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I use belts and stripes in combination to show rank levels. I don't charge for lessons or for tests. I even give the stripes and belts to students without charge. I also use stripes to reduce the expense of buying belts. A piece of tape is a lot cheaper than a belt. Though using too much tape can make it hard to count. Anyway that my logic and its definitely not motivated by trying to make money but rather in not trying to spend any.

Anyone ever have a problem with having classes being over attended by students that made giving a class difficult?

I'm a little lost here because in the other styles I have been invovled in there was no requirement as far sparring. Does your old Shito ryu Org have sparring requirments? I mean aside that you will be required to demostarte sparring at your test? Are you required to win a certain number of matches? I think only Knock down styles had sparring requirements like you had to win a certain number of matches to grade successfully. If that's not the case with your old traditional styles why not test and when it comes to your sparring you just won't do well. So you will still get passed as long as everything else was in order like your kata, bunkai, weapons, kihon, pre-arranged sparring. So on your test your point sparring doesn't look as equel as your other performances. You still get promoted and the rank you think you nned to open a school. Also why not request to demostrate your free sparring with full contact or kick boxing they might go for it.

I would try talking with my Sensei first. Let him know what you want in your training and see if he is willing to provide that to you. If you need to leave him you can still try to leave on good terms and keep him as a male role model. He just will not be your teacher in the martial arts. As far as joining the organization he left I would think of maybe looking at others first. Why would you join an organization that would restrict who you have ties with. It generally a bad I idea to study with a sensei that restricts you from training outside his school. It is also bad if an organization puts those restrictions on you as well.

I'm curious what other styles have as part of their training curriculum. Also what training, if any, do individual dojos add to their style's curriculum. I trained in Matsubayashi-ryu (shorin-ryu) 18 kata 7 yakusoku kumite 5 weapons bo, sai, kama, tonfa, nunchaku can't tell you about how many kata for each but the bo had the most also a couple of training and conditioning drills The dojo I was in added 6 yakusoku kumite to the curriculum. Just before I left the dojo they added 1 kata.

The performance was very sharp. Great job! I'm not one for competition so I can't tell you what to do to get higher scores. Perhaps you can help me though. What style or organization was that competition for? Would solo kata competitors also have to demonstrate bunkai? What is the purpose to of demonstrating bunkai? Is it to show your knowledge of the bunkai or show more physical ability? Now for a tip and perhaps you do this already. At your dojo have a fresh new student attack you and apply your bunkai to them. Give them no specifics other than what type of attack to give you. Tell them nothing of what stance to use or any other stylist preferences a usual karateka prefers to use. On the street not everyone lunges in at you in a perfect forward stance or punches in a perfect straight live. There are other differences also. Going through a variety of different people that are uninitiated in the martial arts or just barely and being able to accommodate each person with their own unique form to do the same attack and still effectively apply your bunkai shows a lot more mastery of your technique. Sorry if you can't use this for competition. Its important to remember that once your competition days are over your need for practical ability for self defense only grows. Keep training hard and smart!

1) As an instructor I would not expect a student to monthly tuition if they were not training consistently. I would offer that student a pay as you go program. 2) I would not as a student pay monthly tuition if I could not train consistently. 3) If one has a job or other obligation that can interrupt consistant training then do not offer them a monthly due paying program. They will most likely not join your school. Offering a pay as you go program will only get you more students with difficult obligations. As a student I think its wrong for schools to lock you down with a contract and try make you pay even if you can't make to class. Gyms use contracts but they open 3 times (or more if they 24hours) the amount a MA school is. Also you can goto a gym at anytime it is open. MA schools usually only allow you to attend the class you slotted for. This factor greatly diminishes ones ability to use their membership.

At my dojo I decided to use more stripes instead of more belts. I use 10 levels before black belt. Although each level is not distinguished by a belt but rather by either a belt or a stripe. I do test for each level. I've been to different martial arts schools and they all did it differently. One school gave stripes but didn't test you for them and the other did test you. This is how I break it down. 10th kyu white belt 9th kyu white belt 1 stripe 8th kyu white belt 2 stripes 7th kyu white belt 3 stripes 6th kyu green belt 5th kyu green belt 1 stripe 4th kyu green belt 2 stripes 3rd kyu brown belt 2nd kyu brown belt 1 stripe 1st kyu brown belt 2 stripes There is a set curriculum for each level. Also I can easily distinguish beginner, intermediate, and advanced students by belt color. white beginner green intermediate brown advanced I'm not sure of how this system motivates students as its the only system I've used. I just never saw a reason to have so many belts.

My home training space is in the garage. It is a 3 car garage. I have permanently set up 2 of the bays as my dojo space. Its fully mated with tatami mats and also underlayment padding since its a concrete floor. I vastly increased the amount of equipment over the past 3.5 years when I started using my home dojo to teach from. Teaching from home to stay involved since I haven't been able to go the dojo anymore. I also added some small lockers for student's belongings. There is my inventory of equipment below. I really can't complain I have a lot for a home dojo but I'm always thinking of ways to make it better. One thing that is a bit of annoyance is that there isn't a door going directly into my home. Another is heat. I'm using kerosene heaters to heat currently. I hope this year to install a propane gas heater. The ceiling is probably about 12 feet and the mat space is 20 x 20. I also have extra mats for the other bay should I want to expand the training area for big or special classes. That would add another 10 x 20. Dojo equipment 18 tatami mats 12 wall mats 1 makiwara 2 Thai bags 2 double end bags 4 heavy bags 6 Medicine balls 3 Jump ropes 10' x 20' roll out mats Full body dummy Upper torso dummy (12)Lockers Landing mat Wooden training weapons Water cooler (2pr)Focus mitts (4)Striking shields (4)Body protectors (1pr)Thai pads (2)Stretching machine Uppercut bag Wooden dummy 20' x 20' regular training mated area 20' x 10' additional mated area for total of 20' x 30' mated area

I'm wondering how instructors figure the rates they charge for testing fees. Thanks now for your input.

Next time at work I'll use the MS office program to make you a certificate to acknowledge your achievement. As of right know though you are fully recognized by me! Send me a self addressed post paid envelope so you can receive it. No charge for the paper and ink.

I'm able to it wouldn't be great but perhaps on par with a majority of the non professional videos up loaded on you tube.

Our testing fees are seperate from our monthly fees. So, it wouldn't really matter in my school. He would pay monthly rates, and follow the school rules. Like I said, though, I would love to work with different approaches on doing different things. I think you missed my point. I'm saying your regular students start saying they will not test because they don't care about rank also. Do you continue to teach them the techniques associated with the next rank when their ready? Or do you say if you don't test then I don't teach you any of the advanced techniques past your current level? Not teaching them their next level of techniques would be unfair when your allowing someone else to train and not test just because they are from another system.

You hit it right on the head. I wasn't sure if anyone would state this. It was one of the questions my first sensei asked me. He also kept asking me that because at first I told him I wasn't sure. Sometimes I think too many schools are concerned with signing up students and not concerned about meeting the goals of the students. There has been a selling trend from the health club industry that has been adopted by the martial arts industry. Which is sign up as many people as you can and lock them in by way of contract. Whatever happened to meeting the needs of the customer. Most schools out there are businesses but they don't take into account the client and their needs. Now personally I don't think that's how the martial arts should be taught. But when you set yourself up as a business and you start pulling up contracts and all that stuff. Then you now put yourself in a position where you should be looking to satisfy your clients. I don't set rates for my students and on the same token I don't accept everyone as a student. Questions I ask are: What is your name? What is your age? (I only teach adults) What type of work do you do? If your a student at what school and what's your major? Where do you live? Have you ever trained before in the martial arts? What is your reason for taking martial art classes? Do you have any injuries or other physical conditions that you need to be concerned about when doing the physical activities? Most questions are to get to know a little about the person to see if I should accept them as a student. The rest are to determine if what I have to offer is right for them based on their goals.

I wonder where I can find that magazine? I have a DVD someone gave me by GM Yates and his org. It was on one step sparring techniques. It was ok.

Thanks for all the advice. Currently I have my own private studio that provides me with almost no overhead. Although I don't have much exposure to the public. I was thinking of an alternate location to get more exposure to possible students. With some certain personal issues that I have right now I won't be looking to start teaching at another location for at least a year. I don't have any goals other than to teach karate and turn out good students. I have a decent job and don't need to use the martial arts to supplement my income. In the past I was a victim of a good dojo gone commercial. So I'm against martial arts as a business, at least for myself.

Alright lets take this a step further. You take this outside student you charge him less because he isn't receiving certification/rank in your style. Your other students want his same deal. They want to train with you but don't care about getting rank or certification in your system or organization. What do you do? For myself this doesn't apply, I don't charge anyway.

What does the fact that he might not be wearing a gi or obi have anything to do with how much you charge him? The testing fees I understand. Some schools include testing fees in their tuition rates and thus do not charge students when they test. In that case charge that student tuition minus the amount increased to include testing because they won't be testing.

Its sounds better than "I don't discuss prices over the phone". What do you do when he asks the question a second time? For me once I hear "I or we don't discuss prices over the phone" I know your school that is part of EFC or some other kind of professional MA organiazation. So with that comes contracts and other fees. I don't want anythinng to do with you.

I seen and have done the technique in Matsubayashi-Ryu, its the third technique in the first yakusoku kumite. It can be seen Nagamine Shoshin's book "The Essence of Okinawan Karate-Do" pg 255. He doesn't give the technique any special name. In Isshin Ryu I've done as part of their basic kihon techniques. It was practiced deflecting a middle punch at the same time as striking into the midsection. In Matsubayashi it was deflecting a face punch as you punched the opponents face. I have seen students of Higaonna Morio of Goju Ryu use the technique in a video he produced many years ago. They used to the head and midsection. In the video there is no name given for the techniques. In his books though he does list a "nagashi-zuki" (flowing punch)in his terminology section. In "Best Karate 2 Fundamentals" by Nakayama Masatoshi on pg's 120-121 the technique is done and 2 examples are given. Both deflecting a face punch. One deflecting/striking with another punch and the other with a spear hand. The technique is called hiji suri-uke (sliding elbow block) in that book. I don't find it surprising in Shotokan they use a different name as they changed all or most of the Okinawan karate terminology to Japanese. It is possible the that Ohtsuka learned the technique from Funakoshi. As well as learning it from jujutsu. In western boxing I have read that a lead (left)jab used to deflect a right cross. In a 2 person yamane ryu bo kata I seen the same technique done. Using the center part of the bo to deflect a bo thrust and using the end of the bo to strike at the face using the same motion. In Silat I seen a form of this done. The attacker steps in to attack with a punch and the defender uses the block not only to deflect the strike but to also break the attacker's kuzushi (balance). You could change the focus of the blocking motion to strike. Being that the end result was to throw the block/attack technique was used to attack the opponents balance for a faster set up for the throw. I have seen in some karate books the technique as described as block/attacking with the same motion. When we think of this in this manner we open up a world of different possibilities. As in the silat application, to attack we don't always have to strike. So we don't follow the same exact physical motion but we use the principle. To block and attack with the same motion. In Nakayama M. in his book "Best Karate 4 Kumite 2" pg.122I see the principle being applied using the mizu-nagare kamae (flowing water position). Let me say that I seen this technique and have practiced in the way you described with no taisabaki to move the defender off the line of the attack. So we are talking about the same technique. This one of those situations where a technique was created at different times by different people in different places. As for the examples of the different karate styles having the same techniques I would venture to say that there was particular teacher that passed the technique to his students. His students then went to teach it in the new styles they then created. I would like to ask in kenjutsu what is the technique called?

This technique I have seen in styles of karate and never in any jujutsu styles. It probably a karate technique. Also I will say that its a technique that is probably not used or explored enough. Aside from learning the technique in a standard yakusoku (pre-arranged) kumite I never saw instructors teach it other than that.

I would just like to know what instructors think is important to know about new students. Thanks in advance for your feed back.

To my understanding the stripes are for teaching titles. The one stripe is for Renshi usually godan to rokudan The two stripes are for Kyoshi usually nanadan to hachidan the three stipes are for Hanshi usually kudan to judan in some systems only the head of the style will be allowed to be a hanshi. Although others may be qualified for that title. If I remember correctly those using stripes to show their level dan will use red stripes. While gold stripes are used to show the wearers teaching titles. They donot use red and gold stripes together on one belt. You can find an excellent article at https://www.gojuryu.net Look for the two part article named "Rank and Titles" under the Nagvigation section. Its in the second part where you'll see an explain on the stripes.