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**ensuppono** · 11-17-2009, 03:04 PM

So because a person is imperfect, they have not improved? Your logic is faulty. Without knowing where a person came from, you have no way to judge how far they have come. I could use the same sort of logic to dismiss the technical aspects of kendo, because after over 25 years of kendo, I still have a lot of trouble hitting my sensei's men. I must have been wasting my time...
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True, I have no idea what someone's background is like, but over the past 16 years I have witnessed:

Instructors who participate in extra martial affairs
Instructors who engage in relations with underage students
Instructors with substance dependency problems
Instructors who have sold rank for money
Instructors who have embezzled club money (or engaged in questionable tax practices)
Instructors who have surrounded themselves with sycophants
Instructors who have verbally harassed students
Instructors who have repeatedly inflicted more pain than is necessary

Many of these people have excellent technical ability and can teach quite well. Since the premise of budo is supposedly self improvement, I would expect someone after a lifetime of budo practice to statistically be a better person than the average person. Perhaps "faulty" people are drawn to budo and see it as a means to fix those faults, but I am still wondering where these "better" people are.

11-17-2009, 03:04 PM	#38
ensuppono Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 386 Senior Member	So because a person is imperfect, they have not improved? Your logic is faulty. Without knowing where a person came from, you have no way to judge how far they have come. I could use the same sort of logic to dismiss the technical aspects of kendo, because after over 25 years of kendo, I still have a lot of trouble hitting my sensei's men. I must have been wasting my time... . True, I have no idea what someone's background is like, but over the past 16 years I have witnessed: Instructors who participate in extra martial affairs Instructors who engage in relations with underage students Instructors with substance dependency problems Instructors who have sold rank for money Instructors who have embezzled club money (or engaged in questionable tax practices) Instructors who have surrounded themselves with sycophants Instructors who have verbally harassed students Instructors who have repeatedly inflicted more pain than is necessary Many of these people have excellent technical ability and can teach quite well. Since the premise of budo is supposedly self improvement, I would expect someone after a lifetime of budo practice to statistically be a better person than the average person. Perhaps "faulty" people are drawn to budo and see it as a means to fix those faults, but I am still wondering where these "better" people are.
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