Woman head instructors: Where Are They?

[pineapple]

ladyj.

 

Thanks for your reply!

 

Best wishes on your future in the martial arts!

[Krazy Carol]

My dojo is owned by a husband and wife team.

 

My instructor when I began training at the school was a woman in her 50's... she began training in her 30's she is amazing, just amazing.

 

Even though there are many women at my rank Nikyu... there is only 4 woman at the back belt rank and 1 girl at junior black belt.

 

How ever opening soon in NH, a woman from my association will be opening her doors

[pressureguy]

http://winstonstableford.com/women.html

 

Click there for lots of women martial art links.

 

pressureguy

[senna_trem]

It is because the martial arts we mostly practice comes from asia and women still have a very traditional roles in their cultures.

[pressureguy]

senna_trem Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 11:56 pm Post subject:

 

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"It is because the martial arts we mostly practice comes from asia and women still have a very traditional roles in their cultures. "

 

 

 

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How does that influence women of today though?

 

Women here in the US don't care about the roles of women in other cultures when choosing to train in the martial art, so how does that affect them?

 

pressureguy

[senna_trem]

Well, I figure if Sosai Oyama thought women were too fragile to break tiles with their hands then he did not train many women. Also, if he did not train many women and passed on to his students the whole "women are more fragile" thing then we're probably still trying to get out of it. Women, as you may have noticed, like to be in packs. And going into a dojo where women are a minority most of the time will put off a lot of women. Women aren't as physical as men, they don't enjoy being able to punch each other as much as men. Many moms probably don't want their little girl going into karate as much as they'd like them to go into dance.

[Ben Martin]

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Edited October 5, 2013 by Ben Martin

[SloMo]

I used to havce that problem with sparring women until my instructor ( who happened to be a woman ) put me up against a woman who basically rode me up and down the dojang.

 

I got over my apprehension with sparring women fairly quickly after that.

 

I see the number of women instructors increasing steadily.

 

I think it's important for women to spar men. I never believed in the "weaker sex" mentallity and we try hard to knock that out of all of our students, male and female.

 

One of our Black Belts was in a tournament where they decided to put the male and females 14-16 in the same group. She was very tenative sparring until the first guy hit her in the face.... big mistake.... she cleaned up after that. We were most proud that she didn't draw back after getting hit but rather did the opposite.

 

There are many gender notions that need to be drummed out of both sexes. I know that I have a lot to learn and un-learn myself.

[Ben Martin]

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Edited October 5, 2013 by Ben Martin

[RavenX]

It's been funny reading this topic, because my school falls into the pattern of having a male head instructer, and then having a pretty even distribution of males and females throughout the school. The teaching staff is actually completely even in my school (aside from the sensei's, there are 4 males and 1 female...) but the rest of the staff consists of an even number of female's to males. Honestly, the reason I think there aren't as many female head instructers is because they are worlds better at Cardio Kickboxing and such. That's where they shine, and the karate aspect is where male's shine. A lot of karate dojos that I know of have multiple programs like that, and the women are much better at the fitness aspect then the men are ^_^ just a thought...