Troubles at my dojo

[Azula]

First of all, im a fast learner and I take what I do seriously. Meaning, when I started my karate around 4-5 months ago, I would come 5 times and also train the other 2 days at home or at the park. When we didn't do a few of the stretches i would do them at home. Anyhow, after a while until now, I progressed much faster than most others in my group, being the beginner/intermediate class as im a yellow belt 8th kyu(skipped 1st yellow at 9th). What angers me is that there are both adults and kids at our classes, and most of the kids are not doing it by choice and could care less, so they come about 1-2 times a week, and so do some of the adults. Because of these individuals my training is left behind tremendously. We do partner work and kumite, as well as practice Katas together, and I was doing better than some of the green belts, and at my dojo green is right before brown, which is before black. There is nothing more I can learn with some of the class(not all) being so behind. Since I train in the headquarters[where the grandmaster (also founder of the art]resides, there is an offer to train with Soke for an hour class and i've to pay somewhere around 50$ which is too much. What can I do?

[alsey]

you do it better than the green belts? excellent! think how good you'll be when you're a green a belt. don't worry too much about progressing through the ranks or learning new techniques. get as good as you can at what you have been taught. if you're not learning anything, then you're not putting your mind to it enough. you should learn something everytime you do a technique.

this sort of thing happens to everyone. try to partner up with the more serious minded students, and speak to your sensei about it.

[Azula]

I don't care much about the ranks, but the ranks matter as far as what you're learning. So if the others don't progress and im yellow, i'll be stuck doing the same things over and over. As opposed to if i were a green belt, maybe i could learn new things. Yellow belts aren't expected to do too much and thus aren't thought.

[AngelaG]

Are you sure that you are as good as you think you are? Perhaps you are still at the stage of being unconsciously incompetent?

[Azula]

im sure, because i've even been told by almost all of the instructors.

[Azula]

btw, im not saying im exceptional, all im saying is i take it seriously but many do not, and i don't think i deserve to be "held back" because of some people who could care less. I ne'er said i was good or bad.

[alsey]

I don't care much about the ranks, but the ranks matter as far as what you're learning. So if the others don't progress and im yellow, i'll be stuck doing the same things over and over.

that's not necessarily a bad thing. due to moving around the country and changing dojos and stuff, i havn't really progressed much in jujitsu ranks. i've been doing pretty much the same things for about two years now, and guess what? i absolutely own most people in the dojo at those techniques, including those several ranks above me.

keep doing the same things over and over, and get very good at them. then when you go up in rank, you'll be better prepared to learn the new techniques, and you'll be better than most of your peers.

the old masters used to practice one or two kata in their entire lifetime. you've been doing this for five months. be patient, you'll get to the new stuff soon enough.

[Azula]

I think im just going to have to train other things on my own and perfect those of which i do at my dojo.

[GOM]

If you are training with children, then I would say look for something else. Children and adults should not train together IMO.

[Azula]

i know but this place is the best around my area, until i move out of the area then i don't know what i'll do.