the head instrucotr is great. but the assistant instructor who is in charge of %26quot;endurance%26quot; once made us do 100 push ups at once when we were not used to doing any mor ethan 20. also there were women and of all weights and it was near impossible for many to do even a few correctly. but he pushed. he also seemed to take great pleasure in %26quot;gift wrapping%26quot; the lead instructor for a demonstration. he likes to bark ordres like hes a military captain. the guy personality wise is a zero. how is he helping to make his students better karatekas by yelling and drilling them way far beyond their limits? if you hadnt paid any money down to this school yet, what would you do?|||The man is an idiot. There is a difference between a strict coach that pushes you and tries to make you the best you can be and a coach that just wants to puff his chest and act tough.
I%26#039;m a martial arts instructor, and I do EVERY excercise with the class as I teach. I do this to show them that I am not just barking orders, I%26#039;m helping them get into shape, and showing them that its possible to complete the workout.
It appears that the assistant is abusing his powers as an instructor, and is abusing the respect that is being given to him.
All good instructors will push you to your limits, but a bad instructor will see this and think that he must push you beyond your capacity.
This is a BAD thing because sooner or later, you%26#039;ll stop doing the push-up in the correct form becuase you know you still got 50 more to go, and this will cuase you to do excercises in the incorrect form, just so that you can get through class.
The man, like I said, is an idiot. Don%26#039;t pay money so that this guy can yell at you for an hour while he walks around puffing his chest out.
Go to a school that focuses on quality martial arts training. Not boot camp.|||sounds like the first karate kid movie.
if you aren%26#039;t there to be pushed to your limits and beyond, then regardless of whether you paid or not, find a more suitable karate environment.
But if you are in less than ideal physical condition, I hope you are smart enough not to put your health at risk just because some arrogant jerk is standing over you yelling, %26quot;Move it, move it, Move it.!%26quot; Try Tae Bo until your physical condition improves and then go back to karate.|||Being a soldier, I know what you%26#039;re typing about and it is all about pushing people to their limits. Most people will half-arss and cut corners in their training. That%26#039;s why we have trainers in the first place. What a person can%26#039;t do they won%26#039;t do no matter who is telling them to do it, so ya might as well tell people to do their best. The personality of whoever trains you doesn%26#039;t matter, just the quality of instruction.|||No matter how mean he seems to be, the guy has no real control over you. Remember, your paying him, and so you have the real control. Don%26#039;t make him ruin your lessons. He%26#039;s sounds like a real jerk, but don%26#039;t let him get in your head. People like that feed off of that. If you like karate, keep doing it. If he starts to seriously harm you mentally or physically, try another studio. Until then, try to think positive. After all, it should be fun. If not, why waste your time do something you don%26#039;t like doing?|||Why are you at this school? What do you want out of this martial arts class?
Seems a little extreme for martial arts. Its one thing to push people past their limits, its another to try to use PT as punishment if 1 person is not in perfect sync. That breeds negative peer pressure and negative self image. Military uses these things to break you down but they also build you back up. Not sure if he is doing that. Those sorts of training are done by professionals that have pych training and education. The military drill sergeants are highly trained professionals, people that just go thru that sort of training are not qualified to use it to train others.
It sounds a little hard core and if its not your cup of tea find a different school. Let the lead instructor know why you leave.
Enjoy martial arts, don%26#039;t make it a chore or something you dread or you wont stick with it.|||I agree with Joe Mama.
I had a wonderful first martial art instructor that I would have done ANYTHING for (as far as drills) because he INSPIRED me to do my best. He didn%26#039;t beat it out of me, he didn%26#039;t make fun of people, and he gave alternative drills for those that couldn%26#039;t do certain moves - until they COULD do them. He had high expectations of the students from his school, but he was not unrealistic or cruel. Unfortunately, he had to close but he was a wonderful example and I applied what I learned from him to find my second school.
If you leave, let the head instructor know why - he deserves to know that he has a jerk running people off.|||I agree with Money Shot.. If it%26#039;s not what you wanted out of martial arts training - Leave! (but tell the Master why you%26#039;re going) I would leave even if I had paid up front..|||I train at an excellent school where the instructor%26#039;s are all very accomplished professional fighters. Nobody ever pulls any of this ego crap. And I%26#039;d put our student%26#039;s conditoning and skills up against students from any other schools.
I am also ex-infantry, with a CIB, so I understand perfectly well that a hard-*** drill sergeant approach to training can have a place when training a large group of militrary recruits to be combat ready in a short period of time. It%26#039;s a ego-trip in a school environment like you have described, and in my opinion there%26#039;s no place for it. Basic training is a total immesion environment where recruits must be pounded into shape and motivated no matter what. If somebody paying to take ma classes is not self-motivated enough to bust it out on there own, I don%26#039;t believe acting like you%26#039;re the dude from Full Metal Jacket for students who are only coming into to train for an hour or two will do anything but alienate people. If I encountered it at a school I was trying out, I%26#039;d leave before the warm-ups were finished.|||The more he pushes, the harder the training. The more effective the training. The more experienced you are.
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