How do you address your instructor?

[Vapour]

The same question was asked in E-Budo.

I always had a feeling that Japanese martial arts are more formal than Chinese one. However, it turned out that most people call their instructor by their first name and address their instructor sensei only in dojo.

Btw, I call my taijiquan instructor by his first name.

[yenhoi]

Indeed. My teacher's name is Dave. Thats how I address him.

[NorthernMantis]

Well I always say sifu Shelly and that's about it. It takes nothing away from and I never get any looks in public. I don't see why some people have a hard time addressing their cma sifu as sifu in public. IMO Americans don't like someone with higher authority.

For example if sifu asks me to do something I'll do it, but I won't do it blindly.

[RedSkaNite]

Dao Si-hing. His son is Si-hing.

[shaolin kungfu]

Jeff, for that is his name.

[SifuAbel]

First I put his name, then his street addess,City, state, the zip code. That about does it.

As far what you call him. Call him whatever he wants you to call him.

[sn0w8lade]

I call my sifu, sifu. nothing else

[MasterKiller]

I call him Sifu, inside class and outside class.

[Becca]

I call him Sifu. It is a title of honor, and he earned it. You call your doctor "Doctor", yes?

[Xebsball]

i call my instructor by his name
i call my doctor by... "you"
for example: "and what you say that will that do to my neural system?"

im a vet student, and i call my teachers (who are doctors) by their first names, or "teacher"

[sn0w8lade]

Originally posted by Becca
I call him Sifu. It is a title of honor, and he earned it. You call your doctor "Doctor", yes?

Couldn't agree more!

I call him sifu out of respect for him ( ok an maybe a lil bit of fear )

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

hi jerry, what's up.

[Mr Punch]

Sifu Abel is on the money.

And he has shown impeccable taste by stealing my joke from another thread!

[Becca]

Originally posted by sn0w8lade


Couldn't agree more!

I call him sifu out of respect for him ( ok an maybe a lil bit of fear )

Of him, or the push ups, or what ever you'll get?

Have learned the hard way not to refere to certain extreme stretches as "Chinese Kamasutra"(Push-ups 'till he was tired)

Don't leave the windows to my truck down if it might rain. (100 push-ups for leaving the kwoon durring class)

Don't be late for class (50 push-ups for every 5 minutes)

No matter how silly Rob looks doing the duck walk exersize, don't lauph, even if everyone else thinks its funny, too. (My arms still have not recovered from that one)

And he does look funny doing that exersize. Not as silly as knife-edge walk, though. Everyone does that one silly, no dignified way to do that one.

[Shaolin Dude]

I just call him yao.