Buckeye Tang Soo Do

At BTSD, all students are treated equally and given the chance to succeed. There are plenty of male students who lack upper body strength and are timid when it comes to sparring. Everyone has some sort of mental or physical barrier they need to overcome, and gender is not one of them.

Of the 16 black belts to graduate from BTSD, 7 are women. We do not force the women to only spar with other women and children, or refrain from using them as demonstration partners.

Men and women are given the same opportunities for advancement, and when teaching sparring or fighting, our instructors are more interested in a person's anxiety and reaction to stress rather than their gender. Our female students have a reputation for being "tough" but in reality, they have just been treated fairly and given every opportunity to succeed.