Sigma 6 black belt? Huh?

It's pretty offensive to a martial artist that a management qualification provider issues so-called 'black belts' to office workers.
How ridiculous!
They wouldn't dare issue degrees, now would they?

A black belt is a martial arts qualification.
It suggests a comprehension of the basics and indicates stages on the journey towards mastery in combat.

Everyone above the age of 7 probably knows this... Except for the sigma 6 people?

Wearing a black belt or telling people that you possess a black belt, without the necessary (and expected) combat abilities is stupid.

Issuing a martial arts rank - out of context - to management personnel serves only to represent a contradiction in terms, and as such undermines any possibility of credibility for the management qualification.

It's like computer geeks bragging about how good their 'kung fu' is.... try that one on a martial arts instructor.

Why my Hubby can't watch martial arts movies...

Having watched Chuck for 2 seasons now, I can see quite clearly why my Hubby can't watch martial arts action scenes. They make me cringe, and I have no comprehension of Hubby's skill.

Real life self defence is nothing like what goes on in the movies and nothing like I learned in Taekwondo when I passed my black belt. The real thing is very sudden, small, decisive and scary.

There's no fighting as such in what Hubby teaches. The attacker begins to move and suddenly its over. I guess this doesn't look so great on film.

Master/apprentice

My husband occasionally sends out e-mails encouraging students to study harder, explore the tai chi more extensively, read the website and train between lessons. Typically, no one replies.

Hubby is always puzzled why few students really engage with the art and why nobody replies to his e-mails. The answer here is actually quite simple. He's right, and so there is nothing to reply to.

We have succeeded in finding a superior tai chi instructor. Sadly, we are not ourselves superior tai chi students.

Grading...

Made some good progress with my tai chi grading last night... Got about 12 items ticked off. Some really tough bits still to go. If I pass next year, I'll get a brown belt!

Higher expectations from Hubby at that point...