D.Alessandro.B
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Dear Martialtalk Members,
I have a Problem and maybe some of you can help me.
first Some Background Information: I used to do Karate twice a week, from age 8-12. I was very motivated and I loved the Sport, it was great Dojo aswell. (Not a "MCDojo") I had the Purple Belt. With 13, my father told me that i need to decide between continuing learning guitar or continuing with Karate. I chose the Guitar.
With 15 i got sent to a Boarding School. Now i am 18 Years old.
About a Half a year ago i had the interesst to start with a Martial Art again. I searched for different Schools and found two: Krav maga and Taekwondo(and hapkido). I signed up at the Taekwondo school and i was very excited to train again. I now have the yellow belt. But somehow lately i started to realize some things: we don't train much sparring or self defense technics. Just some things that i used to train alot in Karate. But we often do the excersize, where we hit eachother with out belts, appearantly meant as hardening. The instructor shows us moves with full force, so that even some students got injuries sometimes.He mainly focuses on Katas but doesnt explain us how these moves should be transferred into fighting. There are about 4 Students in my age group and 7 Students are between the ages 7 and 13. Sometimes training is more a run around from the younger students than serious training. I started questioning and googled the "symptoms". An there i had it: there were several signs of a Mcdojo... Now a friend of mine and I are thinking about leaving the school and changing to Krav maga.(since there is no other choice of martial art) We went to one trial training and were quite fascinated. The Trainer is Serious and everyone there is over 18 Years old. We did sparring and simulated real life situations. We would like to change but we don't know how to tell that our Instructor.
Do you guys think it would be better to change? How should we tell our Instructor? I'm just new to this Forum so please bear with me. Every kind of answer is very appreciated! Thank you
I have a Problem and maybe some of you can help me.
first Some Background Information: I used to do Karate twice a week, from age 8-12. I was very motivated and I loved the Sport, it was great Dojo aswell. (Not a "MCDojo") I had the Purple Belt. With 13, my father told me that i need to decide between continuing learning guitar or continuing with Karate. I chose the Guitar.
With 15 i got sent to a Boarding School. Now i am 18 Years old.
About a Half a year ago i had the interesst to start with a Martial Art again. I searched for different Schools and found two: Krav maga and Taekwondo(and hapkido). I signed up at the Taekwondo school and i was very excited to train again. I now have the yellow belt. But somehow lately i started to realize some things: we don't train much sparring or self defense technics. Just some things that i used to train alot in Karate. But we often do the excersize, where we hit eachother with out belts, appearantly meant as hardening. The instructor shows us moves with full force, so that even some students got injuries sometimes.He mainly focuses on Katas but doesnt explain us how these moves should be transferred into fighting. There are about 4 Students in my age group and 7 Students are between the ages 7 and 13. Sometimes training is more a run around from the younger students than serious training. I started questioning and googled the "symptoms". An there i had it: there were several signs of a Mcdojo... Now a friend of mine and I are thinking about leaving the school and changing to Krav maga.(since there is no other choice of martial art) We went to one trial training and were quite fascinated. The Trainer is Serious and everyone there is over 18 Years old. We did sparring and simulated real life situations. We would like to change but we don't know how to tell that our Instructor.
Do you guys think it would be better to change? How should we tell our Instructor? I'm just new to this Forum so please bear with me. Every kind of answer is very appreciated! Thank you
