CrushingFist said:
THanks Xue.
But even so what do you think of them? Anything =]
Tell me if you see anything flakey
I can't really answer your question since I do not know much if anything about the schools. I do know that one of them once had a Tai Chi teacher that was pictured on the page in various Yang style postures and that guy was horrible. But I also see he is no longer pictured. What does that mean, either they realized he was awful and got rid of him or they realized he was awful and removed him from the webpage. It truly tells me nothing.
I am fairly certain Gin Soo Chu is very good and the real deal. I have never had any contact with Gin Soo Chu but I have had some with his son Vincent (in Boston) who seems to know what he is talking about and his students appear to be good. Is the guy on the webpage any good, likely but there is no guarantee. My Tai Chi Sifu was once very good and comes from a rather impressive lineage but he changed fairly recently in order to gain students and lost all of his senior students in the process. So I really canÂ’t tell about Tai Chi school you posted either.
It is very hard to tell anything from a webpage. I know a school near me that has a phenomenal web page but in reality the school is not that good. I know of 2 very good teachers near me that have no WebPages and one absolutely refuses to advertise at all.
I know this is probably not what you want to read but the best way to do this is to go to the schools, watch a class or 2, watch how the Sifu interacts with the students or if he interacts at all. And watch the students too that is very important. If the students are good and appear to be serious that is a good sign.
I was checking out Hapkido schools recently and I found a Hapkido school with a Korean trained master that from the pictures around his office was once very good. He did not teach anymore, his son did and his son was very good. However the students were sloppy and not good at all. I went to another Hapkido school where the head master did not get involved in every aspect of the class, his senior students (black belts) did. However all of the students I saw were very good and when the head master did get involved it was to correct people by example, he would work with his black belts to show his students how it was suppose to be done and it was all done in a very respectful manor, he was very good. And he also has a great website where the Korean master has none. It is very difficult to tell much from a website.
I honestly wish I could tell you what I think but since I do not know the schools I cannot say much at all. It would be necessary to visit the actual schools to be able to truly and honestly tell you anything of worth.
I can say I watch out for schools that require contracts, but there are 2 sides to that as well. From a student perspective you are locked into a year or more contracts with a school that you know little or nothing about and the teacher may be awful. From an instructor point of view if a student isnÂ’t willing to commit to a year why bother wasting time training them.
I also look out for schools that have head instructors that insist on being called “Grand Master” but that is a personal opinion, they may deserve the title, I just think it is a sigh of arrogance. And since I have links to Northern China I know that if in Beijing they call someone that generally they are being sarcastic and saying the guy says he knows everything but he really knows nothing. However that title may not be sarcastic in Southern China nor is it here. So again I am of little help
Sorry I could not help you more.
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