Class Rules / Lesson Guide
The Things you Need to Know
Physical Environment
- Remove jewelry
- Keep finger and toenails short and clean
- Bare feet – keep your feet clean and in good condition
- Outside of the Dojan, take your belt off
- Only wear your Dobok to and from training
- Read and learn the tenets
It is important that a taekwondo student to try to:
- Be unselfish
- Be kind to others
- Be respectful
- Not show off
- Be proud of yourself
- Work with others as part of a team
- Be part of the community
Fellow Students
- Help them
- Be willing to learn
- Respect their rank
- Respect elders
- Respect all genders equally
- Bow to each other at the beginning and end of an exercise
- Line up according to rank
- If you are late or without your belt – train at the back, at the beginning and end of class.
Etiquette
- When in class, only talk when necessary
- Be polite at all times
- Learn and use the correct titles for different people within the club
- Only wear your Dobok when training (or travelling to and from training). Always take off your belt in public so as not to provoke confrontation
- Show respect for the Dojan:
- Put equipment away
- Bow when you enter and leave the Dojan
- Bow when a higher belt enters the Dojan
- Put your shoes neatly next to the door
- Food and drink are not allowed on the floor
- Water bottles should be clearly named on the table
- Always use polite language
- Show respect for the Instructor:
- Face away when sorting out your Dobok
- Bow before and after you speak to them
- Be on time
- Listen carefully to instruction
- It you are late, warm up quietly and wait to be invited to join in
- Offer to help
- Let them know if you are going to be absent
- Show respect to yourself:
- Seek harmony at home / work / school and in martial arts
- Keep your dobok clean and in good condition
- Learn in each class
- Listen to your body
- Warm up and cool down
Attitude
- If you don’t understand, let us know (we can’t read minds)
- Follow our rules and traditions
- Make others welcome
- Trust and respect others
- Commit to repetition and discipline. Practice
- Be resolved and determined
- There is no, “I can’t”, you are just working on it, or haven’t mastered it yet