Training has been cancelled this week due to a run of very hot weather. It is 44.3C (or around 112F) here at the moment and our dojo has no aircon, so for safety reasons we are not training. What conditions, hot or cold would it take for your school to cancel training?.
What conditions cancel training?
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Our school is located in a very large building with multiple businesses so...the heat and air conditioning are generally kept up without issue.
What would most likely cancel training is heavy snow or ice.
What would most likely cancel training is heavy snow or ice.
wade
Black Belt
Unsafe weather conditions. Christmas, New Years, Thanksgiving. No other holiday though. Neither heat nor cold will determine weather we will train or not.
Cirdan
Senior Master
A tsunami, nuclear winter, an earthquake, volcanic erruption or something similar. As long as we can make it to the Dojo, we train. :karate:
Unsafe weather for travel - ice, snow, high winds, flooding.
Unsafe weather for training - If it's really cold there will be too many injuries. Silat in a meat locker is no fun. I'd like one, just one, year where we had enough space, a real building and heat, let alone air conditioning. In my fantasies it would be somewhere besides a warehouse, a welding shop or a garage. As it is, we've tried heaters, but my wife just bogarts them Of course, she gets her revenge in the Summer. When it's 40C she's running around like a little lizard while the rest of us wilt.
Holidays - Christmas, Thanksgiving, 4th of July, New Year's.
Weddings, Births, Deaths - So far two weddings, two births, no funerals.
Unsafe weather for training - If it's really cold there will be too many injuries. Silat in a meat locker is no fun. I'd like one, just one, year where we had enough space, a real building and heat, let alone air conditioning. In my fantasies it would be somewhere besides a warehouse, a welding shop or a garage. As it is, we've tried heaters, but my wife just bogarts them
Of course, she gets her revenge in the Summer. When it's 40C she's running around like a little lizard while the rest of us wilt.Holidays - Christmas, Thanksgiving, 4th of July, New Year's.
Weddings, Births, Deaths - So far two weddings, two births, no funerals.
Usually icy roads, heavy snow, etc. are the major factors in the winter. The major Holidays, ie: Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc. The schools I go to either have AC or fans, so the warm weather really isn't a factor in closing down. If its really hot, there have been times when I've just taken it upon myself to not go, but the school does not close.
Mike
Mike
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Sever Ice, Snow and Holidays.
Haze
Blue Belt
Upstae NY (syracuse area) Only thing that might cancell class is travelers advisory for snow/ice.
It's never to hot here!
It's never to hot here!
I rarely close. Sometimes for a Holiday but almost never for bad weather. I leave it up to each individudal student to make the choice in foul weather if they want to drive. Myself, sometimes I like the challenge.
The last time we had a power outage I just lit candles and continued class as usual.
The last time we had a power outage I just lit candles and continued class as usual.
Our classes are rarely ever cancelled. They never fall on holidays. We don't have snow, just sunshine and liquid sunshine.
rutherford
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Christmas, Thanksgiving, Labor Day, and Memorial Day. Sorry, but even New Year's Day has its own resolution training at 0700 sharp!
We will also close the dojo during special events, such as the days that we host tournaments.
We always try to have two yudansha instructors in the building during all class hours. If the primary instructor is unable to make it, then the secondary one takes over (the titles of "primary" and "secondary" have nothing to do with rank, but instead, who is normally assigned to teach a particular class).
If we know well in advance that one of the two instructors will not be there, we'll have someone else sub in for them.
Other than that, there would have to be a major disaster (hurricane, etc) for us to close the dojo during normal operating hours.
We will also close the dojo during special events, such as the days that we host tournaments.
We always try to have two yudansha instructors in the building during all class hours. If the primary instructor is unable to make it, then the secondary one takes over (the titles of "primary" and "secondary" have nothing to do with rank, but instead, who is normally assigned to teach a particular class).
If we know well in advance that one of the two instructors will not be there, we'll have someone else sub in for them.
Other than that, there would have to be a major disaster (hurricane, etc) for us to close the dojo during normal operating hours.
I would go with this - although when it's really hot, it's not much of a problem; we're in a basement - we just move slower and drink more water. I hold class any day the Y is open - the only thing I would add is power outage; being in a basement, when the power goes out, so does the air circulation and the lights, so if it doesn't come back pretty quick, we leave - in 8 years, the transformer has gone out for the entire neighborhood 2 or 3 times, but that's about the only thing that'll do it.
karatekid1975
Master Black Belt
Weather here won't cancel anything. We live in upstate NY, so everyone is pretty used to snow and such. But a pretty bad ice storm is the only thing that I can remember that shut everything down here, including the dojang. Other than that, just major holidays is when the dojang is closed.
tradrockrat
2nd Black Belt
I didn't even get snow days off. My teacher lived 200 yards away through the woods...
