5 Signs Your Gym is a McDojo!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2024
- Whether it's Jiu Jitsu, MMA, Taekwondo, Karate, Boxing, or Muay Thai that you are training, if you want to make it to the UFC, ONE FC, PFL, or Bellator you'll need to find quality training at a quality gym with quality coaches who put YOU and your SKILL DEVELOPMENT over lining their own pockets with dough! Here are the TOP 5 ways to know if the gym you just walked into... is a McDojo!
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HOW TO DO A COMMERCIAL AD FOR YOUR DOJO: 1. Make the video start out as if you are teaching what a real dojo is ( tongue in cheek version) . 2. Put down what everyone else is doing. 3. Plug your school at the end and ask them to join your school. --"How do you know its a Mcdojo" ? - do the above and demonstrate bad character, bad decorum and manipulative selling fostered with Im the honest guy routine.
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I've been to all sorts of martial arts school since I was 16 years old and I'm 41 now. I've been to some Mc Dojos and some hard core schools. I find that a lot of schools fall somewhere in between. I went to this Muay Thai Mc Dojo for about 3 years once. When I started the Muay Thai Mc Dojo school, I had already got my black belt in Kosho Ryu, had done capoeira for 2 years and Jeet Kun Do for 6 months, and been practicing kick boxing on my own heavy bag for years, so I wasn't a novice. I should have known better. To this day, I still can't believe that I got suckered in to a Mc Dojo, but it happened. How did they get me? When I called the school to ask if I could try a class, they told me that they don't allow that. If you want to join, you have to do a private lesson with the head instructor. So I met up with the head instrutor for my private lesson. At this time I was 25, and I had been working on kick boxing on my own heavy bag for several years. The teacher seemed pretty cool at first, and I really enjoyed my private lesson. We mainly just worked the basics of Muay thai.. Jab, cross , Hook, round house, front kick. The teacher was correcting my form just as a good teacher should. Nothing seemed off at first. He kept me working on the bag as hard as I could until I was totally spent. This took about 45 minutes. Once I was completly spent, exausted and out of breath, he brought me over to this desk in his office. He explained to me that the school does not have a monthly option and only does 1 year contracts and 3 year contracts. He slid the contract and a pen right in front of me while I was still trying to catch my breath. I don't know about you, but I can't think straight when I'm that exausted. I signed the 1 year contract like a dumb ass. Once I actually went to the main class, I noticed something was off. I noticed that I could kick harder, faster and had better form than their black belts. I know that I have had years of experiece at this point but I had never taken a muay thia class before. Their black belts should be better than me. After about 2 months of classes, the teacher made an anouncement to the class, and he said something like "The price of class tuition is going up next month, but if you sign a 3 year contract right now and join the black belt club, you'll be locked in at the current price" So I signed the 3 year contract and got stuck at the school for 3 whole years. We never practiceed with any focus mits or pads. It was all just heavy bag work. I have my own heavy bag, so I could have just done all that stuff from home. What was the point of joing this school? The teachers just let the students just hit the bags any which way they wanted and never corrected anyones form. Everyone looked sloppy. The only good part of the school was the sparring class, which was a separate class taught by this legit MMA figher guy. That sparring class was cool, but it was only 45 minutes long and once a week. Not often enough to get good. But you had to sign the 3 year contract in order to join the sparring class. Don't let any one convince you into signing long contracts that you can't get out of.
If it’s a three year contract and you pay monthly ….I would of walked away ….his breach of contract for not training you properly …thus is why you attend casual classes before you commit yourself…I went through a similar problem trying to find the right master and dojo….it took me a long time and this was before Mcdojos even existed…
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Never doubted my gym was a mcdojo because I’ve been to a karate one before and the difference is noticeable. But I just wanted to see in case I decided to further develop my martial arts and try out some other styles and say a karate dojo or Muay Thai for elbows or something.
I'm not a Mcdojo I only charge £25 gbp for in person classes but online videos are free tuition in My Freestyle Wing Chun system
Just tag Gracie Barra next time man
I've been training in Japanese Jiu Jitsu for about a month. Everything seems legit, but the class emphasis is on self defence. Competition is not discouraged, but it's also not directly encouraged. Is this an issue?
I personally joined for self defence. It's a large class, but along with our instructor, all white to purple belt classes have at least one black/brown belt for every 2 students. We do live rolling and submission exercises every week. Am I wasting my time?
Based off my research it seems very legit. I would like to know others opinions however. After I progress in this style, I plan on picking up muay thai and bjj for a more well rounded fighting style.
Any advice or tips are greatly appreciated!
Sounds like you’ve got a good thing going
@@tristargymwestcoast awesome thanks for your input!
You're wrong about cardio kickboxing. I took 5 hours per week for 4.5 years cardio kickboxing class before the traditional karate class when I was 16 to 20 years old, and I could run circles around the other brown and black belts who didnt' take the cardio kickboxing class. I even got where i could beat any two black belts allied against me because I was so much faster and more endurance than them. I wish I'd never quit my old sensei's dojo to be honest. It was the worst mistake of my life.
I might not look like much, but I still punch harder than most pro MMA fighters.
I wasn't at a McDojo. I know over 250 submissions and I'm an A+ striker at the same time.
My Sensei only kept about 10 to 15 adult students, because he wanted to make sure he was training them properly. He had about 25 or 30 kids students though for the kids class, which his wife taught that class and the Cardio class. The Traditional Karate class was 2 hours per night 5 nights per week, so I was in the dojo 15 hours per week.
Lol. Our Green Belts could beat every other dojo's brown and black belts. I can assure you, a real Isshinryu Light Green belt will make short work of any untrained fighter or even a pro boxer. I know because I've beaten pro boxers when I was only a light green belt. I was NOT initially able to beat my sensei's upper belt students. I even got beat by one of his female black belt students one time. However, but the time I was a second degree brown belt (5 years instruction) I was able to beat his second degree black belts. By the time i was a third degree brown belt, I could beat two of his second degree black belts allied against me. Why? Because I attended all 15 hours of adult instruction every week and trained like mad at home too. I wanted to be the best student in the dojo, and I almost certainly was..
Gracie school charged me for a month off of a free class shit was sad 😅
Oooo come to Tristar Gym
im lucky to be in the handful of proper dojos. Thats all i have to say as a beginner.
There are no full contact karate competitions. We used to spar full contact karate, but the competitions are only pussified points sparring with 50 unrealistic rules. If you points spar you are learning bad habits which will hurt you in self defense situations.
I would have fought professionally, but got bad advice from family when i was 20 years old. I SHOULD have fought professionally.
i also think you're being ridiculous in saying that belt testing shouldn't cost money. I never felt like I was "ripped off" by needing to pay for a belt test, since I KNEW our students in my sensei's dojo were noticeably better with each belt and sometimes even each stripe. He charged 100 dollars per month membership and 20 dollars for testing and equipment.
To avoid giving out paper black belts, because he saw that I as a second degree brown belt was beating hish second degree black belts, my old sensei added an "eleventh kyu" to his promotion rules and required everyone to learn even more kata, bunkai, and submissions to get a black belt than the styles minimum standards. He and his immediate sensei wanted their students to be "two belt ranks better than any other style" so they did that. Not one person ever got promoted to First degree black belt in the 4.5 years I trained under Mark Myers, but one of the existing black belts did get promoted to second degree black belt, because he met the "minimum standards" for second degree black belt. Nevertheless, but the time I was a "black belt candidate'" i could easily beat him in a sparring, but that's fine, because real fight science shows theres about a 2 or 3 belt variation in effectiveness based on your FITNESS and other factors. But again, properly trained isshinryu Green Belts will WRECK any street fighter or Judo or Taekwondo fighter. We punch and kick harder than them, and we grapple better than them.
Anyway, The instructor needs to pay for rent or mortgage on their gym and stuff. It costs money to operate a dojo, so they need to make money. That's just an unfortunate fact of life.
However, I will admit that it got annoying to pay for FAILED black belt tests since I never could memorize all of the last kata and bunkai.
U might as well call it a Mcgym!
Tbh I wouldn't mind paying my coach to show up and be at competitions if it was just me there.
I never understood the mentality of "weight loss" martial arts training.
If you train properly, you'll lose weight just the same! ahah
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I cant afford to go to tristar
Where there’s a will there’s a way
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Don’t know where you live. But where I’m from there are lots of legit gym that are holes in wall. With coaches that love the sport and will fully support you in your skill development and will be proud to be in your corner during competition. I was lucky to find a few of those small places that are a lot less expensive than tristar
too many katas, not enough fighting
I trained at a Mcdojo’s and got staph 🤢
That’s super wack.
You have to train in their gear... Jesus Christ