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Jim Tindell
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About a year or so ago, a man moved into the area. He was from Minnesota, and trained to black belt in ITF Taekwondo. We are a WTF-based dojang. My head instructor, who will soon be a 4th dan, works a lot of oddball hours (he's a police officer), so he does not make it to class very often. The ITF guy is in his mid-30s. When my instructor is away, he depends on us to teach class, which we are more than happy to do.
Mr. Brian (ITF guy) is a really great guy. He's very exceptional in his art, and a great teacher. The only problem I have, is that he is starting to bring some ITF material into our WTF school. He's using slightly different terminology, and discusses his ITF forms to our students. We are the same rank (along with another 1st dan who is my age), but since Mr. Brian is so much older than us, the students are more willing to learn from his instruction rather than our's. That is respectable from my viewpoint; we have a lot of older adult students in the class, and I'm sure they would rather learn material from someone their age instead of some high school kids.
It just makes me weary during class. I am very passionate about our school's history in the WTF, and seeing this new ITF stuff makes me feel nervous about where class will be headed in the future when I end up moving away for college, and he is still there teaching. I do not want to sound disrespectful and talk with him about it, I'm just not that much of a straight-forward person when it comes to talking with adults. Any advice as to what I should do?
Mr. Brian (ITF guy) is a really great guy. He's very exceptional in his art, and a great teacher. The only problem I have, is that he is starting to bring some ITF material into our WTF school. He's using slightly different terminology, and discusses his ITF forms to our students. We are the same rank (along with another 1st dan who is my age), but since Mr. Brian is so much older than us, the students are more willing to learn from his instruction rather than our's. That is respectable from my viewpoint; we have a lot of older adult students in the class, and I'm sure they would rather learn material from someone their age instead of some high school kids.
It just makes me weary during class. I am very passionate about our school's history in the WTF, and seeing this new ITF stuff makes me feel nervous about where class will be headed in the future when I end up moving away for college, and he is still there teaching. I do not want to sound disrespectful and talk with him about it, I'm just not that much of a straight-forward person when it comes to talking with adults. Any advice as to what I should do?