martialartsnerd
Orange Belt
Is that always true? It doesn’t seem to fit the experience in JR’s post. In all my years, I brought two people into my instructor’s school - both girlfriends (one now my wife). That’s not much benefit over so many years.
Yeah, you raise a good point. Sometimes, even your most dedicated students would be absolutely subpar brand ambassadors. I can see them being GREAT brand ambassadors in a competitive circuit if they dominate the competition, and perhaps as assistant instructors, but I myself haven't been able to see this in action so apparently. In fact, the most dedicated martial artists can slip under people's radars and people won't even know that they're talking to someone who's trained in a certain art, in a certain school, under a certain instructor.