The only reason the instructors won't make a fuss about a black belt not being diligent (ie: late for class, half asses drills, pisses all over the fucking place, etc) is because hand-holding stops at black belt. If you still don't have the discipline and work ethic to behave as if you were being watched, you don't deserve your belt.
It also depends on whether you are part of a team or not, BB or not, if you are under a competitive team you are going to be abused. Does hand holding stops in boxing when you become ranked? Fuck no, it becomes more personal and harder.
Essentially, as a black belt, it is now your own responsibility to be disciplined and work hard. You are now a representative of your school - when you show up late and half-ass the drills, you're showing the world that your school taught you to be that way.
Exactly, but it also means that, in some scenarios, you already know the pain to get there, and that you wont slack off unless you have to.
Basically the difference between slacking because you are a pussy and slacking because you have shitty conditioning.
Showing up late is disrespectful no matter the belt color.
Being lazy during exercises as a black belt is still being lazy.
You're a grown man, you shouldn't have to ask someone to go to the bathroom.
As a BB you should be setting an example, not being a turd.
This, except the bathroom part, sometimes these breaks really disrupt the class, you are not going to the bathroom on the middle of a soccer game do you?
Wait until the exercise is over then tell the head of class, then go.
his is all true. If you watch warm ups, the intensity dies as you move up the belt ranks. Watch jumping jacks...best example. White belts are killing it, arms and legs straight out, both sides, lot of motion. Blue belts are pretty close, but their arms are bent and they don't throw their legs out as far. Purple belts have very bent arms, and basically jump up and down in place. Brown belts hop from foot to foot and sort of throw their hands up from the elbows like they're doing the wave. Black belts watch.
Or follow the example of the greats, the higher the rank, the harder they work to maintain that rank gap.
Same in Judo. Black belts get a lot of leeway. I think the idea is that a lower belt is a burden but a black belt is an asset, whether they explicitly teach or not. I enjoy the perks. Though if you have to go to the bathroom, at my club, you just go. Come on, we're all adults here.
No, they dont. Unless its run as a bussiness.
Usually these perks are reserved for the injury ridden veteran that its not competing.
The kind of school in which the advanced students are the laziest is the kind of school to run from.
At all the best schools, the advanced students are working the hardest. Now sometimes people get older, injured, etc., but that is completely distinct from just being lazy.
Exactly.
I always figured it's because by this point you should know WTF you're doing
Yes, that's why professional and olympic athletes dont have coaches, they just train on their own.
how to warm yourself up, and what you need to do to show-up ready to train. Where I train, the advanced classes usually don't have any kind of warmup at all. I prefer it that way, since most group warmup activities are pretty useless anyways and remind me of jr.high gym class.
Or maybe you are simply a bunch of lazy guys with no intent of achieving anything memorable in the grand scheme of things.
All high performance sports have warmups.
Plus, there's only so much class time. I think it's reasonable to expect the more advanced practitioners to be ready to go when class starts, and not need to do something as asinine as group break-falls or jumping-jacks...
You can only learn so much, up to a point is a simple matter of repetitions, a lot of warmups consists on specific drills that are helpful to your sport.
Sure you may not see the point on the 30 mins (no break allowed, no dropping your neck) of shrimping that predated every newaza class of my competitive team, but sure as fuck was it hard to pin people in our team. And sure as hell having to pin these guys made my pinning game good.
You can triain as technical as you want, if you train with lazy fucks, you will develop lazy BJJ.
