A little bit of me just died

[granfire]

Well, it does every time at testing, but I had not been in along time...

Just and FYI, we expect more from our bluebelt kids, even younger than the ones in the vid...


I am off now, banging my head into a wall....

 

[Blindside]

Hmmph, apparently I am now outranked by two kids who were negative four years of age when I started martial arts.

I must suck.

 

[Twin Fist]

not gonna do it



not gonna do it


not gonna do it

lord give me strength.........

 

[Carol]

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/

 

[miguksaram]

not gonna do it



not gonna do it


not gonna do it

lord give me strength.........

The blood from the tongue you are bitting must be gushing by now. ha.ha.ha

 

[Bill Mattocks]

Hmmph, apparently I am now outranked by two kids who were negative four years of age when I started martial arts.

I must suck.

Life is so unfair.

 

[granfire]

Hmmph, apparently I am now outranked by two kids who were negative four years of age when I started martial arts.

I must suck.

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...

 

[shesulsa]

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.

 

[girlbug2]

(sigh) These poor kids are going to grow up thinking they are badass black belts. Sooner or later somebody will "test" them for real.

Their teacher is the one who really needs a straightening out.

 

[firerex]

wow i'm in the same organization but seriously they suck, i tell my green belts that if i dont see a spin and atleast a 3 move combo, i'm gonna make sure they fail

 

[K31]

Well, it does every time at testing, but I had not been in along time...

Just and FYI, we expect more from our bluebelt kids, even younger than the ones in the vid...


I am off now, banging my head into a wall....

I thought from the title this was a thread about necrosis. Anyway, I liked how they took turns, very polite.

 

[girlbug2]

I thought from the title this was a thread about necrosis. Anyway, I liked how they took turns, very polite.

LOL! Necrosis...

 

[dancingalone]

Well, it does every time at testing, but I had not been in along time...

Just and FYI, we expect more from our bluebelt kids, even younger than the ones in the vid...


I am off now, banging my head into a wall....

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.

 

[celtic_crippler]

(sigh) These poor kids are going to grow up thinking they are badass black belts. Sooner or later somebody will "test" them for real.

Their teacher is the one who really needs a straightening out.

Hit the nail dead-center on the head.

 

[terryl965]

Stuff like this is what give TKD its bad name, my god can we ever really recover from this.......Hell No.....

 

[Twin Fist]

why do you think i am taking up Kajukembo?

 

[miguksaram]

Wow. I can now say my 8-year-old orange belts spar like second degrees.

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?

 

[terryl965]

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?

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]

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.

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]

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.

Occam's Razor would seem to apply in this case.