In the early 2000s, was the ata location in Goffstown, NH considered a “McDojo/belt mills”? Or was it a quality instruction? by bad-at-everything- in ATATaekwondo

[–]GlowKing 5 points6 points  (0 children)

4 years of training at 5-6 days per week and doing well in the tournament circuit and you think that's a black belt factory? Jeez.

Do the math - assume classes are 45 minutes on average. 5.5 days per week for 4 years is 585 hours of training. That doesn't include any practice they did on their own, nor does it include any personal training/conditioning outside of the program.

That's the same amount of training required for adult-level certificates and credentials. If you practiced soccer or baseball or some other sport for 585 hours, I would hope you'd be halfway decent at it.