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<blockquote data-quote="garritynet" data-source="post: 1946059" data-attributes="member: 712838">...advanced practitioners only.? I have a friend who wants to start martial arts. He is interested in a learning Karate only. Not BJJ. Not MMA. He is more interested in learning practical applications at a traditional school than learning sporting applications.I already told him the basics on how to spot a MC DOJO and gave him the whole &quot;Go to all the schools.......&quot; lecture however I don&#039;t know enough about how Karate is taught to give advice specific to his needs. For those of you in the know, is there any advice you can give for a potential student whose biggest fear is spending three or four years in a school only to realize that his teacher is unwilling or unable to teach real life combat skills?&nbsp; Some schools, he worries, only go so deep in to the art. He has always wanted to do this and only recently got a good enough job to afford it. He is a year younger than me, so 24, and very dedicated. I wouldn&#039;t waste my time if I thought he was the type of person to quit. This guy is smart enough that he can &quot;take things into consideration&quot; and not turn everything into a rule, if you know what I mean. Is there anything I can pass onto him or is it pretty much a crapshoot between the not obviously horrible schools?From our conversations he is pretty set on Karate. That is why I said no MMA or BJJ. Becuase thats half the answers on the MA forum.Thats really good what you said about most instructors having instructors. I will pass that on. I will also tell him not to pass on the community centers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="garritynet, post: 1946059, member: 712838"] ...advanced practitioners only.? I have a friend who wants to start martial arts. He is interested in a learning Karate only. Not BJJ. Not MMA. He is more interested in learning practical applications at a traditional school than learning sporting applications. I already told him the basics on how to spot a MC DOJO and gave him the whole "Go to all the schools......." lecture however I don't know enough about how Karate is taught to give advice specific to his needs. For those of you in the know, is there any advice you can give for a potential student whose biggest fear is spending three or four years in a school only to realize that his teacher is unwilling or unable to teach real life combat skills? Some schools, he worries, only go so deep in to the art. He has always wanted to do this and only recently got a good enough job to afford it. He is a year younger than me, so 24, and very dedicated. I wouldn't waste my time if I thought he was the type of person to quit. This guy is smart enough that he can "take things into consideration" and not turn everything into a rule, if you know what I mean. Is there anything I can pass onto him or is it pretty much a crapshoot between the not obviously horrible schools? From our conversations he is pretty set on Karate. That is why I said no MMA or BJJ. Becuase thats half the answers on the MA forum. Thats really good what you said about most instructors having instructors. I will pass that on. I will also tell him not to pass on the community centers. [/QUOTE]

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