If your teacher was responsible here is what should have happened. You have been in Taek Won Do for only two months. You are young and your life can go so many different ways. There is no way of telling where you will be in 2 years no matter how committed you are right now. What happens when you go to college? What if your family situation changes and you move? There is no way of telling already what kind of stumbling blocks you will encounter in your training, get frustrated and decide this is not for you. So for now your teacher should only be teaching you. If you are good and he likes you, he will be spending a little extra time with you, showing you a few extra things. Then when you make black belt he will address the issue of maybe assisting in teaching. It should still take you several years of training as a black belt before you should teach on your own.
From the way you make it sound your teacher is looking to you as a source of income, his income.
First thing you should know is that very few people make more than pocket money out of teaching martial arts, most good teachers are barely able to keep their schools from being a money pit, to make money you either have to do something to make your name shine and make people WANT you as a teacher or scam the hell out of them with a Mcdojo setup and the second one sounds a bit insulting because it really is.
Sponsoring means your teacher is willing to pay your costs either out of goodwill or in return for being able to use your name. I don't know how the Taekwondo system works but if it works anything like Karate the most your teacher would be actually paying for in your martial training would be your grading fees if your school is attached to a major organisation, maybe insurance to that organisation and possibly tournament entry fees. If this whole thing is legit then you'll probably be getting some kind of lesson in business management.
I'd be skeptical for a few reasons.
- Doesn't matter if it's competing at top level or teaching martial arts very rarely make honest money because martial training is not considered essental by anyone.
- You don't know people after two months so offering to sponser them in an unprofitable endevour is madness.
- If your school is anything like any honest martial art it should drive potential students away because it hurts and less than one percent should be stupid and stubborn enough to grind their way to even the blackbelt levels let alone the level of a worthwhile teacher and once again, you don't know people that well in under two months.
Read everything he hands you carefully and don't even think about signing it until you know exactly what you're getting into.
We can't tell you how much it pays. You will need to ask your instructor. In our school it doesn't pay. We are not a for profit school. Therefore no one gets paid. Our only pay is sharing our knowledge and seeing students grow.
What it takes to become a black belt in your school is much different than in our school. We don;t have any fast tracks. You either know and can execute the requirement or you don't. Even after getting a balck belt you are not qualified to instruct. Anything you want to know about that process you should ask the person that spoke to you about it. But it sounds like to me they are going to move you rather fast. Now you are hooked. Now that you are hooked they will begin to increase the fees for testing. It probably won't be that much of an increase initially. After getting used to the fact that it will cost more they will reel you n and charge you more increasing fees. By then your mind will be conditioned to pay more with moving up in rank. You'll come to expect it. You won't even mind paying more. Then those fees get really high. But you will begin to see that you have gone too far to stop. So you'll pay more
The black belt you achieve in the first is a 1st degree black belt. It doesn't say you are an instructor and ready to make your own students. 1st you MUST have experience as an assistant instructor in your 1st degree black belt level. At least in the 2nd degree black belt, you can run your own class alone. Specially its good to teach for kids. Teaching to adults mean you must poses superb skills, if not, they will leave you. For kids, its much about fun and safety. (Adults need safety too).
In my class, instructor is 6th Dan. Yes. He isnt very younger. But in martial arts it takes a long time to achieve to that level.
Unfortunately you cant make much of a living teaching.
You really need to focus on your curriculum right now, that should be the most important thing in your life.
Ok so i started taekwondo two months ago and i really like it, a few days ago my teacher was away in his office with another teacher and i was practicing back stance when my teacher called me inside the office, my teacher NEVER asked anyone to enter his office while there was a class, so i went in and i was really worried that i did something wrong until he told me that i am a great student and really well disciplined and that i could fly by the belts and get to my black belt faster than most if i continued and that I'm really good and that i could really make it far in the taekwondo industry. He told me that when i do reach my black belt that he will sponsor me to be an instructor for free if i am committed to do it, also that he will give me more in depth classes for free if i wanted to do this. First of all when he told me this i was shocked i didn't know what to say, so i just nodded and told him i would think about it because it is a big commitment its not a hobby anymore its more of a career now and i don't know what to think. How do you become an instructor first of all? How log does it take? And if I'm going to do this as a profession how much does it pay? (i wouldn't really do it for the money but lets be realistic). And lastly what does sponsoring me even mean? I would really appreciate some help. i love taekwondo and i would be greatly honoured to teach it to the next generation but i need some info first before i make any decisions thanks :)
