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In my school we teach bouncing for point sparring, and not bouncing for continuous sparring.

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I have a friend who just moved from japan, she is a black belt in shorin ryu. According to her, shotokan is the more sport like version of shorin ryu. Also she doesn't do any deep stances as well as only a few kata.

Yes we test. It is a benchmark for their progress. For adults I can see not testing. But for kids it lets them and their parents see what they have learned and accomplished. Or if they don't pass, what they still need to learn in order to acheive the next rank.

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I guess I'm physically and mentally abusing the children I teach...

Jumping Jacks is where you stand with your feet together and your hands by your sides. Then you jump in the air and land with ur hands above your head and your feet apart. Jump again and land with your feet back together. Every time you have your hands in the air and feet apart, you count. As far as punishing the whole class, that is an absolute last minute resort for me. Probably because of how I grew up. I was often one of the "goody two shoes" and so I hated being punished for someone else being bad. Also I was extremely shy and unsocial, so I would never dream of asking the other kids to behave. Thus group punishment always left me hating the teacher and the class, because it was unfair. I found it not right to be punished just because other kids didnt know how to behave and I was too shy and self concious to speak up. Just something to be aware of when you group punish. Keep an eye out for those kids who are always good and quiet. They may become very resentful.

If its light to medium contact point fighting, block it with your arm. Ie hold ur forarm close to your body, and allow the kick to hit it instead of your body. Otherwise the best technique is to move out of the way.

Push-ups is what I use for anyone over the age of 5. If they do them poorly (and I know how well each student can perform), then they do them all over again. Occasionally I have students do wall sits, but this is only once every other year or so. I don't give them a time either. If they ask me how long, I tell them till I get tired. Its always less than 5 minutes though. With students under the age of 5, I give them time outs facing the wall. As far as demoting students...We had one student who was a high rank who was being very rude to a lower rank. We made them switch belts for two weeks. At the end of two weeks, he was much more respectful to all of the students in the dojo, and answered the loudest and quickest with his yes ma'ams and sirs.

Use handpads. Have him start on a line, then when you hold up the handpad he has to go after it with a cirtain technique. As soon as you see him moving (or a split second after then work at it till you can move sooner) then drop the handpad. He has to hit the handpad before it gets dropped. We do this with our students and they love it. Another thing we do is pair up two students, as soon as i say go, they have 3 seconds to hit eachother with any point fighting technique (they are wearing sparring gear). If they don't make contact with a point fighting technique within three quick seconds, they have to do pushups. Sometimes neither student will hit the other, so both students will do pushups. Usually after about 3 rounds of both students doing pushups, they start to make contact before the 3 seconds is up.

Occasionally we have a kid in class that has gas. We do sit-ups every class, so the kid passes gas just about every single time they come up in the sit-up.

I agree, that's definitly expencive. As far as I am aware, in our dojo anything about 1st degree is free. As well as having no tuition fees after 1st degree. 1st degree tests btw were I think about 200 dollars, and that included a ceramony with a sword.

I think this is a question much like 'Which style is the best'? It's really, which style is best for me considering body type, age, physical limitations or strengths, availability of schools, etc. Personally, I start kids at 9 earliest, then add a couple of extra novice ranks so it alllows more time for their growth, but still feels like progess. Want to see them be 15 or so before bestowing black belt. My rule of thumb: My black belts should be able to fight off a man (attacker/kidnapper/robber, etc.). It's still shaking out (only started this a couple of years ago), but so far so good. Anyway, that's what works for me. What about bigger teens? Would you award them a black belt earlier? And what about smaller women? Would you not award them? I for instance am 5 foot 2, thats shorter than most 14 year olds, and a lot of 12 year olds....

Another peice of advice. Right when your devision is called, use the bathroom real quick before going to line up.

Practice kata facing all different directions in all different rooms. When you get to the tournament, don't practice your kata there facing only one direction, you never know what way the particular ring will be facing. Also, get to your ring on time. If you arrive later, then in many tournaments (I dont know about all) they make you go first. You do NOT want to go first for your first tournament. Also, some tournaments let you go in reverse order, if you pay early. Everyone that pays by a cirtain date goes in reverse order of when they payed, after the people who did not pay by that date. So if this is an option, then pay early so that you can be guarenteed to go one of the last.

At our dojo we usually do not give the results till the following monday. (testing is done on fridays) There are three reasons for this. 1. The testing panel compares notes, and decides if everyone passed or not. 2. Certificates can be signed and we make sure we have the correct belts for the students. 3. They receive their new rank at the beginning or end of the class, so everyone who wasn't at the test can still witness it. If testing is before a holiday, then we will give the results and ranks out the same night. This means however that we don't have the opportunity to compare notes. Instead we just make sure no one failed anyone. Also we need to make sure we have all the correct belts ahead of time, even for students who do not show up or pass their test. Certificates are handed out the next time class is scheduled, as there is no time to sign them. And no one gets to watch the cerimony except your classmates who also tested, and your parents/siblings who are already there.

For teaching or training, I don't care what color. For competition, black makes you look faster, and white is required for traditional forms.

I do chun kuk do, but we dont do that kata, sorry.

Good to know for instruction purposes...

me I thought it was a silly question, and so deserved a silly answer.

In our school advanced students have to throw 100 roundhouse kicks (50 each leg) to a bag in 1 min time. They dont have to have perfect technique, but they do have to have good power. The foot also must be placed on the floor between kicks. Yes, I think it is entirely possible to do the things you said this kid could do. Try it!

When you stand AND walk with your feet parallel, and notice how other people have bad "stances" with their feet pointing out...

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