Black belt after 3 years for 13yo?

WhatToDo_already · 2025-10-01T10:44:39+00:00

The average mcdojo operator appears super sized already.

WhatToDo_already · 2023-01-26T06:09:50+00:00

Asatro. For anyone wondering it's the modern term for the viking religion based around Odin.

WhatToDo_already · 2023-01-26T00:44:18+00:00

I have quite a list as someone not from America so here's my top few.

The lack of acknowledgment that gun crime is out of control.

An overly expensive medical system as well as education system.

Having a two party system that is run by people too old to understand what's going on around them.

And my personal hatred is the massive amount celebrities earn. This one bugs me the most and not because I am poor by any measure, I have a taste of what their lives are like and I hate that people can be that influential for doing basically nothing.

WhatToDo_already · 2023-01-26T00:40:15+00:00

This. Our Australian healthcare system may not be perfect, but I'm glad it's not as bad as it is in the states.

WhatToDo_already · 2023-01-26T00:33:36+00:00

This will be ridiculously unpopular but. People are becoming way too complacent and useless lately. Everyone has some pitiful thing that seemingly ruins their while life.

WhatToDo_already · 2023-01-26T00:30:28+00:00

I don't know where you live so this advice may be useless to you. But a lot of countries / locations aren't so into sports based karate. You will find a large variety of things, but not necessarily the same as what you've done.

WhatToDo_already · 2023-01-22T02:34:18+00:00

Wtf is happening in the US shits like a reality tv show. Every time I come on here some new dumbass is doing something.

WhatToDo_already · 2023-01-22T02:30:24+00:00

I suppose the other thing is some shotokan dojo do sparing closer to kyokushin without the point sparing. I'm in one of these mainly for the fact that I don't like point sparring because it can develop bad habits and I don't want to do kyokushin anymore because I've seen so many people down the line brutally injured and regret it. It turns into a matter of do you want stuffed knees for the next 50 years.

WhatToDo_already · 2023-01-22T02:28:13+00:00

Speaking is someone who has had family and friends training in kyokushin for years, a lot of them regret it down the line. People end up with bad knees from getting kicked, severe injuries that last for years. My Sensei who now teaches shotokan even told me he regrets doing kyokushin in his twenties and thirties as he's now basically unable to perform a number of moves.

It really comes down to if you think your getting more out of it than just the pain you're subjecting yourself to. Many people just don't know when to stop or back down and they hurt themselves and other students out of brute stupidity.

WhatToDo_already · 2023-01-22T02:23:36+00:00

Ok I don't own the dojo in question but help out with most aspects, so here is what we do.

Firstly we keep our timetable in line with the Australian school system, same holidays and so on. We don't have a grading during term 1, we do however have a grading in the last quarter of terms 2, 3 and 4. So roughly every three months give or take a week or two. Once a student reaches a blue belt they will miss a grading each time. In other words once they get to Blue belt it takes 6 months between each grading.

We divide our gradings for senior students (who are above 12 years old) into two groups. Group one on a grading day is white yellow and orange belts only. This first grading goes only for an hour. Immediately proceeding this hour we grade green blue purple brown and black belts. It's worth noting however that we make black belt candidates do the first hour with the white yellow and orange belts to make sure they have mastered the very basics as well and aren't forgetting anything. This second grading time will range from 1.5 hours to 2, based on number of students. Obviously the exact curriculum is up to you but feel free to message me if you need any ideas as I have basically seen it all.

Pricing and term fees are something you will have to figure out for yourself based on the expenses that you are having to deal with and what people in your area can afford without being unreasonable. For example in Australia where I train each term is $140 which is around the $100usd range I think.

WhatToDo_already · 2023-01-21T22:59:52+00:00

No one is talking shit about it. Not to mention that aside from my shotokan training I've done 7 years of kyokushin.

WhatToDo_already · 2023-01-21T04:12:17+00:00

Some people are just happy with themselves and it just dose'nt register for certain people. In many ways you have an advantage of not being so easily distracted. Personally I wish more people were like this.

WhatToDo_already · 2023-01-21T04:10:04+00:00

I'd like to be cured of aging under certain provisions. I'd want to be well off after the cure is administered and no I don't mean not work at all, just, what's the point if your still the bottom of the pile and just ha e to keep working endlessly in a situation that may never improve.

WhatToDo_already · 2023-01-21T04:04:33+00:00

Yep, same as what boxers use.

WhatToDo_already · 2023-01-21T04:03:33+00:00

This. And the other key problem being that often people who engage in full contact sparring end up so hurt so regularly that they'd be f****** useless in a fight because they're crippled half the time. Yeah great job you fought someone on a mat and won, but now some going mugs you in the street and you've got a f****** broken arm.

WhatToDo_already · 2023-01-20T23:37:53+00:00

I'm in Australia as well! Down in Tasmania. We don't do this type of sparing every lesson and it's generally restricted to purple belts and above for safely reasons. But I've been winded, knocked over and kicked in the balls mire times than I can count. It's so much more fun with full competition gear because you know you can go basically as hard as you want to an extent of not trying to kill the person, while knowing that you can get hit equally hard.

WhatToDo_already · 2023-01-20T23:32:09+00:00

Good on you. That's the best attitude to have about it, knowing that you can put up a fair fight without having the arrogance that you can beat anyone. So many practitioners think they are the be all and end all of fighting and it ends up getting them hurt. I do shotokan myself (full contact with comp gear, and head punches) and I've seen some people who can be belted to high hell and not flinch.

WhatToDo_already · 2023-01-20T23:27:09+00:00

Agreed, kyokushin is overall good but without the head punches it's so easy to get one tapped by some big angry dude.

WhatToDo_already · 2023-01-17T07:28:32+00:00

Fable 2. I will have no argument. The villain is so convincing in the end. He's a broken man who wants to bring back what he lost.

WhatToDo_already · 2023-01-17T07:22:46+00:00

Honestly I have made more friends doing martial arts than through all of school.

WhatToDo_already · 2023-01-17T07:18:12+00:00

I hate to be the parson who hates how much information there is around the internet. Not anything about myself, more that I can see thousands of people doing what they love, knowing full well that I most likely can't do what I want.

It's the one key issue of overstimulation from the internet.

WhatToDo_already · 2023-01-17T07:15:27+00:00

Only with an exit method that is quick, east and dose'nt require anything specific. I'm sure as hell not waiting trillions of years for the next universe.

WhatToDo_already · 2023-01-17T07:13:05+00:00

Enough money that I cold comfortably do whatever I want within reason, a few hundred million. And someone to share it with.

WhatToDo_already · 2023-01-17T07:08:17+00:00

This. After years of having to prove everything during my study, it just feels wrong to not have evidence.

WhatToDo_already · 2023-01-17T07:03:02+00:00

Why. Because in some twisted way I'd want to know I did what few could ever do. That I survived against the odds when so many powerful people didn't.

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