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Angus
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So, here's a question for both instructors and students who have an opinion. When someone who has much previous martial art experiences that are both recent and extensive, do you make them start from the very beginning again? I'm not talking belt wise, because that SHOULD happen. What I mean is, if a Taekwondo blackbelt goes into, say, a karate school, do you force them to only do front kicks until they get their yellow belt, or allow them to participate in advanced drills as their skill allows, regardless of what belt they are in the current system?
I ask this because this happened to me at a school I might have potentially studied at further, but it drove me nuts having most of my skill in my kicks to be forced to be stuck only doing front kicks when I can perform and teach them better than the "advanced students". I'm curious on your thoughts to this.
I can say that with my experience I would evaluate the students technique prior to relegating them to certain performing only certain moves. Obviously as systems differ slightly in execution, I would show them how our art does them and show that I expect them to be able to perform it this way correctly, though not disallowing them from their way, either. However, I don't think that I would require them to start completely from the beginning technique-wise just because of their belt color.
I ask this because this happened to me at a school I might have potentially studied at further, but it drove me nuts having most of my skill in my kicks to be forced to be stuck only doing front kicks when I can perform and teach them better than the "advanced students". I'm curious on your thoughts to this.
I can say that with my experience I would evaluate the students technique prior to relegating them to certain performing only certain moves. Obviously as systems differ slightly in execution, I would show them how our art does them and show that I expect them to be able to perform it this way correctly, though not disallowing them from their way, either. However, I don't think that I would require them to start completely from the beginning technique-wise just because of their belt color.