StudentCarl
3rd Black Belt
Seems to me that the way to go about this is with a published, progressive, slow implementation and a widely published set of specific standards:
1. Work from high dans downward, with successive levels added over a period of time. For example, 8th dans might be required to meet the standard by 2012, 7th dans by 2013, 6th by 2014, etc. This not only gives time to be successful, but gets leaders to lead before teaching, and sets up leadership by example.
2. I'm still at gup level, and am not clear what is the exact published standard (if there is one). I'd like to see something along the lines of the book I have 'The Explanation of Taekwondo Poomsae' (with the translation cleaned up). Getting everybody on the same page first requires that there be a same page that we can all look at!
3. Is the standard to be only performance of poomsae?
4. The other key is communicating why it is in the interest of grandmasters, masters, and schools to be onboard with this. Successful unity of effort requires unity of purpose. I would be interested to know if this is simply a top-down initiative or whether any effort has been made to gauge support for this. If you can develop a solid core of support, the fence-sitters are more likely to conform than if it's just imposed.
1. Work from high dans downward, with successive levels added over a period of time. For example, 8th dans might be required to meet the standard by 2012, 7th dans by 2013, 6th by 2014, etc. This not only gives time to be successful, but gets leaders to lead before teaching, and sets up leadership by example.
2. I'm still at gup level, and am not clear what is the exact published standard (if there is one). I'd like to see something along the lines of the book I have 'The Explanation of Taekwondo Poomsae' (with the translation cleaned up). Getting everybody on the same page first requires that there be a same page that we can all look at!
3. Is the standard to be only performance of poomsae?
4. The other key is communicating why it is in the interest of grandmasters, masters, and schools to be onboard with this. Successful unity of effort requires unity of purpose. I would be interested to know if this is simply a top-down initiative or whether any effort has been made to gauge support for this. If you can develop a solid core of support, the fence-sitters are more likely to conform than if it's just imposed.