I knew this day would come

[terryl965]

Xue these are the things that drive me crazy because they make my Art look soo bad. I can feel your frustration and I have lost soo many students to these belt factories, that they have almost put me out of business. I wish people would be better educated and understand these places are like the YMCA soccer people.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Xue these are the things that drive me crazy because they make my Art look soo bad. I can feel your frustration and I have lost soo many students to these belt factories, that they have almost put me out of business. I wish people would be better educated and understand these places are like the YMCA soccer people.

So Terry... you want to open a school in upstate NY... I have at least one student for you... at least that way I would know she was getting the real deal... and not training at a belt factory.

They are driving me crazy at the moment and likely will for several more months. I will also add when I signed my daughter up the "master" did not appear to like the fact that I trained with Jae Hun Kim many years ago.

But, my daughter got her belt... funny thing... they did not have enough belts at first... they had to look around for an additional yellow belt.... and at the end of the ceremony they found one. I man be wrong here but this hints at they knew long before yesterday how many kids were going to get a yellow belt... but like I said I could be wrong... and I am still angry about the goings on of the past week.

I watched his Black belt teachers train today before the test…. Some have speed… and some have form…. But only one had any power… and that one was not as fast as the rest… but he could kick

Oh did I mention he has 4 year olds in his "Black Belt Club" and that, of course, costs extra... sheesh
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[Xue Sheng]

Thought I’d revisit this and give an update.

It is close to a year and as far as martial arts goes my daughter has learned little. I will say that if the actual owner (Master) teaches the kids do actually work more on kicks and punches but he teaches little and the instructors teaching for him, although they do seem to be good kids they do not teach the kids as much as they play with them, obstacle course, dodge ball etc..

My daughter is now learning how to punch and kick but this is only because I got tired of trying to stay out of the way and started training her myself. I am not going to train her Taijiquan because I do not think she would do it and find it to boring and slow but I have started working with her on the 13 postures (Yang Style) and she is having fun with that so far and if you understand the 13 postures you can defend yourself. Make is natural and fun and I think we are doing ok for now… wish me luck on that one, I am not sure how good I am going to be at this.

I am also seriously considering revisiting Wing Chun because as she gets older this would be more exciting for her that Taijiquan, but if she wants to learn it I will teach her.

At this point it looks like at the end of the contract we are done. She is now also in gymnastics and absolutely loves it so we will go with that for now. She may want to return to MA later, she has talked about Judo but time will tell

 

[Brian R. VanCise]

Hey Xue,

Glad to hear that you are teaching her. Now she will learn how to do things right! However, I do know how difficult it is to teach your own kid's. Very, very challenging at times.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Update

Well, next month the contract is done and so are we.

She had her second belt test today for her orange belt, which she got.

And yes I am her father and likely I am bias but she did her kicks and punches a whole lot better than the kid hat tested with her that was already an orange belt.

Now, this should be her 3rd test but we did not have enough classed checked off for the last test so she missed it (we went to San Diego so she missed to many classes) and this test was a make up test becuase the test came and went and they never told me it was scheduled.

But she got her Orange belt and she is OK with that and she is also OK with stopping nest month.

 

[granfire]

I thought you were going to post pictures of the Chinese Dojang

Well, she has her orange belt! That's not bad at all. (Of course she did better than the other kids....pft)

I suppose you have your reasons for not extending the contract. But there are more fish in the sea, mor things yet to be discovered!

 

[Xue Sheng]

I thought you were going to post pictures of the Chinese Dojang

Well, she has her orange belt! That's not bad at all. (Of course she did better than the other kids....pft)

I suppose you have your reasons for not extending the contract. But there are more fish in the sea, mor things yet to be discovered!

Nope... no pictures of the GUAN!!!!!

As to why we are not renewing; see post #36, #37, #38, #40, and #42.

Also she has really got into Gymnastics, and is now in swim class and wants to go try dance lessons and has piano classes too. And she loves them all, well not so much the swimming but the rest are great s far as she is concerned. There are other TKD schools in the area and maybe we will check them out after school is done in the summer but right now she will be doing too much IMO if we add dance and keep TKD. However I really hope she returns to it and I am still teaching her so hopefully the MA stuff will come back. But now… she wants to learn Saxophone or Flute

 

[granfire]

Nope... no pictures of the GUAN!!!!!

As to why we are not renewing; see post #36, #37, #38, #40, and #42.

Also she has really got into Gymnastics, and is now in swim class and wants to go try dance lessons and has piano classes too. And she loves them all, well not so much the swimming but the rest are great s far as she is concerned. There are other TKD schools in the area and maybe we will check them out after school is done in the summer but right now she will be doing too much IMO if we add dance and keep TKD. However I really hope she returns to it and I am still teaching her so hopefully the MA stuff will come back. But now… she wants to learn Saxophone or Flute

Sounds like she has a full program, ans something has to give anyhow.

Besides, since you got the guan in the basement, Dad can always teach her a new move!

 

[oaktree]

Will you enroll her in another TKD school or something else?
I think teaching Taijiquan or any internal arts is hard for children because it is difficult to grasp even for adults!

I think doing Tuishou,Qin na and some self defense applications with it would add more interest to children.

My experience with teaching children involved Qin na they get a big kick out of throwing a bigger guy to the floor.

Good luck with it let us know how things are going.

 

[granfire]

Maybe she wants to take up photography!


:EG:

 

[Brian R. VanCise]

You know Xue just keep teaching her yourself and if she wants to go back then great! I teach my guy's regularly but do not push it too much if you know what I mean. However, it made me proud the other day when my youngest was wrestling with a local kid and while it was just for fun and horseplay (as boy's do) my son who weights 20 lbs lighter and a good six inches shorter dominated via a nice takedown that I have taught him and then mounted and when his friend turned he got his hooks in and took total control! So those lessons over the years have paid off and he now has serious confidence in himself!

Just try to keep it fun and let her enjoy trying all kinds of things!

 

[Xue Sheng]

Will you enroll her in another TKD school or something else?
I think teaching Taijiquan or any internal arts is hard for children because it is difficult to grasp even for adults!

I think doing Tuishou,Qin na and some self defense applications with it would add more interest to children.

My experience with teaching children involved Qin na they get a big kick out of throwing a bigger guy to the floor.

Good luck with it let us know how things are going.

Qinna... no, not yet. As for another TKD class, maybe later if she wants to go back but right now she is MUCH more into Gymnastics than TKD. A couple of months ago she seemed to be interested ion Judo but right now it does not seem to be high on her priorities

However I have discovered that the 13 postures are kind of cool if you’re little and it involves throwing dad around

 

[Xue Sheng]

You know Xue just keep teaching her yourself and if she wants to go back then great! I teach my guy's regularly but do not push it too much if you know what I mean. However, it made me proud the other day when my youngest was wrestling with a local kid and while it was just for fun and horseplay (as boy's do) my son who weights 20 lbs lighter and a good six inches shorter dominated via a nice takedown that I have taught him and then mounted and when his friend turned he got his hooks in and took total control! So those lessons over the years have paid off and he now has serious confidence in himself!

Just try to keep it fun and let her enjoy trying all kinds of things!

Cool and Thanks Brian

I am currently just working on kicks and punches and started introducing the 13 postures from taiiji. She thinks it is really funny if she kicks or punches the pillow or strike pad out of my hands


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Tried to PM you, your inbox is to full

 

[Xue Sheng]

Well the contract is up and TKD is over at this school and my wife is so ticked off she does not want her to go back to TKD at all because they are all the same to her.

I did however run into the guy that owns the TKD School just down the street from my house and he seems to have an entirely different view that I like. I got my wife to go along with taking our youngest to watch a class and maybe doing the 2 week trial here later this summer if our daughter wants to go and I think it is a good school.

In the mean time she is having fun kicking and punching things out of dad's hands and occasionally punching and kicking the hands as well .

I am still going to train her as long as she enjoys it but I do really want her to get in and work on things with kids around her own age. She is not ready for sparing yet but I think that when she is, if she ever is, it will be good for her to spar with kids around her own age because Dad is likely not going to go all that had on her....she is my little girl after all.