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Old 05-09-2008, 06:35 AM   #2 (permalink)
TRIANGLEFROMGAURD

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Rules of conduct are pretty much an absolute must. I kind of started my gym real lax on the rules and I'll tell you that was a big mistake. I'm friends with some of my students thats just how it goes but, before I started enforcing protocol every new person that joined would just instantly adopt that same feeling of familiarity that my seasoned guys had and, thats not really professional. Your students during class whether friend or not should call you sifu and nothing else. Like I had my first fighters and we would go out and drink or go see a movie and they would just call me Andy, then everybody started calling me Andy. It got to the point where parents would come in to check out the school and would be like ok so who's the instructor. So long story short everybody calls me coach or sir no matter if we're going out drinking after class.

Remember that rules are for the best of everyone involved in the school. I never thought that I really would need a hygiene rule and then I got ring worm. So yeah rule it up man. If you want I'll send you a copy of the rules that I use, some seem pretty much like common sense but, honestly you need it in writing.
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