This one is five. He's amazingly self-contained for a five year old, and I've no doubt he knows the forms and whathaveyou, but yeah, he's still five. Still mischief if he thinks he can get away with it, still more interested in exhibition than teaching. ~shrugs~ Which is fine--that's what childhood's for, and not everybody's built to teach. But still. The belt's bigger than he is, yet.
I like the "smell" of Dae's teachers. The master feels like cool water on a hot day. The teenaged blackbelt who directs most of the young-newb-and-little-ones' class knows without doubt where his towel is and is awesome with kids. If there are assholes here, I have yet to meet them. Lots of pictures of students on the walls; no trophy case.
So TKD's probably not the most bluntly effective art for a fight. I don't mean to teach him to fight yet; I mean to help him learn he doesn't have to all the time. You know?
As for a website... ~wry smile~ They have a website (http://ita6.itaonline.com/cms/default.aspx) like a human has a tail (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccyx)--kindof vestigial, hidden, and useless on its own, but good for connecting with the rest of the body and occasionally easing passages.
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Date: 2010-09-08 01:31 pm (UTC)I like the "smell" of Dae's teachers. The master feels like cool water on a hot day. The teenaged blackbelt who directs most of the young-newb-and-little-ones' class knows without doubt where his towel is and is awesome with kids. If there are assholes here, I have yet to meet them. Lots of pictures of students on the walls; no trophy case.
So TKD's probably not the most bluntly effective art for a fight. I don't mean to teach him to fight yet; I mean to help him learn he doesn't have to all the time. You know?
As for a website... ~wry smile~ They have a website (http://ita6.itaonline.com/cms/default.aspx) like a human has a tail (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccyx)--kindof vestigial, hidden, and useless on its own, but good for connecting with the rest of the body and occasionally easing passages.