Isolation and marginalization

March 10th, 2007 at 14:22 · Filed Under Critiques, Karate 

I read the blog of my student and was shocked that she had been isolated and marginalized by her peers and fellow instructors during her training at MMU. She is the president of MMU Karate Club and she can do nothing. When they found out that she would cross over to the authentic Shorin-ryu Seibukan, they stopped treating her as friends and peers during training classes.

She came to me many times seeking advice and I told her that she had all the freedom to decide who and where she wanted to train. By restricting their students from learning other styles will only show their ignorance and how timid they are in seeking knowledge in karate-do. I encourage her to train hard under the authentic Shorin-ryu Seibukan and after she has obtained her Shodan, it is about time for her to venture into the open sea of karate-do.

I don’t understand why most people in Malaysia have such attitude. It is very frustrating to see the instructors and their students having such attitude. These so-called instructors should never be allowed to teach karate-do as they do not teach the essence of “do” as in karate-do and bushi-do. Worst, they mislead their students and cultivate negative behaviors and attitudes. It is even more frustrating to see the society ignorantly accepting such behavior and endorse it unanimously.

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