BJJ experts and fanboys?

I get what your asking. I know there is a website that gives you the BJJ lineage, but I cannot remember off the top of my head. Try looking for it through Google.

Gracie lineage matters less and less now. People without the lineage are making big names for themsleves. That is unless your instructor is BSing you about his credentials.

I can verify that lineage as I have met every one of them excepting Helio himself. There are plenty of photos of Razzano with Shepherd, Ferreira, and even Mansur. Shepherd himself is super legit and so is Dax Razzano. Not even close to shady. Probably the cleanest bjj lineage in the area. Shepherd is an American that traveled to Brazil for much of his training, and Dax is his affiliate (Razzano is also a Judo BB FWIW).

I like most people like to be respected as a person and have found that you should also respect others in turn. That also carries over into martial arts I think and there was a great question several weeks ago about people training in a place less than ideal and who is responsible for their substandard training. While it might largely be the instructor's fault there are some out there that still try to do the best they can by and for their students even though they are very much limited in their own training and also the places they have to work out in. One time I was at a national tournament waiting to fight and was seated like I usually was which meant I did not have to fight through the eliminations. There was a new black belt there and it was his first tournament and he was not much physically speaking. He very quickly lost his first fight but stayed around afterwords to watch me and several other nationally ranked fighters fight. He struck up a conversation with me and over the course of about thirty minutes I learned quite allot about Gi gong. He was a pharmacist and had taken the study of that up along with karate. I learned more about Gi gong and some ancient Chinese healing practices in that brief time than the total sum that I already knew. While his martial arts skills were horrible he still had some knowledge of things beyond my own and I think that says and stands for something. Almost everyone has value in some way and sometimes I guess people forget that or forget to look past the obvious. They instead judge someone based on their own thoughts and ideas about things with out considering things beyond that I guess.

The fck are you talkin about?

I don't understand what it is you're asking.

Excuse me, what?