jaedeshi

Here is my question: What if a practitioner from another style came to your school, and just wanted to work out with your class, on a regular basis (lets say as often as you meet in a week), but had no interest in advancing in your style? He just wants to work out, learn the techniques, applications, etc. Would you allow this? How would you approach it? What belt would you require them to wear? I wanted to throw this out, and see what you all thought. I think it would be interesting to have such a subject in a class. Excellent question! I would allow it. I would tell the student that for the purpose of letting other people in the dojo know his skill and knowledge level, he would have to wear the rank belt I assign him. The belt I would assign all depends on his skill level. In truth he is advancing in your style because as he is ready for next level of techniques he will be taught them. It makes no difference in my dojo as I have no testing fees etc or have any affiliations with any type of organizations. I don't even give out certificates to students. I guess your question applies differently to commercial, profit driven, and affiliated schools. Those schools often charge students for rank. So this student get to advance without the fees associated with gaining rank (testing, belt, certificate, and registration charges). Is that fair, that an outside student pays less and inside student pays more? If your regular students don't care about the rank advancement in your style or organization will they ask for the same? I think they will and they should. Also note that this depends on your teaching structure. If you allow your students to learn whatever they can without adhering to strict syllabus. For example these are green belt techniques so only green belts and above practice them. I was once part of a school where you learned advanced sets that were not required for the rank I was currently in. So I was very happy with not testing. I wasn't losing out on anything except testing fees. I look forward to hear what others have to say.

Hi ps1 not a bad demostration at all. thank you for sharing! Jae

Does anyone know how to go about opening a martial arts program at a rec or community center? Also anything I should be concerned about? Thanks for any help you can offer.

It really helps for brick breaking with your fists. I hardly see how injuring your hand by punching a hard object, for the sole purpose of punching other hard objects, could be of any benefit. I believe in knuckle toughening for this reason. As we are all humans and most of the times we never do anything perfectly added with the fact that your not always in control in the situation that you are in, mistakes happen. Putting that in context. Lets say your sparring or in a actual fight you might accidentally miss your intended target and hit something with your fist that you shouldn't. An example would be aiming for the face and hittng the skull instead or your opponent and striking a wall or something else. I heard of these things happening to others. Perhaps some knuckle toughening could have saved a few broken hands in some cases or better yet lost fights. Aside of that. As someone else here mentioned already the exercises for conditioning the knuckles also strengthen the the proper alignment in the wrist for a forefist punch.

I have a small school with about 15 students currently. I teach for free and accept donations to pay for cleaning suplies, water, and heat. The best thing is I give people a chance to experience the martial arts that wouldn't be able to afford it. The second thing I don't need to leave the house to train.

My style is called Koryu Uchinadi Kenpo-jutsu. Previously was into Matsbayashi Shorin-Ryu before that Shingitai Karate (Shotokan-Goju-Okinawa Kenpo mix)

Hello everyone I'm Jae from Long Island, New York. New to karate forums. I'm a karateka that started my training in 1987. For the most part I've been a traditonal karateka but also trained in other arts such as jujutsu and kobudo. I look forward to communicating with everyone here on karate forums. Anyone else from NY? Jae