I just wanted to update the MT community and any former students that come and check in, that I am officially closing the doors of Superior Tangsoodo. After losing our space at the YWCA, I was able to offer a limited amount of lessons at my house in my private dojang, but we are selling our house and moving, so that no longer will be possible.
It's been a good ride. The dojang has been open for almost seven years and I've had more then fifty students come through my small organization. A lot of things have changed since those early days. Our curriculum has become much more practical and innovative, the end result is that I really feel that we put together an effective self defense system.
Several of my students, including myself, have had to use what we learned in various real life situations. Some of them included weapons, multiple attackers, and multiple attackers with weapons. All of my students, with the training they received at Superior TSD, have been able to pull through these situations and survive.
That alone, tells me that we were doing something right.
Now its on to different things, though. For myself, I will be moving to Hawaii and restarting my martial arts program in Kaneohe on Oahu. We'll start small at first and see where it goes. The good news is that we already have a place out there. In the house that we are living, there is an attached room with the dimensions of 20 by 35 and a patio door to a 700 square foot linai. This will become my new dojang. I'm not sure what I will name it yet. Hopefully, I can come up with something that correctly describes what I'm attempting to do.
I hope to have this dojang up and running by the end of July or the beginning of August. My current students are always invited to come to my new dojang to train.
Superior TSD may reopen its doors sometime in the future. My senior student continues to train with several of my other students in the basement of his house. I will be monitoring their progress and hopefully sitting on a shim-sa when I come back to visit family. If my student decides to do so, I will help him reopen the dojang with him as the head instructor.
All of this is sad and exciting for me at the same time. One chapter of my martial arts career is closing and another is opening. I'm not sure how things will change, only time will tell. Also, I'm not sure what to do with this forum. I may ask Bob to change the name when I open my new school, or I may see if I can create some sub-forums so that people in my teacher's dojang, my old dojang, and my new dojang can communicate. Again, time will tell.
For all of those who participated in my dojang and in this forum, aloha and mahalo...
upnorthkyosa
It's been a good ride. The dojang has been open for almost seven years and I've had more then fifty students come through my small organization. A lot of things have changed since those early days. Our curriculum has become much more practical and innovative, the end result is that I really feel that we put together an effective self defense system.
Several of my students, including myself, have had to use what we learned in various real life situations. Some of them included weapons, multiple attackers, and multiple attackers with weapons. All of my students, with the training they received at Superior TSD, have been able to pull through these situations and survive.
That alone, tells me that we were doing something right.
Now its on to different things, though. For myself, I will be moving to Hawaii and restarting my martial arts program in Kaneohe on Oahu. We'll start small at first and see where it goes. The good news is that we already have a place out there. In the house that we are living, there is an attached room with the dimensions of 20 by 35 and a patio door to a 700 square foot linai. This will become my new dojang. I'm not sure what I will name it yet. Hopefully, I can come up with something that correctly describes what I'm attempting to do.
I hope to have this dojang up and running by the end of July or the beginning of August. My current students are always invited to come to my new dojang to train.
Superior TSD may reopen its doors sometime in the future. My senior student continues to train with several of my other students in the basement of his house. I will be monitoring their progress and hopefully sitting on a shim-sa when I come back to visit family. If my student decides to do so, I will help him reopen the dojang with him as the head instructor.
All of this is sad and exciting for me at the same time. One chapter of my martial arts career is closing and another is opening. I'm not sure how things will change, only time will tell. Also, I'm not sure what to do with this forum. I may ask Bob to change the name when I open my new school, or I may see if I can create some sub-forums so that people in my teacher's dojang, my old dojang, and my new dojang can communicate. Again, time will tell.
For all of those who participated in my dojang and in this forum, aloha and mahalo...
upnorthkyosa
