azmyth
Orange Belt
- Joined
- Aug 22, 2007
- Messages
- 96
- Reaction score
- 4
- martial art is the "creation" of the instructor. comprised of bits and pieces of styles he threw together. granted he performs all the moves like he knows what he's doing.
- "Master" status, with only a 2nd degree black belt in TKD but seminar degrees in tons of other arts.
- instructor curses in class.
- instructor tells his students with previous MA experience that we need to forget everything we have learned, and focus only on his art.
- weirdly enough, the kicks we perform are all directly pulled from the art the students with previous experience came from.
- curriculum is sporadic. There is no rhyme nor reason for anything. silly ideas that are passed off as training. ie.. hitting balloons with a stick to see if you can pop it.
- all sorts of charges and extra fees for gear. Usually gear that is only used once in a blue moon.
- students required to wear belts in non normal way, that has nothing to do with this particular art.
- even though rules say otherwise, students are allowed to wear socks onto the floor.. dirty ones at that.
- school preaches that we should use fluid movements, and stay away from linear stiff movements.. yet one of our forms is a shotokan form.. one of the most stiff martial arts there is.
- testing is done in class, belts are ordered with personal embroidering before the test actually takes place.
- overexhorbatant number of belts
- instructor doesn't want students to do anything he cannot do. If he cannot kick above the knee, he doesn't want you to.
- stretching is an after thought.
- instructor gets too personal with students, showing favoritism to certain students. If a student who has previous experience joins.. he gives that person rank in his system. Even though he will preach later on to forget everything thing you learned in that art.
- Students don't know half of the required material needed for testing when the time comes, instructor teaches it all in one day and expects student to know it.
there's more.. but I could be here all day.
- "Master" status, with only a 2nd degree black belt in TKD but seminar degrees in tons of other arts.
- instructor curses in class.
- instructor tells his students with previous MA experience that we need to forget everything we have learned, and focus only on his art.
- weirdly enough, the kicks we perform are all directly pulled from the art the students with previous experience came from.
- curriculum is sporadic. There is no rhyme nor reason for anything. silly ideas that are passed off as training. ie.. hitting balloons with a stick to see if you can pop it.
- all sorts of charges and extra fees for gear. Usually gear that is only used once in a blue moon.
- students required to wear belts in non normal way, that has nothing to do with this particular art.
- even though rules say otherwise, students are allowed to wear socks onto the floor.. dirty ones at that.
- school preaches that we should use fluid movements, and stay away from linear stiff movements.. yet one of our forms is a shotokan form.. one of the most stiff martial arts there is.
- testing is done in class, belts are ordered with personal embroidering before the test actually takes place.
- overexhorbatant number of belts
- instructor doesn't want students to do anything he cannot do. If he cannot kick above the knee, he doesn't want you to.
- stretching is an after thought.
- instructor gets too personal with students, showing favoritism to certain students. If a student who has previous experience joins.. he gives that person rank in his system. Even though he will preach later on to forget everything thing you learned in that art.
- Students don't know half of the required material needed for testing when the time comes, instructor teaches it all in one day and expects student to know it.
there's more.. but I could be here all day.
