What would you do if your teacher disowned you?

Ask myself why and then not do what I did again, life goes on.

Hi there

See what happens when money and politics gets its claws into something which it really has no place?

I actually disowned my own teacher after 8 years of committed training because of a disagreement where quite a few instructors also left at the same time.

Its not the end of the world. There are other organisations that you can join and you will also find better instructors too when your hands are not tied.

The king pins of most western organisations are quite frankly **** holes. Ego has taken over and distroyed everything in them that their art is suppose to get rid of in the first place.

Get shut, move on and find an instructor that trains for the art and nothing else. Avoid children funded classes if you can.

I ended up training in Japan which is something i would have never been able to do if i had stayed where i was.

So no regrets.

I also know someone who sued his old instructor for financial damages and won in court!!

Best wishes and good luck :)

idai

Teacher disowns you? It sounds like you are part of a cult rather than martial arts group and please do not tell me how it is different because it is an Asian art. I train under an Okinawan style under a 10th Dan who grew up in Okinawa and unless you did something so horrible or dishonest you would not be "Disowned" it is not your father, my Sensei is (and the previous one who passed recently was) great friends .

As for your other question, I have been unemployed and teaching Martial arts without a large amount of money behind you is harder than most people think. Chances are you will struggle with one or two for a year if you attempt to do it in a park as most people are familiar with Commercial schools and that is what most are looking for. I had 5 students when I did this and all of them trained in Traditional Okinawan Karate before and were looking for that in particular.

If you feel that you are too low of a rank then you should not consider opening you own school until you feel that you are ready to teach. If you need more training, Look to your parent styles. For instance if you were in Shotokan, you might look for someone in Shorin Ryu to take you or if you were in Tang So do, you would look to Shotokan or Shorin as they have similar kata.

If this is happening to you first try to figure out what happened, did you ask questions that made your "Teacher" uncomfortable, if so why? Did you steal his girlfriend? Once you have figured that either yiou are a jerk or your instructor is, then look around for somewhere to transfer. I do know a few people who have been kicked out of their dojos/Dojangs because they had become better than their instructors and were met with envy. If this is the case with you, then you are better off.

I'm not certain I know what you mean by disown.

But if the schooled closed due to finances. If you don't have the finances to continue to train because you are unemployed. You continue to train what you know and can. You look for employment and when able find another good instructor. Who knows you might find one that in a place that is not obvious that does not charge or allows you to train as long as you do some work around the dojo.

Sometime it is time to move on.

Disowned? You mean, taking a step to irreconcilably force you out onto the street, never to come back again? In this case, find another school.

If you mean that you are forced to go your separate ways because your instructor closed the doors due to financial hardship (or maybe you were forced to quit for same reason), then make it a point to maintain contact, and try to get back together again at a later time in the future?

I have left several school under the hope that one day I would return. It never happened: personalities change, ideologies change. But we nevertheless left under amicable circumstances. And I still get Christmas cards from one of them - even after 10 years! (Although, another one unfriended me in Facebook. I think that prolly qualifies as "disown"...)

I had something similar happen to me.

I found a better instructor, much more knowledgeable and more professional.

The instructor that throw me out was very good one of the best in the area. But he had issues as well.

But life goes on. I had many contacts in the martial art at the time and had several instructors offer to take me in.

Life goes on. When one door closes another will open

Sorry to hear the news. And I do mean that. This could turn into a good thing for you in the long run. Although it closes one door now you are more open to looking around to see what other training opportunities are available to you. I hope you will soon see this as something that will allow you to grow and see things differently. And yes, you are not yet qualified to open your own Dojo. If I can be of help, I will advise you as best as I can.

Hope things improve for you soon. In the mean time, don't let this stop you from training and keeping your skills up.

Best of Luck in your training !

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Well, one way or another, life, God, the Universe or whatever has told you it's time to part company. Which sucks, but it happens. If you are important to someone, they'll find a way to stay in your life. It sounds like this particular person valued your money more than you. It happens. I can't really blame someone for caring about their bottom line if it's how they make a living. But in the end, it sounds like it's time for you to move on. Where you move on to is up to you.

Find another teacher.

Move on, there are other great teachers out there, searching for another one would become a new challenge.

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Did he own you to begin with? If he was your instructor, you can find a new school..