The writer teaches gun defense to members Russian military. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
I remember some of the words of Sensei Richard Kirkham in his article The Effects Of Ego When Teaching Martial Arts: “Granted some ego is needed in order to teach, but there are those who teach for themselves, and those who teach for their students. In the few cases I’ve seen the god complex in a martial arts instructor, it’s generally been for the instructor. Even one very good combat veteran martial arts instructor whom I personally knew seemed to teach for himself.”