This is true, but I just didn't personally think I deserved what he suggested. It doesn't show disrespect, my grandmaster respects whatever it is that I want to do.
I do trust his judgement in most cases. I think double promotion isn't necessary and honestly shouldn't be a thing.
Not really. If I don't want it then I don't have to. So, not entirely up to him.
Well, there's always gonna be people who have not experienced martial arts before; there is only one way to learn it. Start learning. So you shouldn't be biased against beginners.
I'm not biased against beginners. I've no issue training with someone who has 1 month experience, nor do I have any issue training with someone who has 6 months experience (and FYI to me, both of those people are beginners). But what I expect from them, the amount of force I use, the tactics I use in sparring, and any advice I give them, will be more appropriate to their experience, if I know what that experience is.
Just realized, you may have been responding to "Ultimately, I'm not a fan for people who have not experienced martial arts before". I wasn't saying I'm not a fan of people who haven't trained, or won't work with them. I was saying that I'm not a fan of newcomers skipping belts at the beginning, because of the reasons listed after/in my last post. I love newcomers to any MA.
Imposter Syndrome is when you don't feel you actually deserve something you have. For example, you get a promotion at work, and then everything is new to you, so you don't feel you know what you're doing, and wonder if you were "promoted to your level of incompetence".
This is essentially saying that you have a better idea of the qualifications to be a green belt than your instructor does. You, who are not yet a green belt, are better at judging what a green belt is than the man who's probably graded thousands of green belt tests in his career.
I don't know if there are many Taekwondo GMs that will tolerate "If I don't want to then I don't have to." Especially from a white belt. That's not how the culture works. There's leniency for bad attitudes at earlier belts, but in general, "I don't want to so I won't do it" is not the right answer.
There's a difference between beginners who have all the questions and beginners who have all the answers. We want people to come in and start learning. We don't want to gatekeep people coming in and asking questions. However, the problem is when beginners act like they are an authority in martial arts. It takes authority in a system to decide what the curriculum is or who is ready for promotion. That authority comes from experience, which you quite simply don't have. Which is why we're saying to trust someone who does (your GM).
Oh, well sometimes it’s good to skip belts that low since say a new white belt came in with some prior skills and knowledge; you then would be holding them back from the skills they could be learning by only single promoting them.
Yes. Which is why i originally asked if you had prior experience, and specified that if you do not, then I don't agree with it. If a karate black belt went to a tkd school like yours, i have no issues with them being ranked appropriately.
But would they have been appropriately skilled for a green belt if they waited a year?
Happened to me in judo once. A long time ago. Normally it went from white to yellow then green then brown then black. I skipped yellow and tested for green. I trained for 9 months for that before testing though. So was a white belt longer than most yellow belts normally would wait.
How would triple promoting be a punishment? That is a very big accomplishment. While it is awesome its wrong, but still how would that be a punishment??
Punishments tend to be things people don't want. If you don't want extra promotions, then more promotions would be a punishment.
And if you keep mouthing off, I'm going to promote you four ranks!
