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Welcome!
If you're here, you are a current member or an alumni of the Ultimate Black Belt Test. Either way, you are a member of a VERY elite and special group. The primary objective of our collective effort --is to bring dignified change to the martial arts world...and to THE world, by treating our position as martial arts teachers and "master's-in-training" as something very important and duty laden.
Your own physical training is paramount to this effort. If you do not train; if you are not in good shape; if you don't discipline yourself to actually practice the martial arts, intensely --then you weaken our position as change-makers.
Second, if you do not carefully monitor your diet --you are living a lie. Mastery is more than putting on a uniform and having a title. If you can't control your mouth, what are you in control of? Eat for health -and do not let your diet be an obstacle to being a role model for other teachers -and all people.
Third, your mental and spiritual PRACTICES dictate your clarity of thinking and resourcefulness. NOTE: The last sentence represents the most significant difference in what we are doing -and the jargon promoted by most of the "martial arts industry." They have not yet come to a place of THAT kind of accountability or quality of thinking. It's our job to lead the industry there.
Finally (and of course, this is only the beginning), I hold "master teachers" in very high esteem, I have the highest expectations for your behavior, your involvement, and your commitment to doing work that speaks of our potential to make change, to bring improvement to the industry -and to the world.
This may, at times, make you uncomfortable. You can thank me later.
Tom Callos
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