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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
We moved our son out of a karate dojo because the sensei was using corporeal punishment on the 8, 9 year old kids who weren't paying attention or messed up. Other parents pulled their kids too.
The dojo he's at now manages to be popular, effective, and disciplined without striking kids when they mess up.
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Striking any student, regardless of age, is ridiculous. Even in self defence and sparring, which requires contact, an instructor should not be striking a student with any force.
I bop the kids on the head with a foam blocker or target randomly during drills to test their defense and even then I am leary of about making contact with them with anything because you just don't know what is going on in their homes and the damage you can do to their psyche by being physical with them in any way.
Martial Arts should be taught at the highest level with respect for each others bodies. Negative and positive feedback can be used, with often pushups something equal used for final punishment, but often making them sit out on the fun is the best punishment around.
And positive reinforcement goes further than any negative. Any good instructor or coach knows this, unless their head is so far up their ass they don't want to see the truth.
Anyone that tells you different, has something wrong in their brains or in their training.