Teaching Martial Arts
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sandova ...@aol.com (Sandovaljp)
does anyone know a web site/ program that can help a instructor become better at Teaching Martial Arts
Kirk Lawson NO_lklawson_S...@heapy.com_SPAMSUX
**** Post for FREE via your newsreader at post.usenet.com **** Keith Pascal at http://www.kerwinbenson.com has a e-book on the subject.
http://www.fightingarts.com/ has some forums on the subject.
"Ron Sell's iTipps - Martial Arts Instructor's Teaching Tips" at http://www.4kicks.com/default.asp?itips might be good for you.
Those are the quick "off the top" links.
Good luck.
Peace favor your sword (IH)
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"In these modern times, many men are wounded for not having weapons or knowledge of their use."
-Achille Marozzo, 1536
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"...it's the nature of the media and the participants. A herd of martial artists gets together and a fight breaks out; quelle surprise."
-Chas Speaking of rec.martial-arts
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"Jeff" jkerw...@usaor.net
Well, not a web site but there is a terrific source of information... try posting to rec.martial-arts and I bet you'll get lots of help ;-).
Ok seriously. No I don't... but I've been thinking for a while that it'd be good if someone else (ok, I want to do it but know I never will :-/)... were to create a web site where teachers could post their tips, cool drills and deep insights ;-).
I'm a fairly new teacher and although I know how to do what I'm trying to teach, and... well, think I do a good job of teaching it... I'm not so naive as to think I couldn't do it better, make it more interesting, or even once in a while just be plain way off base (not too often I hope :-/).
And personally, I like the idea of sharing some of my own teaching ideas with others.
[ok, there's the bait ;-)] Jeff
Ben Holmes bnhol...@rain.org
I'd suspect that it's also going to be *highly* art dependent. If you're interested, I can give you all sorts of tips for teaching a Judo cl***. But, my crystal ball says that 99% of what I'd say wouldn't be applicable.
"Jeff" jkerw...@usaor.net
Quite true that there would be a lot that wouldn't be relevant. But I also think there would be a great deal that would be. I agree (hope ;-/ ;-) there wouldn't be a lot you'd show me about kicking. But I bet other topics, yes... things like balance, timing, rhythm, speed, focus (seeing wide and narrow at the same time), dealing with fear, footwork, how to grab someone (we TKD'ers do that too at times ;-), facing multiple opponents, exercise and stretching and flexibility, how to make your counter-attacks work, distance, and understanding the origins of attack. And not for me, but some would go further with chi / energy and spiritual issues. Then there are *teacher* issues. I don't have this, but where teachers could find help dealing with things like, "I have this student that is trying soooo hard, but just doesn't have it, what do you do when that happens to you?", or "my students are saying my cl***es are boring, what can I do to make my cl***es more exciting".
So, on this web site, I'd love a section specific to TKD... but MA is about much more than the specifics of ones specific style.
There ya go Ben. What do ya think?
Jeff.
Kirk Lawson NO_lklawson_S...@heapy.com_SPAMSUX
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I'd say that there might be a market for it. :-) Peace favor your sword (IH)
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"In these modern times, many men are wounded for not having weapons or knowledge of their use."
-Achille Marozzo, 1536
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"...it's the nature of the media and the participants. A herd of martial artists gets together and a fight breaks out; quelle surprise."
-Chas Speaking of rec.martial-arts
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bob_s ...@operamail.com (bob_stra)
If you were in Australia, I could recommend quite a few training programs - AIS, Cert IV of training, various sport accreditation's etc etc. (the aussies - we likes our bureaucracy, we does) IIRC http://www.philelmore.com/ has a link on his Book review section to a gentleman offering an e-book on this very topic. (unfortunately, Phil's site seems to be undergoing update right now). Maybe you could check that out in a few days?
Also, Roy Harris has an external training program for his instructors AFAIK.
http://www.royharris.com/home.htm
Mrs. Jones mrs.jo...@rogers.com
Not being an instructor, I don't have a whole lot to contribute here, but I think the website idea is a great one, and I don't think you should let the question of universal relevance stop you from doing it.
There are more than enough similiarities in what a teacher of *any* art should know... things like the different categories of learning styles people fall into (kinesthetic, visual, audio) and how to teach to their strengths. And there are lots of issues that are going to show up in one form or another, no matter what art you do.
naga ...@u.washington.edu (Karen Nagai)
I could always use help in the teaching dept. and judo would be 100% applicable in my case. :) I can think of a few teaching tips/observations that would apply no matter what art - learn to watch closely and I mean really, really pay attention, accept the fact that everyone doesn't learn exactly the same way in the same amount of time, and know your art. karen
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Chas gryph...@attbi.com
The Indonesians have a curious concept. A 'guru' is not a teacher, he is a 'practice leader'. He leads practice because he's the best at it.
When a student approaches practice, he is being 'allowed' to join the practice group that's allowed to watch the best guy. There is no set curriculum, you're doing what the leader is doing. If he's studying something, you study it with him.
Learning the form is only about learning a system of movement that one can use to study martial art; it isn't the art itself. Senior practitioners teach the system of movement to younger practitioners-
the refinement of practice of the form is what one learns while practicing with the 'better' practitioner.
Since it is usually a small clan group that practices together to learn the common defense, everybody is helping everybody else to practice to the best of their ability.
An interesting aspect is that they don't practice against their own techniques- no one in the clan group would fight one another in the manner that they would fight an outsider. It almost requires that you learn a couple of arts just to be able to play a good attacker when it's your turn to be aggressor.
Since there's such a huge variance in the possible enemies one would face in Indonesia, the range of responses is pretty broad.
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da ...@emailaccount.com (Dan Bummer)
While any input is fine when it comes to generality, the decision will vary according to what arts are being taught, whether the approach is e traditional, eclectic, semi-traditional, a mixture of eclectic and traditional, whether it falls into a currently hot approach, whether it is different from the current mainstream, etc.
"Kevin and Stephanie" kevin_ste...@sympatico.ca
Wow- Chas, that is such an excellent description of how our cl***es run!
I'm stunned by how appropriate this is.
Badger, does this sound familiar to you too?
:o) Kevin
da ...@emailaccount.com (Dan Bummer)
In kali he is a guro. Similar
wall ...@yahoo.com (wallen)
geocities offer free websites, only problem is the low memory/bandwith allocation and restrictions on videos. to go around the this problem, we would need to open several acounts(one for each category and one master index)then just link these accounts together. each account will be handled by at least two persons so the p***key would not be lost.
the first problem would be to get enought manpower resource to start and maintain the site.
wallen
young_for ...@hotmail.REEEMOVEcom (Badger North)
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 21:35:36 -0500, "Kevin and Stephanie" Verrry familiar.
Badger Jones www.cyberus.ca/~badger And whose cruel idea was it to put an S in the word Lisp?
da ...@emailaccount.com (Dan Bummer)
Geocities is great for informative sites rather then teaching sites.
Space is limited for both storage and actual results, so they have to depend on links to broader areas in order to be more easily accessed.
wall ...@yahoo.com (wallen)
anyway, anybody willing to give it a try? we could start something small and if we get a good response then perhaps we could chip in and buy ourselves our own site.
wallen
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