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[sensei8]

Professor Sauer must be an exceptional martial artist with extraordinary skills because I noticed that his rank tenures from 5th Dan to 8th Dan were short; 2000 to 2010. I only mention this, not as a critic, but only as a sign of my deepest respect to him!!

In the Gracie family, Dan ranks are awarded every three years up to 8th degree. From Black to 8th degree black takes about 24 years of continuous training after earning your black belt. It should be noted that any break in training for even a short time, restarts your time. If I were to earn black belt and train for a year after that, then a month off, I would start my training time over again. So, three years from the time I come back from my month off.

He is exceptional. How much so? Watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQWBBVadUIc

Disregard the content and just take notice that you'll see Bryan Mossey teaching Pedro Kali. That's right, Pedro takes Kali in his own school. That's the commitment he has to the arts. An 8TH DEGREE BLACK BELT who has trained with the gracie family all of his life, trains in a class as a beginner. Kali is something Dan Inosanto got him interested in. Dan, on the other hand, tells Pedro all the time about how much he loves BJJ now. This is what you get when true masters get together. They like anything that works.

Thanks for the info!!

A true master of the martial arts!!

[Lupin1]

Here's my instructor's martial arts blog, if anyone wants to read it: http://isshin-concentration.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-12-02T19%3A20%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=7

And here's his youtube channel. There's nothing on there of him, but there a lot of kata performances by our senior students and instructors both recent and older. http://www.youtube.com/user/BushiNoTeIsshinryu My favorite is the most recent one-- Mr. Lee's Nijushiho. I was there when we taped it. He wasn't very happy with it, but I like it.

[JiuJitsuNation]

Correction on previous post: Master Sauer!!

[bushido_man96]

Disregard the content and just take notice that you'll see Bryan Mossey teaching Pedro Kali. That's right, Pedro takes Kali in his own school. That's the commitment he has to the arts. An 8TH DEGREE BLACK BELT who has trained with the gracie family all of his life, trains in a class as a beginner. Kali is something Dan Inosanto got him interested in. Dan, on the other hand, tells Pedro all the time about how much he loves BJJ now. This is what you get when true masters get together. They like anything that works.

Now that is cool. And its not something that is universally accepted. My instructor got onto our senior student, a 5th Degree Master, for taking an Aikido class from a then brown belt teaching it, mentioning that it really didn't look good for a Master Instructor to be taking another MA class from a high brown belt student (who I believe recently received his black belt). Even being a brown belt, I think he must have had 8 years of experience in; it can take a while to rank up in Aikido. Anywho, that's my rant for now.

[bushido_man96]

Seeing as this thread is taking on an all-encompassing nature of instructor introduction, I have decided to move it to Instructor Central.

Thanks.