The tough thing about teaching martial arts.

[IronFist]

Types of posters found on an internet martial arts forum:

1. TMAers who believe in their art and don't believe in cross training.

2. MMAers who like to come onto a forum and tell everyone not doing MMA that they are wrong and suck.

3. Former TMAers who got schooled by an MMAer and have now "seen the light" of their wicked ways.

4. Martial Artists who simply train their style and whatever other style, technique, philosophy, ect, that they feel will improve their martial arts.

5. TMAers blinded by style loyalty and hatred of anything that challenges what their instructor taught them.

6. MMAers with an open mind who see the benefit of TMA and it's training methods.

7. Trolls

8. Posters who constantly bash and ridicule others with the "bullshido" mentality of how everything other than what they were told on an internet forum sucks and that even though they suck themselves (often by their own self-admission) they have every right to bash others who they really don't know anything about.

If I left anyone out sorry, my fu**ck you's for the day were in limited quantity.

Lol I think that about covers it.

[TenTigers]

watch this....

[IronFist]

^ I think you forgot to include a link to the vid.

[Lucas]

It's kind of like how being good at Guitar Hero doesn't mean you can play guitar.

what about rocksmith!?!?


i think many times we place far too much responsibility on teachers.

if a student does not ask the right questions, it is not the teachers responsibility if that student fails later on.

[IronFist]

what about rocksmith!?!?


i think many times we place far too much responsibility on teachers.

if a student does not ask the right questions, it is not the teachers responsibility if that student fails later on.

Sounds like lazy teacher mentality to me.

"Why'd your student fail?"

"Cuz he didn't ask the right questions. Obviously it's not my responsibility to teach him unless he does."

[Fa Xing]

Sounds like lazy teacher mentality to me.

"Why'd your student fail?"

"Cuz he didn't ask the right questions. Obviously it's not my responsibility to teach him unless he does."

I really think teacher-student relationship is a two-way street 50/50. The teacher should teach all he knows, but that is not always an easy thing to do all the time. Quite frankly, the student needs to be, for the lack of a better word, creative and thinking about their own training when they are training or not.

I have often asked my teachers questions that others may not have, or even sometimes ask questions others may have but are unsure/afraid to ask those questions for whatever reason. The path of the martial artist is very much an individual experience as it is an experience with one's fellow classmates.