Types of Students

Martial arts students come and go for a variety of reasons. Some students may be helped; others are beyond our ability to help. When students are beyond our ability to change or they are disruptive to other students, we have to tell the students or the parents of the students that we can no longer teach them and that they need to find another school.

Students have different needs. All people have inherent instincts that guide their lives. These instincts manifest themselves to different degrees in each individual; one or more instincts may be expressed more than the others are expressed. The prevailing instincts determine a person's personality type. If a person has one prevailing instinct, he or she belongs to a pure type. If a few instincts are equally strong, he or she is a combined type.