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No matter the location of the tournament? So if it is across the country, you pay out of yoru own pocket to go and coach your students? If that is the case, is there a minimum of students for you to go and coach? As a small school owner, I would find it very difficult to foot a...

How do you all separate when you have multiple coaches? Coaches have different levels of experiences and parents know this. The more advanced the student, the higher the priority to receive more talented coaching? Or the student who has been at your school the longest? Just curious. One more...

And now that I think about it, unless they use a different room at the convention center, there is no way to fit that many (more than 7 or 8). I don't know if the room they used for Qualifiers/Team Trials can get bigger or not. I hope so. Does anyone know if they have weapons/board breaking...

Yep no walking... New update, had a bone density exam this week, turns out one dr says its a stress fracture, the other says its an inflammation of the sheath that covers the bone. Good thing is treatment is the same: he took me off the orthopedic inserts, no kicking, jumping, or bouncing. Use...

That makes sense. Last year, I went to AAU nationals, so I don't remember. I do remember US Open only had like 8 (I think) in Vegas, New Orleans, and Florida.

I made the $2000 comment and I wasn't specific enough, 2000 was a random number I came up with to include the cost of travel/expenses plus the fees to test. You had to pay for each dan tested, plus I believe (correct me if I am worng) a fee to the USAT for every Dan tested. Our 1st Dan black...

We will be there, taking 5 people to fight. 3 days of a tournament can be very draining, I can't imagine 5!! We have people fighting everyday except for Fri and Sat. I was there for Qualifiers/Team Trials in April. Nice venue, but one of the rings (if they set it up the same) is very far...

FYI, In order to progress you have the wait your current Dan rank in years. If you are 6th going to 7th, you have to wait 6 years (plus meet the age qualification). I am guessing that your Karate instructor also does TaeKwonDo if he has his 6th Dan KKW?

Lol, yeah I bet ifyou ask those people if they have their KKW, my guess is that they don't :). In our city there are about 8 Olympic Style TKD schools. None of their "6th Dan" instructors have their KKW. I guess that half of those don't even know what KKW is.

I reread your post, and much of the resentment/frustration has to do with USAT as an organization and KKW as the gold standard for Olympic Style TKD. There is a lot of history about what having a KKW certificate means and the makeup of the USAT. As you stated that you are not familiar with...

IMHO it matters when you should have your 4th KKW, and don't and because of that, can't offer that opportunity (giving KKW) to others (if you own a school and test someone for black belt). So I think that in those times Skip Rank is valid. Just rushing into a higher dan because one feels...

Lol, when people pass solely because of their ethnicity, you are right, there are going to be people that are upset. When people pass without testing, people are going to be upset. People will be upset when they spend over $2000 to take a test and are told they didn't pass to a the degree they...

1). Have you recieved your certificates yet? No 2). Did you pass? 1 (applied 1st to 3rd) no, 1 (applied 1st to 5th) yes, but got 4th 3). For those who were skipping, Did you get the rank you were applying for? no applied from 1st to 5th (long story) and got 4th 4). Have you heard anything (...

First of all I wanted to say, that we had a tester go from from 1st to 5th and received 4th. We called theh USAT and we were told by the Dan Office, that noone that applied for a skip dan got what they asked for, they received one less. That is what we were told. I have not heard anyone confirm...

Quick update, went to the doctor, and i have a stress fracture in my right shin, and my left isn't too far behind. No exercise (even walking) for 2 months. I was told that I have slight over pronation in my feet. When on the balls of my feet, it applies extra tension on the tendons that run on...

Ours was updated!

Has anyone checked the Kukkiwon website to see if their Dan is changed? I am assuming if the test results will be sent out this week, the results would be in the system by now, no?

We use 1" pine, from Lowe's, what do you guys use? Our little kiddoes (ages 3-5) use the demo boards, until they are old enough for 8th gup (yellow belt) and then they have to break the normal boards.

Howdy all! This has something to do with McDojangs, I think. If not, let me know and I can start a new thread. We run tests about every 3 months, after green belt, you have to wait at least 6 months before being eligible to test. That being said, some kids aren't ready to test at 3/6...

Yep, during a test, the holder moved during a punch break, and I ended up with a bad broken hand (boxer's fracture). I was not happy when I saw the replay. Ouch. I was out for the better part of 2 months

Lock ins are Parent night outs where parents drop off their kids with sleeping bags at 9:30 at night and pick them up at 8 the next morning. We feed them pizza and lemonade and play all night long, till they fall asleep. Our place is pretty small about 1300 sq. ft. We are located in a small...

Well since you brought it up, we have class size limits 2 - 5 year olds - 6 kiddos 7-13 year olds - 14 kiddos Family class - 7 children Adult class - 16 students. We have two "lock-ins" a year (well we've done 2 and plan to keep it that way until November), and it has been tremendous in...

Yep, we have started a bad quality school.j/k LOL What markers are you talking about?

AoG sent me the following message, and with his permission I am copying it to a new thread to get other ideas as well. "Hello. I saw your posting where you mentioned that in 7 months, you have hit 70 students. How did you do that? We would love to hear hints and tips on succesfull enrollment...

Can I ask a follow up question? My BB test was grueling, I had to break a bunch of boards, do a bunch of forms, fight a bunch of people, and defend myself, not to mention write a 10 page paper. I have seen bb tests that just have forms and a couple of boards. I have also seen 6 year old black...

I spoke to David Askinas on Saturday and he said they hadn't received the results as of yet. He seemed pretty frustrated about the whole thing.

When speaking to most Olympic Style practitioners, when someone refers to point-style sparring, is usually when the competitors are stopped after every point and reset. I just wanted to make that clarification when someone posted about point sparring. I really thank all of your comments. It...

That was awesome, I had started calf raises, but this adds a new dimension.

Thank you all for your responses. Most of you all were helpful, others jumped on the attack, but I expected a little of that. We do not do point sparring, we only do olympic style sparring. At this point we devote about 2 days a month (which is a week for our kids) to self defense. Nothing...