Headhunter
Senior Master
So I've been back in kenpo for about 4 months now after a long 20 year break and I've been loving it. But lately there's been tension there not between me and anyone but 2 other guys. The main guy who runs it has his group of black belts he bought up so it's the head instructor who's an 8th dan another guy who's a 6th and another 5th. Then there's everyone else.
But lately another guy who's a 2nd has started training with us and he knows the head instructor very very well for a long time but since that guy started they don't get along. They have different ways of doing things and the 2nd dan has different opinions how the club should be run and quite honestly it's making training uncomftoable and not a nice atmosphere as its turning into more of a pissing contest trying to show who knows more. Take the other week one of the head instructors guys was teaching a technique to a lower belt and the 2nd dan started disagreeing it wasn't a major thing at all and I did agree with him about it but the technique worked still but to me it seemed he was trying to undermine the instructor.
Then the 2 started arguing about the move not screaming and swearing but it was getting intense and arguing in front of the whole class. I was honestly completely embarrassed and I ended up saying lets talk about this after class can we move on. Then things were getting out of hand they were laying imto each other on techniques hard quite honestly I think they were trying to hurt each other and the 2nd dan was going hard on lower belts to who had nothing to do with anything and laying into them and disagreeing with how they were doing things. The guy tried to do it with me but I wasn't having that I'm in my 60s I can't be taking punches like that. I saw he was going to lay into my ribs with a punch so I blocked it and in kenpo when you're drilling you don't do that but I wasn't getting my ribs broken and he said to me hey you blocked and I was like yeah because I knew you were gonna go 100% I'm not getting my ribs smashed because of this drama.
I was pissed tbh maybe I should've just said nothing but quite honestly I'm tired of it. It's why I walked away from kenpo in the first place to many egos.
It's getting to much there's mumbling and back stabbing and all sorts if it doesn't get sorted ill walk away from the club and just do my own training like I've been doing for years. I hope it doesn't come to that because I enjoy doing it with a group but I can't be dealing with this garbage.
But lately another guy who's a 2nd has started training with us and he knows the head instructor very very well for a long time but since that guy started they don't get along. They have different ways of doing things and the 2nd dan has different opinions how the club should be run and quite honestly it's making training uncomftoable and not a nice atmosphere as its turning into more of a pissing contest trying to show who knows more. Take the other week one of the head instructors guys was teaching a technique to a lower belt and the 2nd dan started disagreeing it wasn't a major thing at all and I did agree with him about it but the technique worked still but to me it seemed he was trying to undermine the instructor.
Then the 2 started arguing about the move not screaming and swearing but it was getting intense and arguing in front of the whole class. I was honestly completely embarrassed and I ended up saying lets talk about this after class can we move on. Then things were getting out of hand they were laying imto each other on techniques hard quite honestly I think they were trying to hurt each other and the 2nd dan was going hard on lower belts to who had nothing to do with anything and laying into them and disagreeing with how they were doing things. The guy tried to do it with me but I wasn't having that I'm in my 60s I can't be taking punches like that. I saw he was going to lay into my ribs with a punch so I blocked it and in kenpo when you're drilling you don't do that but I wasn't getting my ribs broken and he said to me hey you blocked and I was like yeah because I knew you were gonna go 100% I'm not getting my ribs smashed because of this drama.
I was pissed tbh maybe I should've just said nothing but quite honestly I'm tired of it. It's why I walked away from kenpo in the first place to many egos.
It's getting to much there's mumbling and back stabbing and all sorts if it doesn't get sorted ill walk away from the club and just do my own training like I've been doing for years. I hope it doesn't come to that because I enjoy doing it with a group but I can't be dealing with this garbage.
