I've been thinking about "visability," and it would seem that it involves much more then just "how many seminars did you do last year". The fact is, I can do one seminar a week at my school with my own students, for example, for about 48 weeks; this would mean that I, Paul Janulis, will have 48 seminars that I could claim, with 3-8 of the same attendents each time. Yet, because I have 48 seminars, does this really make me the most visable?
So visability has to be much more involved then "how many seminars did I do last year." How many people attended? I know Dieter often gets large turnouts for events. Better yet, How many "New students" attended? How many write ups did the person get in publications? How commercial were these publications? Little things account for visability also, such as products. Bram Frank for instance has a certian degree of visability with the popularity of his gunting knife in the knife community, for example. And even though Delaney is paying for his ads in black belt magazine, ads still account for visability. All things things can be taken into account for visability, making it impossable to determine who really is "the most visable", unless the award is won by a long shot.
One thing that does account for visability greatly, probably just as much as the amount of seminars per year, would be the variety of locations, and how far they span out. There are people who are very popular for their locations, such as Kelly Worden in Washington State area, and Dieter in Germany. Yet how visable is one really if they are confined to their select location?
So, if we were judging by location, it looks like Datu Hartman is still on top, and Delenay is still in second.
First off, the numbers seem to be not entirely correct to me; some of Delenays listed seminars were not taught by Delenay himself; and some of the WMAA seminars were not taught by Tim Hartman himself. Since we are talking about visability of individual people, it would be only fair to count the ones that they taught at, not just the ones listed on the website.
This changes the numbers, leaving Delany with only 15 seminars that he taught at, and Hartman with 24.
Now, going by these numbers, lets look at how far and vast they were able to travel to spread the art. Jeff was in Texas, Conneticut, Arizona, New Hampshire, Tenessee, Pennsylvania, British Columbia Canada, and England for a total of 8 locations (6 states in the U.S., 1 province in Canada, and England). Tim was in Ontario Canada, Washington D.C., Pennsylvania, New York, Oregon, Sweden, Oklahoma, Michigan, Scandanavia, and Delaware for a total of 11 locations (7 states in the U.S., Washington D.C., a provence in Canada, Sweden, and Scandanavia).
It would seem if we are going by travels, Jeff Delaney is much more visable then I thought. Yet with 9 more seminars taught personally, and 3 more locations, and with the locations spanning all over the U.S. and overseas, it would appear that Hartman has Delaney by almost a long shot!
Your very bored friend,
Paul Janulis
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