I agree with you happydud.

Attract is not the right word. You're right people who don't know any better will just jump in where they can.

The point I was trying to make was pretty much summed up in the rest of your post. I was trying to say that there tends to be a natural weeding out where those who sincerely care about the training will continue to educate themselves regardless of where they started (eventually moving on to a better instructor) and those that are knuckleheads will just stick with the knucklehead instructor and won't bother trying to evolve.

To bring things back to martial arts; A lot of instructors out there are terrible about how they coach sparring. Regardless of the amount of technique shown in class, once it's time to go live, the reigns are basically removed and it's a free for all/ "survival of the fittest" attitude. The idea here being to gut it out and if you "can't hang" go train somewhere else. The people who you find in these places who stick around are the knuckleheads. They basically chase off the hardworking sincere students or hurt them so that they don't come back. The saddest part being that the ones who get chased off are the ones who most need the instruction as opposed to the thick headed natural fighters. To my experience, they also become the most skilled due to their patience and maturity in their approach to training. These are the people I prefer to work with. Sometimes you can get a knucklehead who will change and I try to help be a catalyst for that, but never at the expense of the others. Most of the time the knuckleheads  don't stick around as they don't find what they're really looking for (an outlet to victimize people or cover their fear).

Make sense?

Jerry