No I haven’t been to any tournaments not even an ATA tournament. Yes this is the type of sparing we do. I don’t pretend to be an expert in the martial arts or in other styles. It seems everyone in this forum thinks I ATA is bad. I do not. There are over 1000 ATA schools in this country and arpund the world. Somebody must be able to defend themselves. I am not naive enough to beleve that I will become a Karate master but I get my excercise and I have learned some self defense. I know what I am paying for.
Here you go dumbass, since you can’t have an intelligent conversation all your ATA posts will end up here in your very own thread.
OMG ROTFLMAOLOLOLOCAUST @ ATA!!!
ok. got that out of my system.
First of all I have watched my son spar and he is getting better everyday. If he is forced to get into a real fight he will be able to defend himself better than he could before he took Taekwondo. I see him every day and you don’t so please don’t say that he cannot fight because you have never see him.
As for the tournament you described that is the fall nationals and it is open to anyone who is a purple belt or above. Since anyone can come, you will have great students, good ones and bad ones. I wouldn’t say all of the students are the cream of the crop. A blackbelt attitude is something they try to teach. They want the kids to be good students, listen to their parents,be polite, study hard and have goals. My wife and I try to teach these things to our son as well. I don’t see any fault in the karate school supplementing that as well. As for the kids acting up you can’t blame the ATA. Kids have their own personality and they do act up.
As for thugs, my meaning was they are not teaching kids to be bullies like the Kobra Kai in the Karate Kid movie.
As for me I made the you guys are clueless comment because I feel that most of the posters have not been to an ATA school or they have been to a bad one and they are judging all of the schools by that one. of course there are those who have been in the ATA or have been to ATA schools and think they suck
I know I am fighting a losing battle in this forum. So after this I will no longer try to defend my organization. The other people in this forum have already made up their minds.
My question to everyone who is bashing the ATA is what is your style, what school do you belong to and why is your style so much better than the ATA. Another question would a 6 year old do well in a Brizilian Jujitsu or a mixed martial arts class? I don’t know the answer to that one. Maybe someone else will
it looks like you found some ATA tournaments on u tube. But yes this is the type of sparing we do. I don’t see anything wrong with it. Not everyone will spar like Chuck Norris or Superfoot Wallace. Karate is practiced by many different types of people. You will have a small percentage of great fighters adn a small percentage of bad fighter. Most of the rest will be somewhere in the middle (average)
Like I care. I will just return with another username and e mail. Or maybe I won’t
Don’t come back you’ll be happier that way.
Your right. Tell me how to unsubscribe from this webpage and how to delete my user name.
But seriously…
I used to be one of those people that went ‘well that’s not how we do it in our dojo. Our dojo trains for real hardcore!’ Then I realized maybe I was the exception, or that we really weren’t doing that at all…
Omega is just teasing ya khf, but I’d like to see how you guys train. If your school does buck the trend and doesn’t do the standard TKD point sparring silliness then we should recognize that.
I haven’t been to any of the other ATA schools so I don’t know how the others train. I spoke with one of the instructors at my school and they are all taught the same and they all follow the same guidelines. However each school modifies their own lesson plans. Some instructors pass students quicker than others. I think guess the point system for the tournaments is the same all over but I am not totally sure
Your right. Tell me how to unsubscribe from this webpage and how to delete my user name.
You could… You know… just stop posting. But hey- that wouldn’t be any fun, would it?
you are correct on both accounts.
I was wondering why Bill Duffs picture ia here? What did he do or not due to deserve this honor
sigh blame Vince, i do, and it seems to work well.
But i’m very glad Ashida isn’t there anymore, that was enough to make me want to turn lesbian…
you are correct on both accounts.
This is quite often the case.
When you are right you are right
please create “Goodbye” thread.
kthnxbai
I just want to know how to delete my account. There doesn’t seem to be a way to do it
you are forever remember in the rolls of Bullshido.
your account cannot be deleted.
if you wish to go, please create a “Goodbye” thread in YMAS and post your laundry list of complaints agains the site, the posters and the general attitude of Bullshido.
at least do something useful.
I guess I will have to stay then.
dude.
don’t slink away…skulking about like a thief in the night.
go out in a fiery blaze of glory.