RBSD Instructors VS. TMA Instructors and Contracts

 If you get the chance, read this newsletter article from the mailing list:
 
http://appliedmartialartstraining.com/content/fight-or-flight-self-defen...
 
For the record, we have equal respect for TMA and RBSD.  I personally am training in Japanese Jiujitsu, Brazilian JiuJitsu, and Shito-Ryu Karate.  All of those are traditional martial arts.  I am also training in Grand Master Southard's reality based self defense system, which, obviously, is a RBSD deal.  I love them all.  Not completely equally, but close.  
 
Also for the record, we believe good contracts are good and bad contracts are bad.  Applied Martial Arts does not incorporate contracts because we just don't want to.  We want people to choose whether martial arts is a priority to them without making them commit to a legally binding contract.  As said in the newsletter, martial arts IS NOT a priority to most people like marriage, academia, and parenthood.  Therefore, contracts that bind them (and send them to collection agencies if they don't pay) seem awfully immoral and unethical.  However, as also stated in my last response, there can be good contracts with good intentions that still let people breathe. 
 
--Patrick Asay