ferry

Thanks all! I'm definitely gonna follow my heart. The class I do was always more a martial sport with great emphasis on the competitive side. I understand both the financial burdens on any club owner and the need to educate students in self defence.... ...but I still wanna win with the martial sport I started out with. Thanks again all! Ferry

Yeah syllabus as in stance, pad work and more self defence & sparring work. The competition classes weren't always full so it was costing our club money to rent the venue. I can uderstand my coach's financial concerns but if we'd even been given a chance to discuss the change I'm sure we could have to to a compromise.

She doesn't want to run competition classes anymore, where we learn advanced routines to compete with. We used to have specific 'squad' classes where we would do conditioning and train in competition forms. But now those classes have been cancelled and we're just doing syllabus work. Syllabus is fine as it's good for basics, but I joined up to learn more exciting routines which were physically challenging. And for the past 3 yrs I've been working my butt off to get to a competition level (aswell as competing regularly). I just feel let down that our coach has so drastically changed direction, I guess it IS time to find a new coach who wants the same as I do!

hi, just a quick question about clubs and goals. I've been training with a club for a number of years and my coach has decided to no longer support us in competitions, she wants to focus on other stuff. Our squad class has been cancelled too and I'm a bit lost as to what to do. Obvisiously I still wanna compete cos I've been training specifically for that goal for many years. My question is, should I ditch this club & move on? Has anybody come across coaches changing goals and ambitions???? luv to hear from anybody ferry