Yojimbo -> RE: I'm very sorry but I have to ask about someone you don't like (Mar. 3 2012 18:06:26)
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ORIGINAL: kudo Yojimbo, just 5 mins ago I un-friended and blocked your prof on facebook. I went from neutral towards him to completely against that con-artist! why? my online experience with him so far was nuetral (i talked about it before) well everything I have been reading/hearing so far was people's opinion of him, that includes people who met him and people who never met him.however, all the people who met him that I know (except you and another guy i know) are not guitarists. so what he does in his life (which i know about), outside his guitar business is different. so until this point, I did not read anything truly negative that comes from the mouth of one of his face to face students who had a first hand experience with him so what changed my mind? his poor ex-student spoke the truth of Ruben on a spanish flamenco forum of all the cheating that happened and even showed recent copy/paste emails with him. things went up as serious taking legal action. all this stuff happened very recently! the only way for his student to get revenge was to tell the world of what happened. you have to learn from the first hand experience of others, theres solid evidence in what he said! If you choose to continue taking lessons with him and all that, its your choice, but I really wonder how far you will go in flamenco after taking lessons with him. not to mention that you never showed us a video of your playing. im not trying to offend you or anything. I dont know good you are and im not judging your playing. another first hand experience here is Rumbaking, who took lessons from Ruben and then took lessons with Ricardo. just look at how much his playing has improved (I was acually impressed when I saw his latest video) and how much more he benefited from lessons with Ricardo. maybe you have to really think about how well you are doing and how much you are learning from Ruben, and forget about trying to defend Ruben for now [;)] I can't comment on what that student's issue is - all I can say is that I don't have anything similar from my end. You are, of course, entitled to friend or un-friend whomever you like. As I said before, it's the principle that bothers me - I just don't think that one should post derogatory messages about other people, regardless of who it is. As to my playing, I would like to post something but I'm very much a beginner and I don't see the point. I already know I need lots of work. As to my choice in teachers, I'm ok with my current choice for now but I have been considering switching to try someone different. There's a guy in Toronto where I live who I believe is pretty good and at some point in the not too distant future I'll be switching.
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