the problem is besides the mindset and culture…is the law. depending on the state…even if you shot a dude in self defense…because you were trained some good lawyer in the right state can argue you were trained, and in a position where you didnt need to shoot…depending on the situation. ive talked to a lawyer about similar stuff where at least in mass, its equal force used against you. some states may be stricter…some looser.
I actually quit Karate. It was basic Shotokan, but I quit because I was doing boxing as well. I really wasn’t enjoying that Karate class, mainly because they weren’t intense. Like I feel after a workout I should be tired, but I was nowhere near tired. And you know its a problem where me a white belt can’t even get the black belts to spar with me because they feel I hit too hard and use boxing punches. I still do boxing though and I love it. One of the best workouts I have ever done. I may one day take up Karate again when I have more time, but with full time work, plus coaching and boxing, I had to cut something off
Sounds like a weak dojo to me. You did good getting out of there.
Naw nigga, you got me confused. LOL!!!
Well a lot of kids were at the dojo so I think the instructor was catering to them more. The instructor was legit, and old school dude, which you could tell he enjoyed my intensity and stuff, but I also understand the business. With boxing, it was nothing but hard work. I mean the coach has been getting me right, so one day i will go back to Karate, but I am content with Judo, Boxing and coaching wrestling.
So at mma practice we had a letmebang type of dbag.
Talking bout "i want to strangle somebody"
Talking bout "i want to go 100% like chute box"
Talking bout “i beat up everyone at my last gym”
Only to get taken down multiple times and going for super sloppy haymakers.
Had to drop him with a liver kick.
you understand a very important concept in martial arts business in america. ADULTS DONT MEAN SHIT. kids are the real cash cow and have to really cater to their needs. Ive noticed alot of tma schools stopping adult programs to focus purely on kids/teens. the school i teach at more or less does this as well…wait…you were in a class with teens/kids?
Did his vocabulary excessively consist of the word, “bro”, as in saying anything among the lines of, “I wanna strangle someone bro”, “Come on bro, let’s spar bro”, or “Back at my last gym, I totally kicked everyone’s asses bro”?
Because that’s the type of person that just popped up in my head.
Wearing an affliction shirt does not make you tough
The problem with the dudes projecting an alpha male image in a legit gym is that they feel their manhood threatened.
Where in a gym they yell and lift weights and claim the bench and the squat rack and the lat pull downs because he is doing “a total workout bro”
They come into a place that cultivates a competitive spirit and has guys tougher than they are.
So they spar with the most out of shape weakest guy first. Thinking to themselves “i just owned him”
Then they go with a guy who is smaller than he is, but is way tougher and way more talented. So he gets owned.
If it’s kickboxing he gets his shit pushed in and he leaves.
If this is bjj, gi or no gi, he gets put to sleep. Then he wakes up and his world shattered. He no longer feeling invincible. Being introspective just at how he got put out by a smaller guy.
So he disappears from the gym.
If he comes back he has a new attitude and wants to learn.
If he never returns, he goes on to crossfit
Well it was an evening class where there were kids that were in it. He didn’t totally forget about the adults, but when you are there for two months and you are still doing the same basic kata 1 then after a while you will get restless. We would spar and what not, but I don’t know what it was about me, but folks were afraid to spar me, which I think that if I am a white belt and yo a black belt you should be willing to teach me, not the just the instructor. But ego plays a big part in it as well. And honestly learnin how to box has stepped up other aspects of my martial arts, even Judo.
I was in a similar predicament when I was taking Shotokan as well. I actually really liked the sensei, he was as “old school” as he could be. BUT, what I noticed was as I went up in the rankings, until I finally got to 3rd kyu, more and more adults were leaving the school, or were just taking longer breaks away from training. It got to the point where, besides me, there were only about a couple more brown belts, and maybe one more black belt, would come to train regularly.
So, I was stuck just doing kata for the most part. It wasn’t until I moved to different neighborhood, where there was a Gracie JJ school, that I ultimately dropped karate. And geography wasn’t the sole reason for changing things up…there were other issues I had.
Here is sone good ole’ Sambo for ya.
And that actually made me think up a discussion topic:
I’m at work, so I don’t really have the luxury of scrolling through every page to see if this had already been done, but, I was wondering if people here can openly and honestly give reviews about where they train currently, or have trained.
Pros and cons.
Again, when time frees up here, I would love to critique where I am at now.
Just a thought.
So an update about wrestling.
I am now learning about the politics of HS sports. Basically the school has given me a defective program and has screwed me out of compensation at the same time. Basically I made a commitment to those kids so I Cam leave them hanging. But a big issue is that the school doesn’t treat us like we are a team.
Basically basketball and football are the main sports so they get whatever they need. Where I asked for the singlet uniforms and they gave me the old track team singlets.
I will go more in depth when I get to a computer. There is so much bs going on.
You don’t need all that jazz brah! Don’t let it get to you. Plenty of ways to train without any shmancy chrome-plated vitamins.
Damn bad hand me downs
i honestly suspected something like this by the way you described the school and the fact they gave you only a few weeks to get your team together and practice.
Well the first thing is that they basically screwed me out of this being a payed job. When I interviewed it was my understanding that you get a sizeable amount at the end of the season, which was fine. It was something I could do after my day job. Well the athletic director comes up to me and says that all the stuff that I need to have to coach needs to be in by a certain date otherwise you will be considered a volunteer. It frustrated me because if that shit would have been known before hand, then I would have figured something out. But to let me know right before the deadline was lame and basically kept you from having to spend money.
Also I made a list of things that were needed. Singlets, headgear, mat tape, warmup suits. Well they have no delivered on that either. Now certain things you should have because you had a wrestling team before. So she says well I need to have a fundraiser, etc. I get that and I don’t have a problem with it, but to not have the essentials is unacceptable. She gives me singlets and they are from the track team, hence they have numbers on the back. I’m like this won’t work, wrestling has no numbers. So I get the feeling that they are using me as a scapegoat or something, mainly because no one seems to know anything and tries to avoid me.
The biggest thing is how I find out about meets/tournaments. Basically the AD has been entering our school in invitationals without really paying attention to the date, etc. For example last week I find out that we have a “meet” on the 30th. Well, I am like okay, where at? I don’t hear anything until yesterday, and it is a tournament on the 26th and it is four hours away. Just so you know the kids are on school break and the majority of them won’t even be in town. So as I am speaking with her, I am like, so we have no uniforms, not enough member to actually enter, and it is the day after Christmas. Yeah, so I actually contacted the tournament director and let him know what is going on, because if I am lucky I would have 2 kids able to go, and honestly it isn’t worth it. I feel if we go then we need to go correct or not at all. And taking these kids out of town with no uniforms or anything is unacceptable.
Also since football and basketball are more popular, they tend to get what they want. I mean it is pretty bad guys… Basically they gave me a dead club and want me to breathe life into it, but restricting me by the amount of tools are at my disposal. Honestly I feel bad for the kids because how can you expect anyone to succeed when the quality of the school system is so bad?
On a lighter note, a kid who joined is actually a beast. And he has been a very big help in getting these kids where they need to be. I taught the little guy how to incorporate a tomo nagi into wrestling, as well as uchi mata. I am also getting a better response from the kids and some of them are really wanting to train hard. I swear though, seeing one of them actually pull off a move perfectly that you have been teaching them for months, makes me feel really good. If anything I know I am teaching these kids more than just wrestling, I am teaching them a way of life.
good point. I know there is a pretty good MMA gym here in the city that my brother trains at. I will probably have some of them roll through. My boxing coach donated some wrestling shoes, seeing as he had boxes full of them. A kickstarter is a great idea.
Karate?
Get your ass to a Kyokushin dojo.
Your kids, too.
The last vestige of traditional full-contact standup (well, Muay Thai counts of course…but I mean REAL traditional). Had to convert because there were no hardcore ITF Taekwon-Do schools left.