Myth #1: Oom Yung Doe believes in traditional Eastern ways
This entry was posted on 9/25/2006 5:16 PM and is filed under Instructor.
Traditional martial arts has, as it's foundation, a relationship of trust and loyalty between student and teacher. Oom Yung Doe uses this idea to create a power differential between the higher belts and lower belts. Unlike traditional ways, where the teacher prioritizes the benefit of the student's learning, Oom Yung Doe instructors will make teaching decisions according to the bottomline: More money for Kim. In order to gain trust from students, they are taught to "demonstrate care feeling" and always treat the topic of money as a neccessary evil, something that they would shun, if only they didn't have to live with the base ways of the material world. Yet, somehow, money becomes the deciding factor for every step in the student's training: Instructors are taught to ignore and withold instruction from students who do not enroll for special lessons or pay ahead for further courses, even though they have paid for the courses that they are currently on. As a National Instructor explained to us: When a person walks into the school, your goal is to sign them onto a training program. When a student is on the two/three month training program, your goal is to sign them onto a black belt training course. When they are on the 1st degree training course, your goal is to get them to pay off the contract in full, even if this teaching contract extends for one or two years. Once they have done that, your goal is to get them to go to sae gae seminars, weekend seminars, the weeklong seminar, MIP training programs, and then advance sign up for the 2nd degree training program. If these students are wealthy enough that you are successful in getting them to pay for most of these things in a short amount of time, then tell them about "opportunities" to invest in a school! If a student is not constantly paying, they will not value their training. It is your job, as an instructor, to push them to their limits, so that they can earn. Who are you to stand in the way of your student's opportunity to earn?
Hours were spent in the office, discussing all the students. What course they are on, which one is taking their "next step", which one isn't. This is how we were to "demonstrate care feeling".
