tessone

Does the fact that this thread died a while back mean there are no new members who study Korean martial arts? I recently began studying Kuk Sool Won. It's my first martial art (with the exception of a few karate classes in childhood), but I've really fallen in love with it. We work very very hard at my school, but you learn to enjoy the pain you feel the next morning... _________________ Chris Tessone White Belt, Kuk Sool Won http://polyglut.net [ This Message was edited by: tessone on 2002-04-24 10:13 ]

As for pushups, we do a lot of them. I study Kuk Sool Won. Most of us are at Kuk Sool because we want to be absolutely the best we can be, so they're not really punishment. We'll get 10 for not saying "sir" or not giving a kiap on a kick or punch, but no one grumbles about them.

I think the really crucial thing is how long the instructor has been teaching, personally. A friend of mine is 2nd dahn in Kuk Sool (soon to take his first test for 3rd dahn), and the kinds of mistakes he makes in teaching aren't because he doesn't know the material well enough, but because he doesn't have as much experience in pedagogy. It's the same in most any discipline. The chief instructor is a 5th dahn, and the reason he's an amazing teacher is because he's been doing this so long, and he's watched hundreds of students make the same mistakes I do. When he sees me do something wrong, he has a whole arsenal of ways to correct it, and if I don't respond to one way, he can try it a different way. First post, by the way. Hi everybody.