Thinking of opening a McDojo

[Ghost]

I need some help with setting up a TKD McDojo, thinking of offering fries with every belt.

Any ideas?

[Thai Bri]

You could offer fries with every belt.

[Thai Bri]

When someone gets their black belt the grand master could say "Would you like apple pie with that?" or "Do you wanna go large for an extra buck?"

[Szczepankiewicz]

You could have this guy hand out the belts for you...

[BadgerFu57]

He must be a grand master....

He used the secret make them laugh until they pass out trick! Of course, being the grand master McDojo owner he is, he didn't hurt me when I feel down. He merely gave me a Happy Meal.

[boar98]

mc dojo sounds cool.

I need some help with setting up a TKD McDojo, thinking of offering fries with every belt.

Any ideas?

sounds like a neat concept.i always hear about these mc dojo's which i assume are low budget training headquarters for students who cant afford the astronomical fees that regular standardized schools charge.
i've never actually come across one but i think that possibly the gold's gym martial arts section was something of a mc dojo concept.recollecting that one day trail visit to gold's gym brings back an anylyzed conclusion that a mc dojo must be something similiar to what i glanced at that day,which was not long before i resumed martial arts training after a 7 year layoff,in 10/98 upon regaining the full skills necessary to be legitamitely competitive with the forms performed in taekwondo..
i'd like to get more info on this mc dojo phenomenon which also kind of reminds me of my initial introduction to martial arts training back in my later highschool days.we trained in a barn which we called the dojo and put a yin and yang symbol on the front entrance to look like we meant business.we also awarded ourselves with dragon patches worn on our denim jackets when we felt worthy of recognition.
so bring on some more details on the mc dojo thing then.i wanna know!!!

[osopardo]

In Defense of the McDojo

Bratty kid with too much energy always getting in trouble. He comes to the McDojo and burns off all that energy in the drills and workouts. He also learns respect, self-control and the beauty that is found in self-discipline.

Shy kid with no self-confidence and no self-esteem, unable to make the cut on any school team. He comes to the McDojo and there, in the back line, learns his katas and terminology and school code, learns how perseverence always pays off, learns to accept defeat philosophically and triumph gracefully. Learns that he is worthy and valuable as a unique individual. Learns all these things at his own pace.

Weak little kid learns how to protect himself from schoolyard bullies. Learns to take a punch without freezing. Learns how to neutralize any situation without panicking.

They all grow and become more proficient in their martial and non-martial life. They grow dissatisfied with their art, seek other arts, other techniques, start cross-training. They can do this effortlessly because they have established a base. They may not be the best martial artists in the world, may not even ever become good fighters, but they are better off than if they had never entered the McDojo.

You might say that they would never get those things from a McDojo, but the alternative would be a a more competitive school where they would never be able to hack it or may be too intimidated to ever sign up.

What is the worst thing about a McDojo? A skinny nine year boy wearing a black belt? Why? Because you would compare him to a 19 year old mugger with a balisong? How 'bout we compare apples to apples and allow that there may be some value and validity to the existence of McDojos.

[osopardo]

The training (even at a McDojo) usually takes that "tough guy" attitude out of him by the time he reaches mid-level in the belt ranks. It would also teach him some pretty basic concepts regarding danger awareness so he wouldn't be likely to go around thinking he could take on just anybody.

The whole McDojo rap is based on the fact that they're mass-producing martial artists with basic skills in a short time (3 yrs. to black belt).
Mass production can lead to a lowering of the standards but it's better than no training at all for a lot of people, and I don't subscribe to the notion that you need years and years of training to produce a "functional fighter", otherwise the military would have serious personnel problems.

[begins]

Also granted these are little kids but at my highschool just about everybody who does either TKD or Karate, from one of the 5 McDojos, in a short distance thinks that they are real badasses.


that will change in time... in sweet sweet time

peace

[JasonE]

Why set up a McDojo teaching crapola when you can open a school and teach something worthwhile? Sure, you find people willing to pay for patches, but WHY aspire to it? The standards you set become the standards by which you are judged. Why set them so low?

[Tom Yum]

Here is a typical senario that takes place accross america every day:

"Yo dog, i be one o' da baddest badass in dis here 'hood, cause i be takin' Kung Fu" Weak Suburban Karate student talking like he is a "gangsta" to fat kid weighing in at 194 lbs "I am going to rip your head off" Lard Ass weighing in a 194 lbs. The end result being that the suburban kid gets the shit kicked out of him.

194 is fat??

Like Sir Mix Alot says: "Maybe if you're 5'3"...lol.

Actually most of the gangsta kids don't do any MA at all, because they think its weak.

[medic06]

194 is fat??

Like Sir Mix Alot says: "Maybe if you're 5'3"...lol.

Actually most of the gangsta kids don't do any MA at all, because they think its weak.

I thought it was 36 - 24 - 36???