Originally posted by: redstar
Date: March 23, 2014 at 11:50 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/gracie-academy-online-belts.61524/
This was inevitable I guess. BJJ is a victim of its own success and demand.
I have complex feelings about it as an art. I don't like how they re-name age old Japanese techniques & in effect co-opting them.
I know a guy who runs a BJJ dojo, nice fellow, good martial artist.
He opened his school as a brown belt, now he is a black belt & insists on being called "professor".
Both of my Japanese sensei's (jujutsu/judo) who have been practicing longer than this guy is alive, if you called them professor, they would likely laugh.
The MMA community owes a debt of gratitude, or at least acknowledgement of BJJ's importance to a sport we all love.
It is not (like anything else) immune from hucksters looking to cash in.
