The Secret Grading Game: Why Some People Get Promoted Faster Than Others at 'Black Belt Mills'!
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A fascinating, unfiltered look behind the curtain of specific martial arts schools where the calendar date on your grade card seems to outweigh skill itself. One perspective shared details the tension: follow the prescribed path—and never challenge the instructor—to ensure timely advancement. Conver
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And and there are schools like this where timing grade matters more than anything else and not being on the wrong end of ticking off the gym owner, right? So don't tick off the gym owner. Spend your time in grade and you get your next belt, right? Um I happen to tend to be one who ticks off the gym owner. [laughter] So, you know, so I'm I I'm some sometimes I get promoted a little slower than I I would otherwise, but you know, I I can be vocal and rude. Um, so that just is what it is. And I can tell you from getting the coach against his coach, that doesn't seem to be the case with that guy. you know, he brought a competitor who was really talented at blue belt. So, if that's one of his blue belts and at that time Mike Isertel was one of his brown belt, you know, I really question this whole logic that he is an upper level blue belt. But you could say that if you take the wrong footage of any of us at Brown Black Belt, you could make the claim that we're upper level blue belt. Like on our worst
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