DJ's First and 2nd and 3rd Martial Arts tournaments (Updated)

[Master]

Do some research and make sure its not a McDojo.

McDojo=A place that will take your money in exchange for belts while your child learns nothing.

www.mcdojo.com

[Despair]

Oh no, This one is definately not McDojo. Teacher is a genuine nice guy and very skilled, and he makes kids work hard to get all the moves right.

I think I know one of those mcdojo places, and one of DJ's friends used to go to there.

[bahn]

McDojo...reminds me of take-out martial arts.

[StriderKyo]

Congrats to DJ! I was really worried when that one big kid blew dust in his eyes, and he had to fight blind.

Just tell him to start practicing now - those orange-belt tournaments where you have to wrap your fists in rope, then dip them in glue and broken glass are tough. But, the old ways must be maintained!

Oh yeah, if you're any kind of a father, you'll climb to the top of the nearest palm tree and start dropping coconuts on his stomach to toughen him up. He'll thank you for it one day, especially if he gets into a tussle with the Green Bay triads.

Originally posted by Master
Do some research and make sure its not a McDojo.

McDojo=A place that will take your money in exchange for belts while your child learns nothing.

If he placed in the top 3 in both categories after only 6 weeks, I think it's safe to say he's learning something.

[Kidnemo]

Jean Claude Van Damme overload!

("Aren't you a little old to be playing videogames?")

[Despair]

Great stuff Strider I'm off to look for one of those coconut trees !!!

[FuryFox]

Heh, good news to hear, Despair. Can't start them too young, generally, in martial arts.

I've been to quite a few TKD tournaments myself, and I tend to find that sparring matches are just flail-fests until you get to the upper-belts (brown and up). Kids, especially, since they look like little pillow people in all their armor, and just go at without much "strategy". It's all good though, I suppose. TKD tournaments can be marathon's though, and around here, they're generally not organized very well. Like, you have to wait around ALL day before you get to do your stuff, and you're usually stiff and tired by then.

That is, of course, if you have to wait for all the kid stuff to finish...I suppose if you're a kid yourself (or have one) it's not so bad.

StriderKyo: It's good to see someone else appreciates the classics, even if they're generally terrible

[Klonoa]

I went to a McDojo for about 7 years, got several 'gold' medals in state tourneys and a bronze in a national.

Its a bullshit sport.

I wish I didn't quit Judo :/

[Dolemite]

Of course, you could always bathe DJ in the special oils, have him take the special pills, and learn the rigorous ways of Tai Chi Kung Fu. Eventually, even though his hair will turn white as snow and his voice will become high in pitch, he will have great strength and will be invunerable to knives and swords, not to mention he will have the ability to do the DIVING HEADBUTT OF DEATH to his prone victims. Of course, he will still have one weak point, but it can be moved at will to any of the body's 108 weak points. Overall, it sounds like a good martial art to learn- you should look into the local Tai Chi Kung Fu dojo near you.

As far as McDojo's go, I studied at one once- Tae Kwon Do with a Police Athletic Association while in High School. Kids got belts for nothing, would run around and play...the class sucked. I knew something was wrong when I was a green belt and I would beat up the balck belts in the class on a regular basis. There was this one black belt named Joey, who was actually retarded...he was retarded, couldn't fight worth a damn, but he had a black belt. Sad.

[Despair]

Well, DJ regularly sparrs with another kid, who is brown belt, and has a hard time defending when that kid attacks. But thats good, and actually helps him train his defenses. Now he needs to work more on offense, and counter attacking.

Yesterday he was shown second half of the longer form he was studying, so now he can work on complete form, for the next tournament(if he would want to go ofcourse ).