Exactly. By not naming the coach, you're helping ensure that only your side of the story gets presented here. That's perfectly fine, but it also makes me suspect there may be more to the story that you don't want to come out.

The e-mail conversation in the original post -- was that a summary or verbatim quotes?

In hindsight, it might have been better if I posted this as a complete hypothetical - as I'm not anonymous online. Probably would have been a better idea.

Again - I've been honest with how everything went down between me and them. I don't have anything to hide - but at the same time - I'm not a big fan of the whole "I'm just going to take a dump all over this guy and get into an internet fight with him" type of thing. I just presented my side of the story - did everything I could think of doing to keep the other side (the coach) out of it without naming them in order to get feedback on my situation. Was I pissed when I posted it? Absolutely. Am I still pissed? Of course. Do I reeeeeeeaaaaaalllly want to just drop an A bomb and post the emails and call them out? Yes - I do. Absolutely, I do. But I also understand that if I do that, it would cause even more drama than this has already caused (which I didn't intend). I don't believe for one second that it would cause anything for me (I can't think of anything I've done specifically wrong that would entail this situation from happening - and trust me, I've thought of it) but I do think naming them would cause (somewhat) irreparable harm to them which would in turn hurt other people who had nothing to do with this.

This is one of the rare instances where I'm not doing this:



Again, I'm not wanting people to support me or pat me on the back for this - I just thought it was a drastically fucked up situation and thought I'd get thoughts on it. If people disagree that it's fucked up - I'm ok with that too.


And I have a double stroller because I'm going to be having another kid next year. Wife's decision :p lol but I have found that you can fit a bunch of stuff in a double with one kid - so that's pretty sweet too. but the thing is fucking HUGE.

Again - all the companies/groups in my signature are people who I work with (mostly in exchange for product although some are just teams I'm on).

I ride a Kestrel Bike that I paid for and love. but it's not in my signature and I don't do any blog posts on the bike. Why? Because there's no need for me to - I've paid for the bike. Same with my wheels, etc. Now, if Kestrel asked me "Hey - we heard you're happy with the bike you bought from us - can you do a blog post on it for us to feature?" - then I probably would.

Same thing applies to the coaching service I was using. *I* look at it as a product I was buying (although there was a client/coach relationship as well) - not as a "they're doing me a favor and I should return it even though I'm paying them money."

Complete summary and broken down. It gets the basic gist of it only.

I'm not copy/pasting or putting up the emails.

Again - my intention isn't to "out a coach" or anything - it was just to get feedback on the situation.

Not directed at you ( I think formatting may have given you that impression)
I meant this coach was exhibit A - displaying a lack of professionalism

You're over thinking this. For whatever reason, your coach thought it was in their best interest to sever the relationship. If you don't get your money refunded, then you've got a real issue on your hands.

Now stop procrastinating and go train. Focus your energy on something important, like the entertainment of anonymous people on a web forum...

You have taken the high road - nothing ever wrong with that. No reason to ever name the coach (I know i will get blasted for writing that and taking away everyone's fun).

Also coach sounds like a douche - although he may have his own valid reasons for the decision - why not call and ask?

Something doesn't add up here.

1. Based on the OP, the coach wants more clients.

2. Coach is upset since you don't facilitate #1.

3. Coach fires you because of #2.

4. Coach now has one less client.

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6. Profit!

 
without naming names - is your former coach in this picture? - yes or no.

Tarabay or the gorilla? Surginglamb already said there was no connection between his coach and BSR..

Who was in the gorilla suit again? I don't remember.

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"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

FTW!!!

"It's not you, it's me."

Translation:

"I'm sick of dealing with your shit." In this case, the exact translation is "Dealing with you is not worth what you are paying me."

Seems like he/she should have finished out the year, but we only know half the story.

Now I'm in total agreement that the coach wasn't clear about what he expected in the client/coach relationship. But you my friend obviously are unaware of how the Slowtwitch relationship works. You post a thread like this
http://forum.slowtwitch.com/...your_help!_P5014709/

And you beg for likes so you can be part of some team for discounts whatever. Guess what, now is the time to pay the community back. Start naming names or maybe one of the mods can fire you.

haha. I'm not shameless in admitting that I came here as a source to help me get on that team (still a bit miffed at the whole process - but it worked out).

That said - I did giveaway one of the shoes I received from that to a slowtwitcher - so I have to get sooooooooooooooome bonus points for that.

I'm not outting the guy - I've already gone over the whys in this thread.

Or maybe he's in this picture?

Come on, you know the real reason. You are just too manly after punching the guy for blowing smoke in your kids face. Your alpha maleness was intimidating him. Trust me, I get that a lot. ;)

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Sorry didnt read the entire thread but if you liked him and were having success why didnt you just offer to make a better effort at promoting his services to remain a client?

Time to end this drama..
I am the coach he’s referring to and who wrote the emails, and I've kept this professional the entire time. The situation as “Surfing Lamb” writes is not even close to what actually happened. He'll definitely get a refund for services not rendered. I’m glad he was able to summarize my emails and make me look like an idiot by not including ALL of the information. This is not the full story, but nothing positive can come from arguing online. Clearly since I made this account just to respond I prefer that my name/organization doesn't get negative publicity from this, but the bottom line is that if you don’t follow your coaches advice you can’t be upset when you get let go.
That’s all I’m posting about this situation. It’s over.

Over??? was it over when the germans bombed pearl harbor???

methinks it's just getting started.

oh, and re the bold.....

you know, really, (other than it being Friday afternoon and some folks are bored (I'm eating lunch) and wanting entertainment and even then sorry charlie) you have no obligation to name anyone and i really have to give you kudos for standing your ground and taking the mature approach. your OP was a true WTF in my head, so yeah, right out of left field and so very strange unless this guy has So Much Money he simply MUST get rid of it or has no concept of how to grow his business but even then super WTF.

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Umm what?