I asked this in the original thread, decided to start a new one as a spin off. If someone like Lasu promotes someone to black belt and they later get degrees on the belt from a legit instructor, does that 'cleanse' or validate them? Would the community validate someone promoted to black belt by Lasu who later got a stripe from a legit instructor?

I asked this in the original thread, decided to start a new one as a spin off. If someone like Lasu promotes someone to black belt and they later get degrees on the belt from a legit instructor, does that 'cleanse' or validate them? Would the community validate someone promoted to black belt by Lasu who later got a stripe from a legit instructor?

I don't have much expertise in what black belts should do or who's qualified to be one. What I know is that, if my instructor gave me my blue belt next week and I found out a few months later that he was a fake, I would go to a new instructor, ask them to evaluate my skills, and wear whatever belt they told me to wear---even if it meant putting on a white belt again.

I did exactly that years ago. Fake is an overstatement... but he wasn't legit. I left gave up my blue belt and started new as a two stripe white belt

I like that you put the 2 stripes on that bad boy. Lol. For some reason I'm getting a huge kick out of that right now.

I did exactly that years ago. Fake is an overstatement... but he wasn't legit. I left gave up my blue belt and started new as a two stripe white belt

I asked this in the original thread, decided to start a new one as a spin off. If someone like Lasu promotes someone to black belt and they later get degrees on the belt from a legit instructor, does that 'cleanse' or validate them? Would the community validate someone promoted to black belt by Lasu who later got a stripe from a legit instructor?

I get time served, but isn't time served really only served being on the mats doing actual training.

I asked this in the original thread, decided to start a new one as a spin off. If someone like Lasu promotes someone to black belt and they later get degrees on the belt from a legit instructor, does that 'cleanse' or validate them? Would the community validate someone promoted to black belt by Lasu who later got a stripe from a legit instructor?

Has anyone here ever read Catch Me If You Can? There was a decent film adaptation years ago with Hanks and DiCaprio, but the book was even better. The guy was able to fake being a pilot, a lawyer (he passed the bar), a doctor, and a sociology professor. It's bizarre when fakes fool people but it happens.

What I don’t get: This „Lasu“ guy was affiliated in the past, before falling out with him, with the famous, renowned and very legit coral belt Carlos Machado and got a 2nd degree (and 3rd degree?) on the blackbelt from him. So for sure Carlos Machado checked Lasu‘s performance and teaching skills on the mat, didn’t he? If I was the headcoach of an affiliation and somebody would like to join, I would check the legitimacy (linaege, certifications) and performance/skills.....at least he did some seminars with him I would think. I mean Mestre Edmilson Alves for example, the 8th degree coral belt from the fadda lineage, wrote he checks candidates before they want to switch to his affiliation. Everybody here I think follows my opinion, that Mestre Alves is old school, real and legit as it gets:“.... and it is mandatory to be evaluated and examined and that then if approved he could be part of my team...“ to quote Mestre Alves. Everybody read his statement I think. So if a guy got his blackbelt from „Lasu“, but some years later switched affiliations and gets then officially certified by Mestre Edmilson Alves, cause he evaluated the guy personally on the mat, in would assume he is legit. Performance and skills evaluated by a legit coral belt.

When I am posting sometimes I get this crap and I have to retype the whole post again. What a pain in the ass

I just had to post this from the movie 'The Last Dragon' ... this whole thing reminds me of a bad movie! Who's the master????

When I am posting sometimes I get this crap and I have to retype the whole post again. What a pain in the ass

maybe you are a robot?

I asked this in the original thread, decided to start a new one as a spin off. If someone like Lasu promotes someone to black belt and they later get degrees on the belt from a legit instructor, does that 'cleanse' or validate them? Would the community validate someone promoted to black belt by Lasu who later got a stripe from a legit instructor?

When I am posting sometimes I get this crap and I have to retype the whole post again. What a pain in the ass

Lets face it some affiliations are great and do a lot for their organizations and others are money making scams where the head of the association barely knows the professors under them..