A little bit of me just died
- Thread starter granfire
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8 years old and testing for 2nd black?
What a bunch of lazy slackers.
If they applied themselves, they could have tested for their 2nd degree black belt by 6 years old, like this girl:
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1518167/
What a bunch of lazy slackers.
If they applied themselves, they could have tested for their 2nd degree black belt by 6 years old, like this girl:
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1518167/
miguksaram
Master of Arts
The blood from the tongue you are bitting must be gushing by now. ha.ha.ha
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granfire
Sr. Grandmaster
verkill: :lfao::lfao::lfao:you missed the point.
But it is sad. Even for my mushy meager substandards! :lol::lol::lol:
But that school is in my general area, so I am keeping tongue tightly in cheek...
I would consider that lousy sparring, regardless of rank, really. Like I said, we expect more from our Blue Belt kids, heck, even the greenies, beginner sparrer are encouraged to do a lot more than one kick and backing off. Not to mention the dropped hands....
What gets me, dumb parent mentions the kids name and the school dhe trains out of. I mean....Youtube is watched by millions of people, and a lot of them are weirdoes! But that's a totally unrelated issue...
Wow. I can now say my 8-year-old orange belts spar like second degrees.
You know ... I think ranking kids this young is reprehensible and disgusting. But I'm kinda viewing it like abortion ... don't like it? Don't do it.
You know ... I think ranking kids this young is reprehensible and disgusting. But I'm kinda viewing it like abortion ... don't like it? Don't do it.
K31
Blue Belt
I thought from the title this was a thread about necrosis. Anyway, I liked how they took turns, very polite.
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dancingalone
Grandmaster
I feel your pain. Not too much you can do about it if this is not your studio though. It's been discussed many times, but this is just an inherent problem with teaching martial arts for a living: it's too tempting to relax your standards in order to keep the tuition and fees flowing in.
All you can do is just continue to work hard and hopefully help turn out some quality TKDists yourself.
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celtic_crippler
Senior Master
Hit the nail dead-center on the head.
miguksaram
Master of Arts
I'm sorry to hear that. I was hoping you would be teaching better techniques.
(j/k)It is what it is. So which one of you are going to go to the school and let them know that their system sucks and you are going to revoke their kids' black belts?
I'm sorry to hear that. I was hoping you would be teaching better techniques.
It is what it is. So which one of you are going to go to the school and let them know that their system sucks and you are going to revoke their kids' black belts?
Well like I have said a hundred times, what people do in there school is there business. People must like what the instructor is doing so he is providing wjhat the masses wants in that area. I have no problem with a water down system as long as they are telling this childern and adults it is not suited for the streets. Since all we have is a video of the test we do not know if the instructor is telling them this or not. I still say it is bad for all martial arts not just TKD but people are wanting this type of training for little johnny and themself. Lets pass judgement for what we are seeing and not for that we do not know.
miguksaram
Master of Arts
Right...and honestly, we do not know what he teaches. This could have been sport sparring, this could have been light sparring...who knows. He may have these kid tearing things up in regular classes. Then again...This might be the best he has to offer. We do not know unless we sit through his classes first hand.
dancingalone
Grandmaster
Occam's Razor would seem to apply in this case.
