My last post wasn't meant to scare anyone off from testing for black
belt. I posted it to show you that black belt isn't given to
anyone. Well hopefully not anyways. You have to earn it like
anything you do in life. That school isn't a traditional martial
arts school. They don't even bow in before training. It is
designed to fight through everything and don't stop until that
person is out of it. That is street fighting, and what you are
learning is self-defense. There is a big difference between the two
and maybe Mr. Lammon can explain that or maybe he already has.
Anyone can fight through an encounter and come out victorious. It
takes someone with some discipline to know when to defend yourself
and when to preserve your life. Preserving your life calls for
drastic measures and you might have to fight through the encounter
instead of maybe takeing someone to the ground with a armbar and
holding them their until help arrives. It is up to you as the
martial artist to know what to do in each encounter.

Anyways to the other question. I don't believe I'll be teaching at
the dojo. I do check on this board and see what is happening and I
have stopped in once i believe to see how things are going. Good
luck with the training.