So they weren't students...they were instructor trainers. So what? You're so above them that you post their videos and laugh at them? Quite frankly, you're no guru yourself, my friend. Truthfully, you're in no place to ridicule ANYBODY.
Ridicule and laughing at someone are different. Take, for example, how you make me laugh, and yet I do not ridicule you...
You don't seem to comprehend what is so obnoxious about this minority of instructors who've jumped onto the sidemount band-wagon without so much as a courtesy glance at what the community is doing. That there is something ethically wrong, just plain wrong, with offering to teach a subject that you haven't bothered yourself to learn about, or take proper training in.
I don't consider myself any type of guru. That said, I care deeply about the quality of training that I provide. I wish that training to be consistent with the best practices and examples that are available. I hold myself to that yardstick...it motivates me to learn incessantly, to improve, to research, to develop.
I will not, have never, teach something that I have not developed through extensive experience, training and research. I have zero respect for those who do. That lack of respect... that scorn... may betray itself through the naming of a thread. Nonetheless, the educational value of exposing these charlatans for what they are remains worthy.
People can do what they want in their private time. They can post abysmal videos for all their desire. When they start promoting sloppy courses, through such materials... when they start taking people's money.... then the tone changes. It changes substantially. It becomes fraud. It becomes a cynical manipulation of other people's desire to learn and progress.
You may not care about that. You say that's because you wish no ill-will on the internet. I'd believe that, except you seem happy enough to insult, belittle and judge in this thread to you heart's content. That seems like hypocrisy of the highest order, if I may say so.
