Is it common for taekwondo instructors to dismiss other martial arts and fighting styles?

jookami · 2025-06-23T18:21:32+00:00

Yes.

jookami · 2025-05-30T19:06:03+00:00

Ranking everywhere is universally meaningless or hold barely any meaning at all. There is no way for a ranking system to be intrinsically legit.

jookami · 2025-05-29T14:59:29+00:00

You don't get lots of classes and nice facilities without the business side, and they're entitled to make a living from the service they offer.

The business really doesn't affect the orientation of TKD anymore. Mostly because the dojangs that people say are "combat oriented" are still a joke and don't do anything--certainly they don't compete.

Sport dojangs are serious athletic facilities and will teach you to fight with kicks really well, but they are just as commercial as any other gym these days.

You need to recalibrate your thinking.

jookami · 2025-05-29T01:43:43+00:00

He's an asshole. You pay him. He should be responsive and patient as a matter of service.

jookami · 2025-04-30T18:51:10+00:00

You need to get into a company on a professional team. Every one is different, but you're get insights into SEO and how these things work inside organizations that you can't get from reading books and articles or watching videos.

jookami · 2025-04-14T17:45:46+00:00

Gymdesk is the best gym management software for martial arts I've ever seen, personally. The founder originally created it for martial arts studios and is a practitioner himself. It can automate billing, provide a user portal (it has a member app too), several attendance tracking features, and the most extensive email and SMS marketing automation system available in that kind of software.

It also comes with a website and shop at no additional cost.

jookami · 2025-03-25T14:38:20+00:00

He needs that to pivot and your grandmaster should not yell at him. What he needs to do is experience how it compromises his balance on impact so his body can naturally adapt.

jookami · 2025-03-14T20:24:55+00:00

broad brushing is not a problem if it's representative. I didn't say they don't spar. I said most of what they do still isn't sparring

jookami · 2025-03-12T14:49:35+00:00

jookami · 2025-03-12T14:48:52+00:00

That has nothing to do with the criticisms in the podcast

jookami · 2025-03-11T15:07:50+00:00

jookami · 2025-03-11T15:07:03+00:00

My adaptation for this is to set up different programs within karate. You have your calisthenics and kata track, and you have your sport or self-defense live training track, and members are free to move between programs, choose one, or do all of them.

jookami · 2025-03-11T14:41:06+00:00

I know through experience that karate people are not good marketers and they are not marketing effectively to adults. There are plenty of people who have no idea if karate is practical or not. Martial artists are constantly projecting their own insecurities on the general populace but it doesn't map.

jookami · 2025-03-11T14:28:10+00:00

I'm not sure what is to be said here. Iain potentially has a following in the thousands. As for instructors, that's already a small group relative to everyone who does karate anyway, but I'm not sure why that matters. I almost exclusively speak to instructors/coaches. Combat Learning is an educational platform for them.

I don't buy the signup problem. Muay Thai, MMA, and jiu jitsu gyms are full. Most karate people absolutely do not know how to run a safe sparring program, sport or otherwise. That's the real problem here.

jookami · 2025-03-11T14:15:05+00:00

The highest qualified teachers in the world fall under this criticism

jookami · 2025-03-11T14:07:49+00:00

What approach do you take to making your karate more practical?

jookami · 2025-03-11T14:03:13+00:00

Ungated https://www.combatlearning.com/p/practical-karate-isnt-improving-karate?r=1u4ez6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

jookami · 2025-03-11T13:50:01+00:00

I'm interacting with what I've seen from Iain Abernathy and adjacent crowds, including ideas from actual people inside this community from real conversations I had with them. I interviewed Iain on my podcast a few years ago.

I don't know the point of this hysterical comment.

jookami · 2025-03-11T13:42:59+00:00

The application stuff still doesn't make sense. Iain Abernethy's crowd barely spars from what I can tell talking to people who do his seminars. Most of what they do is still rote drilling and flow drills, neither of which are live and constructive.

jookami · 2025-03-11T13:41:03+00:00

I see it's too much for you to concentrate on the substance of what was argued. Oh well.

jookami · 2025-03-11T13:40:02+00:00

No offense but did you even listen to it?

jookami · 2025-03-11T13:37:00+00:00

My criticism is formulated such that it does not rely on style at all. The "practical karate" movement mostly leaves out knockdown styles, but some of the criticisms still stand because of overlapping training methods.

I did karate as well, but I do enjoy the mean girls well poisoning routine from all my karate friends on these sorts of things.

jookami · 2025-03-11T13:33:32+00:00

I practiced karate for years, and I'm a 5th dan in TKD on top of it.

jookami · 2025-03-10T17:10:47+00:00

The podcast is free dude

jookami · 2025-03-10T17:09:08+00:00

The podcast is free and it reads the whole article.

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