i was tlaking to my friend over my phone and he was talking about how he thought his instructor was making the wrong choice almost  every time about everything.  i cant agree with him because this has never happened to me.  the question is have you ever thought that your instructor was making a wrong decison?  wether its tournamnet wise or school wise.

I trust my master most of the time.  If I have a disagreement about technique he is good about explaining his point of view, and he's very persuasive.

My question is: why would your friend train with an instructor with whom he disagrees so much?  The teacher/student relationship requires a leap of faith.  If the leap is unsatisfying perhaps a different teacher is in order.

Yeah, sounds like he needs to join a different school!

I have faith in my instructer, but not blind faith. Instructers are as imperfect as everyone else.  I will say that if I say my instructer doing something unlawful or against what our school stands far, ie getting high, abusing his power, abusing a person I would stand up and express my thoughts, speak with my schools Grand Master, then train at a diffrent branch. 

When I checked out schools in the past I have met a few instructers who I believed got thier 5th dan from the internet, and you can see that they do not practice what they preach and I would never return to such schools again.

I trust my master to train me, so I trust that he will handle his business with great care.  Also, I'm looking at decisions from the student side of the decision, not the side of a business owner, which is a very different perspective.

Daniel

My response is that if you don't trust your instructor then you won't learn from them and you should leave.  There are instructors who I agree with and trust my training with them.  There are others I would not and so I don't train with them. There is a difference between questioning their theories and ideas on forms or how to preform a technquie, that is what they are their for is to explain what some things are done certain ways. Question can be good but if there is questioning because there is no faith in the instructor then it's time to leave.

im trying to get him to my school but he says that he is ok with the way he explains everything.  its the things that his master doesnt tell him that bothers him.  i was kind of confused when he told me that so i couldnt give him any advice.  thats why im asking all of you.  he is still asking me what to do and the only thing i can come up with is to switch schools but he keeps saying no.

It's not a rule as such but in the TAGB student manual, it says that if a student adopts a technique from another dojang and the instructor disapproves, the student must immediately drop the technique or train where he learnt the techniue.

I found it very hard when I was training in London because the instructor there kept saying to make my L stance niunja sogi wider - nearly shoulder width apart. This was completely different to my regular instructor who said it should be heels nearly in-line.

Eventually, I stopped training there. I asked him to explaina  number of times as the wider version meant a different weight proporttion etc but I never got an answer that seemed right.

SOunds like your friend should change dojangs...