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white dragon
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Sadly the school I've been training at for the last two years is a McDojo/Dojang. But the sad thing is, it wasn't for the previous two years. I train at a univeristy club, and this year the instructors have been replaced by those that seem to sum up all the reasons people hate Taekwondo.
For ages now I've been defending taekwondo against attacks over on the TKD forum of this site, but now I can see exactly where people get thier views from. Now why am I writing about this, well because I value your opinions and would like to know what your view would be in my situation. I've been on the committee for the club for the past two years and the club has been getting bigger anf bigger. Over the summer break though our chair person took it upon herself to get rid of the instructors and apoint new ones. the reason for this? Well because when the previsou instructors came to teach at the club (two years ago, when I started also) she didn't have anything to say she was a blackbelt. She also claimed not have trained for about 7 years, which was when she took her grading. Seeing that she blatently wasn't up to blackbelt standard my instructor gave her an honoury blackbelt status, on the condition that she take a grading to authenticate her belt by the end of the year. Anyway the first year ended and she was still not up to standard to grade, so she skipped the grading. The second year ended, still not up to the standard. My instructor told her that if she didn't take the grading and pass within the next 8 weeks that he would take the belt off her. And rather than grade she just decided to kick the instructor out. Without consulting the rest of the committee I should add.
Anyway, so we come back to be told the man that has dedicated his time to training us to a high standard, forming a club that I would was proud to be a member of has been kicked out. And the new guys gave a demonstration. And they're worse than most of the green belts in the class, and seeing as they guy claims to be a 5th Dan it's shocking.
Anyway to cut a long story short the university are sick with us and can see there's a split in the club between those of us that want our old instructor back and those that seem to prefer the new guys. What they've decided to do now is to hold a vote with just the members of the club (not the committee) and get them to vote for who they'd prefer. The problem is the new members haven't met our old instructor so won't have a clue whod' they'd prefer.
the club is so shocking that I no longer want to train there and after all the time and effort I put into it over the past two years this is very upsetting. And if the new instructors stay I'm just going to walk out.
I just wondered if anyone here had ever gone through anything similar or what your views on the situation are, am I being childish in walking away?
For ages now I've been defending taekwondo against attacks over on the TKD forum of this site, but now I can see exactly where people get thier views from. Now why am I writing about this, well because I value your opinions and would like to know what your view would be in my situation. I've been on the committee for the club for the past two years and the club has been getting bigger anf bigger. Over the summer break though our chair person took it upon herself to get rid of the instructors and apoint new ones. the reason for this? Well because when the previsou instructors came to teach at the club (two years ago, when I started also) she didn't have anything to say she was a blackbelt. She also claimed not have trained for about 7 years, which was when she took her grading. Seeing that she blatently wasn't up to blackbelt standard my instructor gave her an honoury blackbelt status, on the condition that she take a grading to authenticate her belt by the end of the year. Anyway the first year ended and she was still not up to standard to grade, so she skipped the grading. The second year ended, still not up to the standard. My instructor told her that if she didn't take the grading and pass within the next 8 weeks that he would take the belt off her. And rather than grade she just decided to kick the instructor out. Without consulting the rest of the committee I should add.
Anyway, so we come back to be told the man that has dedicated his time to training us to a high standard, forming a club that I would was proud to be a member of has been kicked out. And the new guys gave a demonstration. And they're worse than most of the green belts in the class, and seeing as they guy claims to be a 5th Dan it's shocking.
Anyway to cut a long story short the university are sick with us and can see there's a split in the club between those of us that want our old instructor back and those that seem to prefer the new guys. What they've decided to do now is to hold a vote with just the members of the club (not the committee) and get them to vote for who they'd prefer. The problem is the new members haven't met our old instructor so won't have a clue whod' they'd prefer.
the club is so shocking that I no longer want to train there and after all the time and effort I put into it over the past two years this is very upsetting. And if the new instructors stay I'm just going to walk out.
I just wondered if anyone here had ever gone through anything similar or what your views on the situation are, am I being childish in walking away?