[I am pleased that this young man has such blindly loyal and supportive people around him. [/QUOTE]
I have stayed out of this thread untill now because while I know some of the people involved here vaguely, from league, and from tournaments, I really didn't think I had much to add.
Personally I have planned to be supportive towards Kayhon. I know from my own experience that I would not be were I am today, if people in my life had not been willing to give me seconds, thirds and perhaps more chances. I do not consider myself to be "blindly loyal", and object to the charecterization. My own experience is that people are neither all good or all bad, but the thing that makes us all potentially great is that we can learn from our mistakes.
Kayhon has been villified quite abit here. And deserverdly so. The cheating a friend was bad enough, abusing the trust and stealing from people as nice as BDS and the Clantons is downright dispicable.
On the other hand I have observed Kayhon to be a pretty generous person in his own right. Willing to give of his time, share cards, teach my son to build decks. So yes I was genuinely shocked to hear about this. It doesn't jive with the picture I had of Kayhon in my mind. But he is like 18 years old. All of you adults that are condeming the actions of an 18 year old kid, how together were you at that age? I was pretty screwed up. I certainly wasn't spending my time at the local card store helping younger kids to learn to play a TCG.
So am I worried about the influence that Kayhon may have on my son. No. We have discussed this and I have tried to use it as a teaching opertunity. Kayhon is not suppose to be teaching my son values anyway. That is my job as his parent. Yeah I will probably have my guard up a little around Kayhon. But if he is sincere in trying to learn from this and become a better person for it I respect that . I have hit more that one bottom in my own life, and because of that I believe that everyone, no matter how far down we fall, has the potential turn it around and rise above.
I have stayed out of this thread untill now because while I know some of the people involved here vaguely, from league, and from tournaments, I really didn't think I had much to add.
Personally I have planned to be supportive towards Kayhon. I know from my own experience that I would not be were I am today, if people in my life had not been willing to give me seconds, thirds and perhaps more chances. I do not consider myself to be "blindly loyal", and object to the charecterization. My own experience is that people are neither all good or all bad, but the thing that makes us all potentially great is that we can learn from our mistakes.
Kayhon has been villified quite abit here. And deserverdly so. The cheating a friend was bad enough, abusing the trust and stealing from people as nice as BDS and the Clantons is downright dispicable.
On the other hand I have observed Kayhon to be a pretty generous person in his own right. Willing to give of his time, share cards, teach my son to build decks. So yes I was genuinely shocked to hear about this. It doesn't jive with the picture I had of Kayhon in my mind. But he is like 18 years old. All of you adults that are condeming the actions of an 18 year old kid, how together were you at that age? I was pretty screwed up. I certainly wasn't spending my time at the local card store helping younger kids to learn to play a TCG.
So am I worried about the influence that Kayhon may have on my son. No. We have discussed this and I have tried to use it as a teaching opertunity. Kayhon is not suppose to be teaching my son values anyway. That is my job as his parent. Yeah I will probably have my guard up a little around Kayhon. But if he is sincere in trying to learn from this and become a better person for it I respect that . I have hit more that one bottom in my own life, and because of that I believe that everyone, no matter how far down we fall, has the potential turn it around and rise above.