[Tango-L] Qualifying Tango Instructors.

[Clif Davis]

Being in the martial artist camp for a LOOOONNNNGGGG time and now having
been in the dance camp for 20 years, I know both of those concepts. 

Having been privileged(?) to be in Pat Burleson's "bloody Monday" fight
night in the late 60's and early 70's, as a punching dumbie for all the
black and brown belts and then going to some of the other dojos and watching
how the "didn't believe in contact fighting", I know the real from fake
teachers.

Then, finding the same thing in the dance studios where teaching someone
"how to dance" was less important than signing the next contract. Then
having someone come and sit on a "board of judges" to "certify" the
instructors was one of the biggest jokes of the year.

Trying to do this with Tango or any dance is really very insane. 
Just my 3.5RNB.... 

Clif

-----Original Message-----
From: tango-l-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:tango-l-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of
meaning of life
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:06 AM
To: Floyd Baker; Tango-L
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Qualifying Tango Instructors.

lets hope to all things that matter on earth that you are kidding.
 
this sounds like the same crap that the martial artists who can't fight came
up with to propagate their garbage, and to attempt to discredit the "real"
martial artists. the end result is that the politicians make the rules and
run around "promoting themselves and each other"; gluing fancy colored
patches on their uniforms and giving themselves outrageous titles. the
"real" martial artists, who just want to work out, retreat to little dojos
and keep working out and training other "real" martial artist, simply
ignoring the the "wanna be's", because for the most part, they "really don't
matter". all remains well with the world until the rare occasion where the
"real" martial artists end up in conflict with the "wanna be politicians";
the outcome is not so good for the "wanna be's" who then go crawl in a hole,
never to show whats left of their faces again.
 
the dance correlation is what happens when a "real" dancer shows up at some
"wanna be's" class or milonga. suddenly, the students want to know why they
can't "dance like that", and the "wanna be" is exposed as the "fraud" that
they are.
 
be careful what you wish for
 
dance onThe TangonistaSponsered by P.E.T.A. (People Expressing Tango
Attitude)NOTICE - no cats were injured in the making of our music
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