That seems to come close to the matter.
Seems the organization has taken to lighten the study load for the students bymaking sparring more of an optional thing, putting more emphasis on - well, I don't know. But Kisado is the name of the new flavor.
I was hoping it had somewhat of a more solid foundation.
If they're espousing some sort of principle, then yes, the Korean characters, and the Hanja (Chinese characters) used do matter or else they're just picking a random cool-sounding (to them) word, that makes zero sense in context. That might be what's happening.
Your description of what they're doing sounds terrible.