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Our
system, Universal Shorei Goju Karate System, requires that all classes be
taught by master instructors. Whether or not a student has obtained
a black belt, they must meet requirements for a master instructor in order
to fully teach our classes unsupervised. We do allow under ranks to
lead classes, during exercise periods, as a foundation for training them
in becoming an instructor. This process teaches under ranks how to delegate
during training sessions, disciplinary actions and controlling groups.
Upon obtaining the rank of black belt in our system, black belts must go
through and complete what we call "The 5 chambers of training"
before they're allowed to fully teach a class in our system. At certain
points in chamber training they will meet the requirements for becoming
an assistant to a master instructor. No other school we know of does
this. The five chambers of black belt training takes approximately
3 to 5 years to reach the half way mark. So when you see someone teaching
our classes you'll see a black belt with a minimum of ten years of black
belt training under their belt or someone in the 5 Chambers of Training.
Also, we are primarily the only school that has our system fully documented,
standardized and certified as a Trade
School. Most school have only one
training manual or single sheet hand outs for their students which may not
be official data for their system, but a duplication of someone else's system.
Also, it depends on the reason you want to purchase a program.
Some clients simply purchase because the location is convenient and feel
that all karate schools are all the same. Some enroll because our price
or tuition comes with more advantages than others. Some purchase because
we have a Shihan Master Instructor that is well known accross the country
and feels more secure knowing that. Some simply purchase because a friend
recommended us. So, primarily the answer to your question may be "It
depends on whether or not we have what you're looking to spend your money
for". |
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The
park districts, primarily, don't have master instructors teaching their
classes. You will find very few. The park districts are also
subsidized by city funding to absorb most or all of their overhead expenses.
Our classes are taught by master instructors as we know for a fact we have
to produce a more quality and superior product for the money we get while
the park districts only concern themselves mostly with just having a program.
There is no primary goal or objective by the park districts to produce a
quality product. Their main concern is keeping individuals off the
streets. Actually if you did the math, you'll find us quite inexpensive
for the work we do and especially for the superior products we generate.
For instance, our regular plan for a child is $80.00 per month for 12 two
hour classes. If you divide the amount you pay to us($80/24) by the
24 hours we work, you would get an hourly pay of approximately $3.33 per
hour. Like you, we have to pay expenses out of the tuition fees we
receive. I don't think anyone today would work for the hourly fees
that we're paid per hour. If they would, we would like to talk to
them about positions we have available. Also, when you factor in our
discount plans, the hourly pay reduces tremendously. So, before you
label us expensive, please do the math and see if you would work for what
we're actually being paid by you. |
| 3 |
Universal
Shorei-Goju is a system and not a style. There are 5 styles within the Universal
Shorei-Goju System. We redesigned this system of Karate to be slightly different
from the system that was taught to Master Peacock from Master Jones, from
a style of fighting to an art of not fighting, we could no longer call it
Shorei Goju Karate. Therefore, we adopted the name Universal Shorei
Goju Karate. Universal added to the system states that we use any
means necessary to disable an assailant, as we have now designed an approach
to personal security that prevents an assailant from ever completing their
attack. The Shihan Master at 3 Circles School of Karate is only 5' 2"
tall, and the approach he uses for personal security have to be more sufficient
than that of an individual 5'8" or more. To have been world champion
and nation champion so many times, we're positive our approach to personal
security is much better than most. |
| 4 |
This
system is based on an approach or a designed beginning. In most arts
of karate, the question "What do I do first?", tends to sprout
hesitation in a defendant. Our system has answered that question with
a designed approach. When an assailant approaches, what are my objectives
and how do I accomplish them quickly and effectively without sacrificing
momentum or advantage? Most other martial artists and martial arts
schools base their advantage merely on the physical abilities of combat
between two or more individuals of equal height, weight and strength.
If an individual is indeed more physical than you, would he not surely overcome
you? We therefore took the advantages of being more physical practically
out of the factor of personal security in this system. |
| 5 |
This
system is based on being smarter than the attacker. Being more knowledgeable
about the body and how it mechanically propels itself is our advantage.
We also stress maintaining a prescribed physical conditioning that is superior
in nature. We therefore use laws of physics, trigonometry and geometry along
with a thorough knowledge of body mechanics to accomplish our goal of personal
security. The body is limited in how it moves to produce or generate
force or power, so our system concentrate on keeping an assailant in a limited
mobility state as to impair their ability to attack or do damage.
This reduces the amount of physical resistance you have to deal with in
order to subdue or disable an assailant. The key is knowing what to
do first, second and third. No other school teaches that! |
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Not
really. This is a difficult question to answer as learning depends
on the motivation of the student and their level of focus and concentration.
Although this system reduces the amount of physical resistance, there's
still is a lot of body and mental conditioning that must be obtained and
maintained for it to work effectively and sufficiently. If a person
is not willing to go through the conditioning process, then they will not
be able to apply this system well enough even though they may have learned
the system thoroughly. The whole system is based on three geometric
objects; a circle, a triangle and a square. There is a mathematic
factor that we use for the approach which is called the two fifth (2/5)
theory. So the system is simplex yet complex. You can make straight
A's in any school or institution, but if you fail to apply the knowledge
you've learned to solve the problem you have, then the quality education
means absolutely nothing. |
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Our
system, like all the other true martial arts systems, knocks an assailant
down and can disable them and or critically damage them. There's no
system of karate better than another. It solely depends on the
individual's motivation and dedication that's training in a particular
system or style. Also there must be a teacher who has the ability to
transfer effective knowledge and skills to that individual. Simply
because a person is a champion in a particular category in tournament
competition, doesn't make them automatically a good teacher, instructor or
coach. The Chicago Bulls were six time world champions, but that didn't
make them any better than any other team. They simply had
individuals on their team who were more motivated, dedicated, hungry and worked harder to
enhance their skills and game plans. Additionally, they had a
coach that knew how to use the talent he had on his team and how to
transfer his ideas and strategies to them. Every team knew and
understood the triangle defense of the Bulls and also the Bulls
offensive system. However, these guys were just set on making
that system work well and had the hunger for accomplishing their goals.
If someone tells you that one style of martial art is better than another
or that you need a mixture of a lot of different arts to be effective,
then you should know right away that that individual has no clue as to
what they're talking about nor do they know anything about martial arts. |
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A
good amount of patience, a small down payment, validating personal information
and a signed commitment or contract for training and someone to be trained. |
| 9 |
No!
You have 30 days to satisfy your full enrollment fee. In other
words, you can bring in a lesser amount, whatever your budget allows, and
then the remainder in the next 30 day period. You won't however,
receive your uniform pak or equipment pak before your enrollment fee is
satisfied, but you will be allowed to start your training classes
immediately. |
| 10 |
To
cover the cost of the uniform, training equipment pak, and your 1st month
tuition fee. |
| 11 |
We
have both types, contractual and non-contractual plus several incentive
plans. |
| 12 |
Our
contractual plans are for 1 full year only (12 months). You then can
renew for another term if you desire to complete your training. You
will not need to pay another enrollment fee if you decide to re-enroll for
an additional year. |
| 13 |
Yes!
However, there may be some restrictions and exceptions or additional
charges that may apply. Some plans may require additional fees based
on the extra accounting or additional processing that may have to be done. |
| 14 |
Our
main focus is on the discipline factor. A satisfactory level of
confidence must be obtained in order to defend yourself effectively,
sufficiently and completely. Your focus must be drawn to developing
superior human abilities along with respect for those training you and
helping you to train. Although they show martial artists trainees
alone in fields and on mountain tops, there is no greater training element
than a good training partner. You and your partners become a team
and each one takes the other to new levels of expertise. You
therefore learn respect for each other and others around you as you
realize that your advancement depends a lot on them and your relationship
with them. From that point, honor sets in along with other character
building values. None of this happens if discipline is not acquired
and nurtured. |
| 15 |
Our
center is more like a family center, however, all we have is karate here.
You see, karate is a way of life, not just a part of it. Everyday
you have some type of confrontation, whether it be in the business place
or personal. During those confrontations, you try to position yourself
to an area or place that will give you the most advantage. Whether
you're talking to your girl friend, wife, mom or dad, or just a friend during
confrontations you want an advantage. So in this center, We decided
families should have an advantage when they utilize and patronize the center.
We have a mini movie theatre, a restaurant, an exercising room, lounge areas,
training floors that can be converted to a dance hall, computer lab, snack
shop, and practically a one stop center for families. It boils down
to meeting the needs of your clients as you would meet the challenge of
an opponent. We also teach Cheerleading, Tumbling, Dance, Karobics, and
other family programs to better serve you. However, the mentality we train
in, no matter what the program is, is the mentality of KARATE! |
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Children
can enroll as young as 3 years old with an interview. If we can hold
their attention for at least 20 minutes, then we feel we can teach them.
We have classes for teenagers and adults also. However, the average age
we start at is 4 years old and up. |
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We
don't. We don't try to imitate other programs and activities in the
area. We simply listen to our clients as to what they need or want
in a program and determine whether or not we can provide them with their
requests. we don't want to design a program and then try to sell it
to someone, we want to design a program around what our clients say they
need or want and then provide them with those necessities within the realm
of my business policies. Our Shihan Master has a degree in Business
Management, Design Engineering, and Commercial Art. So, we don't feel
we need to mimic anyone other school out there. Although you can learn
from anyone, we prefer to to try some of our own ideas first. One
best idea is listening. However, our karate program is very much like
a dictatorship, we have our methods of operations and our training processes
and will not change them for anyone for any reason. Why? The
methods we use are very effective and works very, very well. However,
our clients and customers do evaluate our program as the best in the
city. To us that's a mouth full and we have to respect what they say
and continue to maintain that status. Some of our competitors are
our best advertisement. After prospects have viewed other programs
in other schools, they settle on our program because of the quality we demand
and provide solutions to and for their problems. |
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Don't
let our Shihan Master's size fool you. Karate has nothing to do with
height or any physical attribute. They didn't call him"Ben the
giant killer" for nothing. He never tried to overpower his opponents,
he simply out smarted them by primarily using 100% aggression in his attacks
or defenses along with a fool proof strategy of overcoming the size obstacle.
All of his attacks or defenses were based on angles, trigonometry and body
mechanics, which always worked well for hin. You'll find his name
in several books in the libraries because of his domination over larger
and taller opponents. So he can teach you a great deal!! You just
have to be prepared to learn. |
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Shihan
Master Peacock has written several training manuals that explains what you
will learn. We have three (3) training manuals at present which is
being broken down into six manuals. Our second level test which is
yellow belt takes about a week for a candidate to complete. From that
you should know there's a lot of material, both physically, mentally and
orally that has to be obtained and retained within a three (3) month period
to pass our exam. We are also designing the manuals into CD version
for visual training as well as documented training. |
| 20 |
No!
Our contracts are final and cannot be broken for any reason. That's
why it's called a contract. You can, however, sell your contract to
another person or allow another person to use the classes you have not
taken. |
| 21 |
That's
not really true. Everyday, you make your children go to school and
we know primarily they don't like that. However, you should be the
one making the decisions on your child's activities, not your child.
It's a critical mistake to let your child determine whether or not he or
she wants to attend a program in which you're actually investing in their
social management skills. You should not allow them to make any decision
on any social direction until they're mature enough and have experienced
life enough to accept the consequences of that decision. The child
hasn't lived long enough to be in a life making decision authority.
If you don't gain control over your child at the molding age, it will be
extremely difficult to gain control when they're older. We really
sympathize with parents bringing their children to us and look to us for
help to regain control over their children again and for them to not realize
how they really lost it. Most of them say "I've always supported
him and let him do whatever he says he likes to do and go where he likes
to go and I paid for it." "So why is he like this now?"
Well, he's like that because he's now made the decision he no longer wants
to listen to you any more and wants you to support and pay for that also. |
| 22 |
Most
likely there will be some type of injury defined with this type of
activity. Whether it be mental anguish or some sort of physical
injury. However, with the professionalism we use in training our
students, the level of injury is far less than that of skate boarding,
baseball, football or basketball. We have an excellent history of no
major injuries occurring during our training processes, although our
training process is extremely and highly intensive. There may be
some minor bruising or scratches. Our secret is our commitment to
discipline, body conditioning, flexibility and superior control of our
techniques. We have excellent instructors and trainers who can
anticipate situations that may result in injuries and therefore will stop
or pause the activity that would be giving high odds to the possibility of
injury. |
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The
best explanation for this question is for you to come in for a visit and
make your own evaluation. We wouldn't still be in business for over
23 years if the negative things you've heard were at all true or were a
part of our policy. From our experience, most people that have complained
about our organization are those who did not expect a black owned business
to be well organized. They didn't expect us to have a lawyer, collection
agencies, rules, regulation and policies of operation that placed responsibility
on both the customer and our organization. They expected to have options
over and above what they were paying for and when they found different,
they created negative rumors about our organization, which was the only
way they felt they had available to fight back. We cannot satisfy
every customer, that's why we don't have all of them. However, we
do have customers that has been with us for over 10 years. So, my
best advice to you and many others like you who may be struggling with this
paradox, is to see for yourself and not listen to the negative things you've
heard about us. We have customers now who were told one thing about
us and found none of it to be true. This is a business and we do just that,
business.
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| 24 |
Our
studio teaches a full and complete range of the martial arts to both
children and adults. However, children and adults have separate
training periods. Beginner children classes are scheduled 5:30 pm til 7:15
on Monday and Wednesday while the Advance Children classes are scheduled
on Tuesday and Thursdays at the same time. Beginner adult classes are
being scheduled, for next year, on Tuesday and Thursday from 7:30 til 9:00
pm along with the adult advance class. We've discovered that our training
process, the amount of space available, and the number of teachers we have
allows us to schedule those classes simultaneously without adverse affect
on superior quality. Normally, the adult beginners class would be
scheduled on Monday and Wednesdays from 7:30 til 9:00 pm. |
| 25 |
The
maximum times you may come in to train per week is 3. Over the 30 years
plus that I
have been teaching, I have evaluated the training we go through and with
the intensity in which we train would cause or promote serious damage
to the body, both physically and mentally if the body doesn't get ample
time to regenerate, relax and reconfigure itself for the next level
of conditioning. If you don't give the body the time it needs to
recoup, it may go into shock and possibly collapse. Coming more
times than 3 per week also promotes a class atmosphere of chaos. The
quality of training diminishes when it is attempted in a chaotic
atmosphere and I cannot and will not give room to sublevel training at my
dojo. |
| 26 |
Yes,
we test for color and level ranks. We test every three months, whether
you feel you're ready or not. Our tests help us understand if our
training process is effective or if you are comprehending the data given
to you. Our scheduled test starts the last week of January, 2005 and
then every three months thereafter. Fees for test are $10.00 if you
fail the test. It could cost up to $250.00 if you pass the test depending
on the rank you are a candidate for. If you fail a yellow or blue
belt test the cost is $10.00. If you fail a green belt test the cost
is $15.00. If you fail a purple belt test, the cost is $20.00.
If you fail a brown or black belt test, the cost is $25.00. If you
pass a yellow or blue belt test, the cost to you is $35.00. If you
pass a green belt test, the cost to you is $40.00. If you pass a purple
belt test, the cost to you is $45.00. If you pass a brown belt test,
the cost to you is $50.00. If you pass a black belt test, the cost
to you is $50.00 plus a $200.00 black belt registration fee. |
| 27 |
Our
Day Camp begins the first week in June and ends the 2nd week in August every
year. |
| 28 |
No,
there's no such thing as defending yourself using basic karate or self defense.
Basic means the starting point or foundation. You can learn to start
a car, but you won't be able to go very far in it if you don't learn how
to drive it and manipulate it. Knowing what a hammer is, is far, far
from knowing how to use it. We would primarily be putting your child
in more danger if we gave him only basic information and then thrust him
into a victimized situation without knowledge of how to use his tools well.
Also, you can't determine who your child's attackers are going to be based
on the amount you pay for their training. Their attacker may be a
person who may be very experienced in the art of karate or a very experience
street fighter. The amount of tuition you pay does not and will not
determine the ability of an assailant that may attack your child. |
