Originally Posted by shaolin-warrior

ksw,
I feel your pain. Make your school better, set the pace, be the exception not the rule. Be like a watch maker, take everything you've learned and dissect it. Put it all back together harder stronger and faster. Make it yours. Set the bar for yourself and be the one person that that everyone else aspires to be like. Your ranks will be earned and deserved. Thats what I love so much about Martial arts, What I've learned is mine and if I was stripped of all my worldly possessions you still couldn't take from me my second degree black belt, because i don't need to tie it on to be one, I trained hard and became one. Lend to the credibility of your school , your teachers and your system, and make peace with the fact that there will always be people who get undeserved promotions and credit where none is due them. Peace.