Th3Drizzl3
White Belt
hello,
new here but lurking for a while appreciate the info i have read so far. ill start off with my backround i used to train in the wta under grandmaster Duk Sung Son in ny directly as well as one of his personal graduates later. its been many years for me but i am ready to get back into training now.
first now being in florida im having a very hard time finding anywhere locally who even seems to teach that style, it seems everywhere i look is wtf (well or ata which is a whole other thread). my questions are have any of you formerly wta or itf jumped into wtf and how was it for you? how do you personally feel it was different or the same (if at all) was the training and principles? i visited a couple wtf schools and please know im not knocking wtf at all but these schools did not seem up to par to me compared to how we used to train, what i mean it was more like the students (black belts included) were just going through the motions. we would have never been allowed to train like this....period.
is this more common today from many wtf schools? they also wanted to bring me in as a blue belt vs my wta 2nd dan ranking.
i have read some of the itf schools are similar but can not seem to find any in my area. we either seem to have "mma" schools or wtf ones. there is one other wtf school which does come highly spoken of by people in the area but i know they do the "guaranteed" black belt thing in a certain time (black belt club i think its called) and i was always very against promoting so quickly coming from the wta as many of you know if you have been there they did not just promote based on the amount of classes you attend it took many years (at least coming from Son)
im okay with starting a bit lower then i was but im looking for a very aggressive class that has discipline and where you go to train not to bs with friends and chat on the phone etc during class (i saw this at one school i was pretty surprised, two of the black belt girls were in the corner braiding each others hair?????) maybe i have not seen a good wtf school but so far im not at all impressed.
sorry for a long first post but being a bit frustrated im hoping someone can help me out here.
thank you for your time and for taking time to read my long post. and i hope i did not confuse or insult anyone i did not mean to do either.
new here but lurking for a while appreciate the info i have read so far. ill start off with my backround i used to train in the wta under grandmaster Duk Sung Son in ny directly as well as one of his personal graduates later. its been many years for me but i am ready to get back into training now.
first now being in florida im having a very hard time finding anywhere locally who even seems to teach that style, it seems everywhere i look is wtf (well or ata which is a whole other thread). my questions are have any of you formerly wta or itf jumped into wtf and how was it for you? how do you personally feel it was different or the same (if at all) was the training and principles? i visited a couple wtf schools and please know im not knocking wtf at all but these schools did not seem up to par to me compared to how we used to train, what i mean it was more like the students (black belts included) were just going through the motions. we would have never been allowed to train like this....period.
is this more common today from many wtf schools? they also wanted to bring me in as a blue belt vs my wta 2nd dan ranking.
i have read some of the itf schools are similar but can not seem to find any in my area. we either seem to have "mma" schools or wtf ones. there is one other wtf school which does come highly spoken of by people in the area but i know they do the "guaranteed" black belt thing in a certain time (black belt club i think its called) and i was always very against promoting so quickly coming from the wta as many of you know if you have been there they did not just promote based on the amount of classes you attend it took many years (at least coming from Son)
im okay with starting a bit lower then i was but im looking for a very aggressive class that has discipline and where you go to train not to bs with friends and chat on the phone etc during class (i saw this at one school i was pretty surprised, two of the black belt girls were in the corner braiding each others hair?????) maybe i have not seen a good wtf school but so far im not at all impressed.
sorry for a long first post but being a bit frustrated im hoping someone can help me out here.
thank you for your time and for taking time to read my long post. and i hope i did not confuse or insult anyone i did not mean to do either.
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