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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 852845" data-attributes="member: 5171">Rav: D'oh!  I have now officially been labeled a troll.  And if you were calling me a smartass, you really have nothing to worry about, offensewise.  Unless Eric's Grandma doesn't like the term.LGod: Sorry to misunderstand you on the sympathy stuff.  My bad.As for asking about your school, I really wasn't.  I thought that I had gotten a pretty good idea of your training level and type of school from your posts.  Hearing that you're at a school that prestigious was genuinely neat.  One of the things that I sometimes feel bummed about is the fact that my school is somewhat muddled in terms of where our stuff came from.  It's not that the teachers don't know, mind you -- it's just a whole bunch of degrees of separation, so that if someone asks me anything more in-depth than "What style in general?", I have to give a darn speech.I mean, for practical street purposes, having a good school is more important than having a historically understandable school, but having a historically understandable school makes it more likely that you'll have a good school. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />As for:Right, then.  With this, I completely and utterly agree.  And I think I see the source of our disagreement, in fact.  You use "sparring and katas" to identify schools like that.  I use "tournament school" -- that is, if the school is primarily interested in getting its students really really good at tournament sparring, tournament katas, tournament board-breaking, or whatever, then it's really unlikely that it's gonna help you much on the street. I really understood your earlier posts to mean that you thought that all schools that had katas were useless.  Now that I know that you mean "tournament schools" instead of "all schools with katas", I can completely back up your statement.'Cause my school teaches katas, and we do sparring, but the school doesn't do tournaments.  Some individual students want to do tournaments, and the teachers are happy to give them some pointers that don't work on the street but might look cool in a tournament kata or a sparring competition -- but that stuff happens outside of the regular lessons.  Nobody at our school gets promoted for putting on a purple gi with gold trim and doing one-handed cartwheels with a flaming katana while Brittney Spears blares in the background.In fact, now that I've just visualized that particular scenario, no one anywhere should be promoted for that.So -- glad we kept talking.  Now that I understand your position, I pretty much agree with you.  -Tacky</blockquote>

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