KarateMom Posted April 8, 2002 Posted April 8, 2002 the dojo I go to is small but the instructors are top notch! ~*KarateMom*~
MonkeyNinja Posted April 9, 2002 Posted April 9, 2002 I would have to agree with Yoda, and some of the other guys/girls. Smaller classes is better. Because you can give more attention to your students. Size of the dojo? Shouldn't matter. I teach and train, I kid you not, at an elementary school playground. Why? Well, I was looking for relatively quite place to train. I have much of a yard to train. So one night, about 3yrs. ago my buddy and went to this playground and just had fun. Now I have 5 students, and lots of kids in the neighborhood come over to watch. Even the local police stop by and watch us. No problems. I do one day hope to get a place downtown. I have found several places that would be perfect. But the rent is at times outragous!! Especially in the historical district. MonkeyNinja
MonkeyNinja Posted April 9, 2002 Posted April 9, 2002 I would have to agree with Yoda, and some of the other guys/girls. Smaller classes is better. Because you can give more attention to your students. Size of the dojo? Shouldn't matter. I teach and train, I kid you not, at an elementary school playground. Why? Well, I was looking for relatively quite place to train. I have much of a yard to train. So one night, about 3yrs. ago my buddy and went to this playground and just had fun. Now I have 5 students, and lots of kids in the neighborhood come over to watch. Even the local police stop by and watch us. No problems. I do one day hope to get a place downtown. I have found several places that would be perfect. But the rent is at times outragous!! Especially in the historical district. MonkeyNinja
G95champ Posted April 9, 2002 Posted April 9, 2002 I have trained inmany places. Fro nice dogo's to ones that were just a empty room in an old building. We have held classes in the gyms of schools and the local YMCA. Been inside and outside. On Wood, Carpet, tile, grass and even blacktop. In all cases each had something special to offer. Again its the quality of your teacherand you attitude of the class that mades the dojo not the building. (General George S. Patton Jr.) "It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory."
van_damme Posted April 9, 2002 Posted April 9, 2002 Listen to this..i train in a CHURCH!!..dats right a church..lolz..well its not a proper church,its more of a chaple..lolz..and its average size really..its cool anyway. When you put water into a cup,it becomes the cup.When you put water in a T-Pot,it becomes the T-Pot..be water my friend!!
Thaifoot Posted April 9, 2002 Posted April 9, 2002 I train in a scouts hut, which is really small, but our instructors great and there are only about ten of us so it doesn't matter.
Phantasmatic Posted April 9, 2002 Posted April 9, 2002 On 2002-03-03 11:58, three60roundhouse wrote:On 2002-03-03 11:12, Phantasmatic wrote: The number of people in the dojo matters because if there are many people in the school then the relationship between you and the instructor will not become strong. I totally disagree. I have very strong relationships with many of the instructors at my dojang. If you are respectful and give 110%, any instructor will enjoy having you in their class, whether it has 5 students or 50. I said this because my other dojo I went to had 300 students and one teacher, it was just a bad 3 years of my martial arts life. My old sensei always had too much on his mind because of the overflow of students. He didn't really care about the newcomers at all. You say that even if you have 50 students in the class that you would be noticed, well, how about tacking on another 250!! "Which one is more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?" - Obi Wan Kenobi
gracie_jujitsu_is1 Posted April 19, 2002 Posted April 19, 2002 it is the people in the dojo that matter most...but having room to grapple without rolling on top of people is nice too our class size varries from about 8 to 15 people from session to session and this becomes an issue alot of the time, (we do danzan ryu and brazillian jujitsu) perhaps more "stand up" oriented martial arts need less space? pull them in, take them down, choke them out.
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