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| I'm new to the martial arts community. I was wondering what are some things that I should look for in finding a great school?
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| That really depends on you. First, try to figure out yourself: are you a puncher, a kicker, or a grappler. Do you have acrobatic skills? This is a plan vanilla of putting things into its own category: Puncher: Karate Kicker: Tae Kwon Do Grapper: Jiu Jitsu If you have acrobatic skills, check out wushu or something kung-fu like. There are also styles like Aikido that are very fluid. It does not have the same punch and kick routines as the others. Filipino fighting ars such as Kali are great too. As for schools, a school is only good as the instructors. Once you figure out what style you're interested in, visit a couple of schools, watch the beginners and advance class and how the instructor respects the students and how students tend to respect the instructor. Don't sign up for a long term commitment right away. Schools usually have a couple of weeks of free classes for free or minimal fee.
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Find the real reasons why you want to get involved in Martial Arts. Understand that traditional arts is an endeavor that takes more than one hour a week. Training will affect what you do. If you decided to train seriously better start telling all your friend that the weekend boozing , crack smoking , heroin shooting , cocaine snorting pastime will have to be put on hold until you realized that its a lot of work to be involved in martial arts. Tell them you will be back in a week or so...
Prince Loeffler
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| Who is teaching? A 15 y/o 1st Dan, run! There needs to be an adult instructor within sight. You can tell allot by watching a class, is the instructor yelling or instructing? Kids are fine, but how are they acting? Is there general respect for adults by the kids, or are they running around like it's recess? I would tell someone to go to class early and see what everyone is doing before class. Do they just stand around and talk or are they stretching out and practicing technique (forms, SD, one-steps)
Adam D. Huntley
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| good point. another thing I've encountered is that some schools don't spend the time to stretch out and proper warm up. Make sure you are looking for a school who's concerned about your health and safety, not just your tuition money.
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Scott (7/4/2006)
good point. another thing I've encountered is that some schools don't spend the time to stretch out and proper warm up. Make sure you are looking for a school who's concerned about your health and safety, not just your tuition money. For White-Green belts, I agree....but they pay me to teach TKD to them, I'm no drill sgt. I'll teach them how to warm up, no question, but once they reach a certian level of training they need to start to learn to be a bit more independant. But your point is not lost, the instructor needs to care about safety over everything else.
Adam D. Huntley
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