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firemanandxmarine wrote:
I remember my daddy taking classes. it was strict i his school so strict i was not allowed to learn because of my disciple problems. grown men where silent and people train with out a word. the master never even smiled. very intimate seating. kids where in class but they rarely misbehaved. this is where push ups where performed with the knuckles. mats where never seen. i fell on carpet made callus on carpet. there was no fun games after class just redundant practice with kicks and blocks. hogo whats tha back then. shin pads and hand pads that was it.
there where no lil dragons and lil ninjas. now we have padded floors and a kid fall asleep with the stuff we use to do. sad sad sad. tell me instructors do you think out art will die with us only to survive with our kids thats if the chose to teach? i cant even have a class that wants to stretch for a hour with out some kid looking up. what do you do you instructors say!
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Thats how we train now.
There had to be a reason that most schools moved away from this. GM Kim has the advantage in that his class is on base and he speaks perfect english, that makes all of us migooks comfortable. It becomes a matter (I keep saying this, sorry) what do people expect out of their training. Once you open a school you become part of the service industry. You have a product to sell. When you walk down the street looking for a place to eat on one side there is a plain diner home cooked style meals, meat and potato mom and pops place, on the other side a fast food place, playground out front, air conditioned, bright, cheery (ring any bells). Where do you go? If you've got kids you know where you are being dragged into especially if there are already friends on the playground.
Is our art going to die...no! But as a business man you do what you have to do to get them in the door and keep them there, as an instructor you teach your art, as a leader you inspire them to be the best that they can be. Look at the young people on this site, a lot of them aren't even teenagers and they are already lifers. TKD isn't going anywhere the delivery method may change but the message is still the same.
