How long should a lesson be?

[karatekid1975]

Our classes are 45 minutes long We stretch before class on our own. Then we have a quicky warm up in the beginning of class. But some of us stay after to work on stuff, so it works out to be about 1.5 hours.

My TSD school had one hour classes for adults (I don't remember the kids times). It was always the last class. 9 times outta 10, the adult class always ran over time (about 15 to 20 minutes over). Plus a bunch of us were dojang dwellers. We be there after class for about an hour as well. I had a key to the place (I cleaned the dojang in the morning), so my instructor would say "Lock up when you're done. I'm outta here."

[Oahngoji]

My karate class takes up to 2 hours long, and sometimes i still think there are a lot of things that we did not cover. Karate has so much to learn that the time can be infinite.

[Fish]

Which club are you with Chirath? I go to a dojo in South Woodford with a sensei under the UKA. We do a fair bit of point sparring, but we also learn the basics, kata and so on and from time to time we have practical self defence sessions.

Our class is two hours. We start with the junior session (1 hr long), but intermediates/ seniors are encouraged to attend that session. The senior/ intermediate session is one hour immediately after that, making two hours in all. It works well for me - the first hour is gentler, and gives me a chance to warm up, as well as trying to encourage some of the kids who are there.

[Uechi Kid]

For brand new people one hour seems to be about the best amount of time. For more advanced people an hour and a half to two hour works out well. Anything more than two hours is useually to much.

[Hogosha]

my lessons are from 7:00 - 9:30

[italian_guy]

1 1/2 hours in my karate class (I take two classes in a row) and 1 1/4 in my JKD class.

[aefibird]

Beginner karate/kobudo classes are 1 hour (although they usually over-run slightly). Intermediate karate classes are 1&1/2 hours and advanced are 2 hours.

My Wing Chun classes are 2 hours and my Tai Chi classes are 2&1/2 hours.