Go-nin Gumi (Go-neen Guu-me) 五人組: is the team or team-size group that has origins over 2,000 years in the Japanese history whereby they found the optimum number for "getting the most out of a group" effort is a five person group. It is now an institutionalized team-size to govern creativity in Japanese companies.
It has been shown in Japan and in other parts of the world that beyond five the returns diminish exponentially. The size of a dojo does matter but don't restrict that thought to just five members. Look at it as five practitioner ratio to "one Sensei." If you have fifty members all training at the exact same time then you must have "ten (10)" Sensei where each has strict and complete autonomy for those five practitioners from beginning to the level where they can achieve progress on their own with intermittent guidance from the Sensei.
Ever wonder why education suffers so? Class size ratio's are all askew where one teacher, Sensei, has to guide anywhere from fifteen to thirty or more students. Diminishing returns.
It is no wonder commercial dojo not properly run and controlled roll out black belts that are subject to question and doubt. They may not know it but that is there and is perceived by martial karate-ka.
In closing, even if you have the proper ratio are the Sensei able to "right teach?" Read this one: The Three Exercises [ ]
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