Paulie Zink?

[47MartialMan]

I think it is an american thing with all these commercial MMA schools. I myself would rather study at a dojo where the art itself is the main focus, not making money.

 

But every time one pays for lessons, ranking, supplies, another makes money.

[Nick_UKWC]

Yes but are they doing just to make the money, or are they teaching to share the art? the fact that some company making focus pads or whatever happens to get a few quid in the process seems neither here nor there.

[Drunken Monkey]

"But every time one pays for lessons, ranking, supplies, another makes money."

 

can you say this with 100% certainty?

[47MartialMan]

"But every time one pays for lessons, ranking, supplies, another makes money."

 

can you say this with 100% certainty?

 

Rephrase, ye of tecnicality seeker:

 

But IN MANY CASES, one pays for lessons, ranking, supplies, another makes money."

[Drunken Monkey]

"But IN MANY CASES, one pays for lessons, ranking, supplies, another makes money"

 

so you're saing that this isn't always the case?

 

doesn't that mean that the statement isn't that valid?

[Nick_UKWC]

I don't think it was valid in the first place without a context to frame it in.

 

My Sifu teaches full time, it is his income. Is he a genuinely skilled martial artist and teacher or another money grabbing McDojo operator?

 

You can't say because you don't know him, just like that statement can't be qualified without context. You could call it stating the obvious