 Question, if someone with a disability can't spar full contact, but knows their curriculum and can do everything properly, good question, good, good, good question. This one is also tricky, because it goes back to the belts don't mean anything outside the school. There are people. If someone joins the martial arts for a reason, and most of the time, it's to improve themselves, whether it be, they just want to fight better, they want to be faster they want to live longer and healthier they're trying to rehab from an injury or they want to compete, or they want to be able to protect themselves. Aside from those who do it just as a hobby. There are martial arts in some fashion, to improve themselves, or improve an area of their life. And it's not always about fighting and as we talked about we did this, we did an interview a couple weeks ago with Ian McLeod, a man with a traumatic brain injury, who used a technique to rehab himself and did wonderful, wonderful things and really came a long way. I think that you set your own course, and you have to follow your own milestones and your own goals. And it's not always fighting because not every fight occurs out on the street, not every fight is a self defense against an attacker, sometimes you're defending yourself from time from an injury from yourself. And I think it's up to the instructor to really take, really look at each student as an individual and what their needs are and what their base, their base foundation are coming from is and make a judgment of how they're going to promote. Can someone with a disability achieve a black belt, even though they might not be able to fight a black belt on another system. I think it's okay in certain ways as long as they have persevered and they have pushed themselves and they have accomplished as long as they understand what they're doing. And here's here's interesting too. It's about knowing the curriculum and understanding all the basics and understanding what you're doing and knowing the why. Sometimes in knowing the how but sometimes being able to do it might not be there. So a lot of disabled people that I have seen will modify it. They can't do a particular move or maybe they can't fight a certain way. If they can make modifications or they can show that they can adapt the art to cope with or get by, even that means finding new ways to get out of situations of fighting them. Then have they not have they not learned have they not reached that level of proficiency where they can defend themselves or they can modify the material where they have the same understanding. It goes back to the person who's 80 years old, they might not be able to defend themselves the same way they could before they might not be able to move, but that knowledge is there. Can this person disabled can they teach, you know, it's that's a really hard question. My jujitsu instructor talked about how he had students come in that were missing an arm. Can that person ever fight the same way as a person with two arms. No, but the techniques from modified to do one arm throws. There are exceptions and I don't think anybody should be excluded from martial arts because anyone, especially someone with a disability, who steps into that mat, they get more respect for me. Then people who are fully healthy because they have this extra challenge and you know how much courage and guts it takes for them to get to a point where they meet. They need help, or they're desperate and they want to seek out some improvement and they step on that mat. The person is a brother and sister in that classroom. That person should still be expected to work just as hard as everyone else. They have to work with their instructor and set their goals. They have to understand their own limits. Understanding your limits is a big part of being a martial artist. Again, I'm at a point now, there's stuff I really want to do the stuff I could you, I can't do anymore. I'm not doing the jump spinning stuff anymore. I'm feeling it my knees I have some knee issues, and I've got age related issues. It's happening. I can't accept the fact that there are things I will never be able to do in the martial arts as much as I want to do. A person who's got a disability. I can't even fathom the stuff they're going through because there's stuff, whether it's something they used to be able to do, or it's stuff they've never been able to do. They're facing real challenges and if they step onto that mat or roll onto that mat, or whatever they come into that classroom, and they put in the same work as everyone else. At the end of the day, they can disseminate the information, they can understand it and they can pass on that knowledge and fulfill others lives and touch other people the same way they were touched. Yes, I feel they've earned that rank. It doesn't always come down to how well you can fight in the street or how well you can perform in a tournament. A black belt is not a fighting mechanism. It is not a magic cape that you put on a black belt is a symbol that you have pushed yourself outside of your boundaries. You've broken your boundaries and you've reset them and you've broken and reset them many times and you've now reached an area you're a much better person now than you were when you started. You understand the world now you understand the pieces you know what you have to do. Now the work is really get done and build from there. So do I feel that they should hold belt ranks like everyone else, I do. And I think it needs to be an individual situation just because we all fight different battles. It's all about. It's all about why you train we all have our own fights, not every fights on the asphalt, not every fights in the octagon. We have battles every day in our lives and yes I think the martial arts. And I'm so adamant about this and I'm so passionate about this that's one of the reasons that Zach and I started this channel is that this is a very important message that I think needs to be spread is that. There's so much good in the martial arts just so much garbage out there on YouTube and so much garbage so much hate so much politics so much. Oh look how crappy that is all here's the fake stuff. We've all seen it it's all there. That's not what we want to focus on there's so much good that's overlooked. And I don't care if it's a style that people don't like. But because it works for someone, maybe you don't look at it and think oh that's garbage that's never going to work for me. Okay, what are you doing with it. Are you wanting to ring. Okay, it might not work for you. Because what that person's got a broken back and that that style has now helped them be able to walk again. Should that look be looked down is looked down upon any other art. No. So, no, I have so much respect and we have a lot of viewers who are facing a lot of physical challenges and disabilities and I am very grateful that you are part of our channel because I think that message is even more important when people like that train, because they are setting a better example than the rest of us because they're saying look, I know I have limits I know I've challenges but look, I'm going to do it anyway. So, yes, I do believe that a person who's got a disability who might not be able to fight or spar like a black but would normally that they can still achieve their black belt because they're fighting their own fights their own battles. Thank you so much for asking that question because now you got me all grabbed up in a way there are ways to deal with techniques like standing in their own position. Exactly there's so many ways you can adapt something. Okay, look at look at Superfoot Bill Wallace for example, he is an amazing fighter. He tore his knee up really really bad when he was young to the point and never healed right. Look at his work he's undefeated in his career undefeated and he can only kick with one leg. And what did he do well he understood he couldn't kick with that leg so he adopted all his fighting he adopted a sideways fighting style. And guess what he is really, really good at it. Can he use both legs of both arms like everyone else. No, he's basically down a limb. Has he made up for it. You betcha. Even now I see this guy now I see him in seminars now and he's still a phenomenal martial artist. He's still going to kick you. He's still fast. He still can get you in the head and fascinating you see it coming. So, exactly so there's you just have to, and that's part of that you have to find an adaptation.