Someone please clear this up for me...?
After having a look at several threads on the board I noticed a lot of disagreement about schools franchising. Even to the degree of someone saying this:
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A lot of people are not all that intelligent. Do you know where all the money is at in MA? It isn't with the good instructors,
So level it for me. I take it to be a good instructor you've got to be a little Mr Miyagi clone and only teach from the backyard? If I decide to open a martial arts center and give my students the best possible training equipment, environment, 1st aid, and hands on teaching am I somehow a "lesser" martial artist because I run it as a business? I have trained in about 3 of these backyard/school hall/surf club on weekend places and while it was fun it has nothing compared to the place I train now, which is fully equipped to cater to all my training needs.
This is a half rant, half serious question. Why is it that the image of the business martial artist is lumped with the McDojo people? Are we really that big a victim of 60's-90's martial arts movies where the little old man teaches the single backyard student to defeat the entire evil commercial martial art school? Is there a reason for this dislike of turning your love into something you do for a living as well other than the desire to conform to a Hollywood eastern stereotype?
You tell me! :confused: