Kickboxer101
Master Black Belt
Wow I just had a terrible session. Not from my own school but a friend asked me to come check out a gym she was thinking of joining so I went along and it's a huge space with some bags and a ring. It's a Muay Thai gym by the way. But anyway the instructor was about 5'2 and must've been about 25 stone he was huge. I know that doesn't make a good coach though and that's not what I based my judgement on but I lead my friend to introduce it as you do so I said out names and he was like "yeah sure put your money on the desk"
Then he startd the class and made everyone skip and shadow box but he did all this while sitting on a chair and looking at his phone. I accepted this at first as well it's just the warm up he's not teaching anything. So we did that then he said get pads on. So we got the gloves and the Thai pads and he said 5, 3 minute rounds go. Literally he didn't give anyone any combinations to do just to do your own thing. Literally he never looked once at anyone and didn't make any corrections to anyone. In fact he never even left his chair and was shouting generic motivation phrases while looking at his phone. That was the whole class and switching over. Not a single person learnt anything he didn't train anyone just looked at his phone all night. I tried my best to teach my friend and give her combos to do but it was so bad if I was on my own I'd have just walked out. Then at the end he told everyone to take pads off then had us kneeling down and told us to close our eyes and we stayed like that for 10 minutes. I don't know if it was meant to be meditation or what but he never said what it was then he dismissed everyone without doing any stretches.
I know all coaching styles are different but this guy didn't coach at all and I was looking round and no one there looked great to be honest. I think it was a McDojo to be honest the guy made sure everyone paid then basically said do your own thing. I checked the website just now and the class today is meant to be a technical session. The only thing I could've used to say okay not to bad was if it was just meant to be an open gym session but no it was meant to be a technical teaching class.
Then he startd the class and made everyone skip and shadow box but he did all this while sitting on a chair and looking at his phone. I accepted this at first as well it's just the warm up he's not teaching anything. So we did that then he said get pads on. So we got the gloves and the Thai pads and he said 5, 3 minute rounds go. Literally he didn't give anyone any combinations to do just to do your own thing. Literally he never looked once at anyone and didn't make any corrections to anyone. In fact he never even left his chair and was shouting generic motivation phrases while looking at his phone. That was the whole class and switching over. Not a single person learnt anything he didn't train anyone just looked at his phone all night. I tried my best to teach my friend and give her combos to do but it was so bad if I was on my own I'd have just walked out. Then at the end he told everyone to take pads off then had us kneeling down and told us to close our eyes and we stayed like that for 10 minutes. I don't know if it was meant to be meditation or what but he never said what it was then he dismissed everyone without doing any stretches.
I know all coaching styles are different but this guy didn't coach at all and I was looking round and no one there looked great to be honest. I think it was a McDojo to be honest the guy made sure everyone paid then basically said do your own thing. I checked the website just now and the class today is meant to be a technical session. The only thing I could've used to say okay not to bad was if it was just meant to be an open gym session but no it was meant to be a technical teaching class.