I have a love/hate relationship with the I-shape forms

[Earl Weiss]

Which is part of why I want to get away from teaching the "correct" way and instead teach what's right for the situation.

I do not understand how doing one excludes the other. Perhaps our different views are colored by our different experience.

 

[HighKick]

I've coached multiple martial arts for over a decade and you think I don't know how different people learn martial arts?

This is such a wild baseless accusation. I can't understand how you even made it. Do you you actually believe that I think this?

Every single TKD school I've been to has done things different. They've taken what they've learned from their TKD Master(s) and from other martial arts and combined them together into their own curriculum. I'm doing the same.

This criticism that I'm somehow breaking some unwritten law by coming up with my own curriculum ignores the fact that every other school comes up with their own curriculum.

This would be like if someone were to try and publish a book and you were to get mad it wasn't a word-for-word copy of The Hobbit. Because that was a good book, why do we need a new one?

To your question of me Yes, I do believe that.

From one negative reply, you went on the offensive. From one elegant reply, you went on a rant trying to prove your strong foundation of experience and knowledge. But from most of what we hear from you on this forum and others, is built on sticks.
You will be TEACHING people. It takes a patience like no other. I believe you have the want-to, but I am not sure it is your passion. Instead, you are one of the many, many people who thought "it would really cool to be a martial arts school owner/instructor" but never actually pulled it off or at least pulled it off well.

I imagine you have been in the 'planning stages' of opening a school since day one of you first training. More than enough time to acquire knowledge.

If you are going to do this, it is past time to do it. I know these are harsh words, but whether you understand it or not, they are what you need to hear.

 

[skribs]

I do not understand how doing one excludes the other. Perhaps our different views are colored by our different experience.

If you're told not to do a piercing side kick because a thrusting side kick is "correct", then you are more likely to think there's something wrong with the piercing side kick.

If I teach one way, and another instructor with a different background and set of experiences teaches a different way, then we could:

• Explain the pros and cons of each version of the technique.
• Describe the situations you would use one version over another.
• Throw the other instructor under the bus as being inferior.

Two of those allow the students to gain understanding of the technique. The third causes the students to lose trust in the material being taught.