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Alpha One Four
Yellow Belt
Joined: 24 Oct 2012
Posts: 37
Location: Joplin, Missouri
Styles: Karate (Various Styles), Kuk Sool Won, American Boxing
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 Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 10:18 am Post subject: My terrible TKD experience. |
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Btw, this is not a rip on TKD, but the instructor. So anyway, I am known by my Goju sparring partner as Mule because of my powerful kicks. So, I kid of wanted to go to a TKD school and see if I compared to them. I read online about a place with a 30-day trial. "SWEET," I thought.
So I get to the place and the instructor is your typical guy who probably got picked on in school. I didn't judge. I shook his hand respectfully like I do when I meet anyone, and without knowing me, he clearly squeezes my hand as hard as he can instead of a respectful firm grip. Didn't bother me too bad, so I took my first free class.
He then proceeded to pair me with a 6'6 2nd Dan black belt to spar with. I'm like, "ok, he is just pairing me with someone who has good control." WRONG. I saw him whisper to him in the corner while we were gearing up. Okay, I'm getting annoyed by this point. First thing he does is go for a full speed kick to the head. I caught it, and I said "This is supposed to be light contact." He then tries a spinning back kick, and I tackled him out of rage and started a ground and pound. They then told me not to come back. What the heck?
Bad school, bad instructor, bad experience.
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bushido_man96
KF Sensei
Joined: 31 Mar 2006
Posts: 30188
Location: Hays, KS
Styles: Taekwondo, Combat Hapkido, Aikido, GRACIE, Police Krav Maga, SPEAR
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| Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 10:48 am Post subject: |
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I'm sorry to hear this. As a TKD instructor, this kind of behavior irritates me. I don't know if this guy thought you were trying to come in and prove something, or what, but the tact he took was completely out of line, and very disrespectful.
Did you inform the instructor of your prior experiences? If so, then like I said, I'm ashamed of his approach here. If you didn't, then I think this guy has some issues with how he runs his school.
At any rate, I hope you don't judge every TKD school to be like this one, because we are not.
Again, I'm sorry to hear about this experience for you. Its a shame your exposure to TKD had to be negative.
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Alpha One Four
Yellow Belt
Joined: 24 Oct 2012
Posts: 37
Location: Joplin, Missouri
Styles: Karate (Various Styles), Kuk Sool Won, American Boxing
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I didn't tell him about my previous experience. That's why it aggravated me so much. It's like he wanted me to see how great they were. It backfired. They were awful.
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darksoul
Purple Belt
Joined: 19 Jul 2012
Posts: 548
Location: Montréal, QC, Canada
Styles: Shaolin Kempo
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| Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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| I didn't tell him about my previous experience. That's why it aggravated me so much. It's like he wanted me to see how great they were. It backfired. They were awful. |
Sadly there are bad people in every style. By bad I mean morally inept and egotistical individuals.
I'd say look for another TKD school to see if they are a better fit for your cross-training/experiment.
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JohnnyB
Orange Belt
Joined: 14 Apr 2012
Posts: 151
Location: Athens, Greece
Styles: Shotokan 2nd Kyu
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Wow... I can't believe I'm reading that.
In your first day they put you through full contact sparring when they knew u had no MA experience! You should have stayed there and finish them up one by one!
They said: ''Leave and don't come back...''
You should have answered: ''Make me!''
Damn... u should go to that other infamous MMA forum (that we are not allowed to mention here) and post your experience and name the club and instructor so that everyone knows what's going on in that dojo.
I have heard a similar experience from a girl friend of mine when she took her first TKD lesson they hit her in the stomach so hard (with protective gear on) that she couldn't continue the lesson and she never came back after this. |
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bushido_man96
KF Sensei
Joined: 31 Mar 2006
Posts: 30188
Location: Hays, KS
Styles: Taekwondo, Combat Hapkido, Aikido, GRACIE, Police Krav Maga, SPEAR
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 10:34 am Post subject: |
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| Alpha One Four wrote: |
| I didn't tell him about my previous experience. That's why it aggravated me so much. It's like he wanted me to see how great they were. It backfired. They were awful. |
That's just nuts. I'm sorry that your experience turned out this way. There are good TKD schools out there. I hope you keep searching.
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Alpha One Four
Yellow Belt
Joined: 24 Oct 2012
Posts: 37
Location: Joplin, Missouri
Styles: Karate (Various Styles), Kuk Sool Won, American Boxing
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| Alpha One Four wrote: |
| I didn't tell him about my previous experience. That's why it aggravated me so much. It's like he wanted me to see how great they were. It backfired. They were awful. |
That's just nuts. I'm sorry that your experience turned out this way. There are good TKD schools out there. I hope you keep searching. |
Thanks, and I know there are great schools out there. Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of options in my area. So, I'm going to stick with my karate and boxing, which is all I can really do. Too bad I don't live near a Kuk Sool school. Ah well. Thanks guys.
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Dobbersky
Black Belt
Joined: 19 Jul 2006
Posts: 1323
Location: Manchester. United Kingdom
Styles: Black Tiger Ashihara Karate Jutsu, Japanese Kickboxing, Cheng Man Ch'ing TaiChi
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I always say, I would rather have a small class of humble martial artists, than huge class of who's.
A shame you had a bad experience. I'm thankful that you could defend yourself against the idiot with the flashy kicks.
A question, was it WTF, ITF, ATA or another TKD derived style like Choi Kwang Do etc?
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bushido_man96
KF Sensei
Joined: 31 Mar 2006
Posts: 30188
Location: Hays, KS
Styles: Taekwondo, Combat Hapkido, Aikido, GRACIE, Police Krav Maga, SPEAR
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DWx
Black Belt
Joined: 17 Jan 2007
Posts: 6455
Location: UK
Styles: Tae Kwon Do & Yang family Tai Chi
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wow the instructor sounds like a right idiot. Sorry you had a bad experience. But don't let this put you off TKD; there are loads of good schools out there.
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on the post.
