Dojo Etiquette:
1. Always show respect to your instructors and training partners. Respect in training means: do not seek to harm fellow students physically.
Respect also means that you must train seriously and hard enough for you and your partner to improve his or her skills, conditioning,
and fighting spirit. Not giving your best during training detracts from both you and your partner's experience.
2. Bow before stepping on the mat - remember a learning place is a 'holy place'.
3. Good hygiene (meaning shower and gi laundry regularly).
4. Keep finger and toe nails short and clean to prevent injury to yourself and others.
5. Bring a clean, dry gi to each class.
6. Keep shoes off the mat, so we can prevent the spread of infectious skin diseases.
7. Do not attend class if you are sick, or have a skin desease. You will be asked to leave class if you are found to have any of the
aforementioned aliments.
8. Do not walk outside with bare feet. If you have to go outside, wear sandals or shoes.
9. Always compliment your sparring partner, bow right before train starts and shake his or her hand after a sparring session.
10. Do not talk while the instructor is talking. It distracts those who are trying to learn and is disrespectful to the teacher, as well as
other students.
11. Do not leave the mat during class without the instructor's permission. Also, please do not take off your gi top until class has ended.
12. Turn cell phones off during class. Again, they distract those who are trying to learn.
13. If the instructor has not changed the task, then continue doing the task he or she has given (i.e., don't sit around talking because
you feel you have done a technique enough times). You can NEVER do a technique too many times.
Simple Rules are to be followed for a better time at the BEST Martial Arts Academy in San Pedro and Harbor Area!!!!
See you on the mat.... OSSS
