generalneon
White Belt
My daughter is currently becoming more and more disenchanted with her martial arts studies. She is 10 years old, is a 2nd degree black belt in Tang Soo Do-Moo Duk Kwan, and is on the cusp of earning her black belt in the Haidong Gumdo sword art. Her current instructor is a pretty good man, but he does seem to spout on about his political agenda and that can get very tiresome, where it tends to droan on into classes. He is currently shuffling around his class schedule to accomidate his adult students and eliminating some youth classes. She has been going to between 4-7 classes per week, and may have become a little burned out, as well. I have discussed options with her, and currently see something like 4 options:
1) Take classes with same school, different dojang (one other dojang is fairly close)
2) Change school, but same discipline to maintain rank (not sure if different schools would honor current ranking)
3) Start over with different martial art form (how hard to completely start from scratch?)
4) Quit completely (not my choice, or her's right now, but it is an option)
5) Simply tolerate her master's load of crap (she's losing much respect for him)
I don't know who has had an issue like this, with their kid or a student of theirs, but I would love some advice.
1) Take classes with same school, different dojang (one other dojang is fairly close)
2) Change school, but same discipline to maintain rank (not sure if different schools would honor current ranking)
3) Start over with different martial art form (how hard to completely start from scratch?)
4) Quit completely (not my choice, or her's right now, but it is an option)
5) Simply tolerate her master's load of crap (she's losing much respect for him)
I don't know who has had an issue like this, with their kid or a student of theirs, but I would love some advice.