Some MA teachers only teach form without application?

[Tony Dismukes]

1. Only teach form. Don't teach application.
2. If a student makes mistake in that form, don't correct that student.
3. Modify the form to be easy of learning even if it may lose the original meaning.

If someone wants to teach martial arts forms for sport or health or art or cultural preservation or meditation, devoid of combat application, then I have no objection as long as they make that clear to students up front and don't pretend otherwise.

If someone wants to modify the forms to make them accessible to more students, then I have no objection as long as it doesn't compromise the objective of the exercise (sport or health or art or meditation or whatever they are aiming for).

#2 is where I draw the line. If you aren't providing feedback to your students, then you aren't being a teacher. Whether you are teaching for the sake of combative effectiveness or health or artistic performance, feedback and correction is part of the job. (Teaching through instructional videos is a special case. Whether it's for martial arts or washing machine repair, I'd say that instructional videos fall into the category of reference resources for people to teach themselves.)

 

[Kung Fu Wang]

Some TMA teachers may think that a student who is

- not interested in MA application is a good student.
- interested in MA application is a bad student.

I believe this is the problem that put TMA in today's situation.

 

[Kung Fu Wang]

If someone wants to teach martial arts forms for sport or health or art or cultural preservation or meditation, devoid of combat application, then I have no objection as long as they make that clear to students up front and don't pretend otherwise.

If someone wants to modify the forms to make them accessible to more students, then I have no objection as long as it doesn't compromise the objective of the exercise (sport or health or art or meditation or whatever they are aiming for).

#2 is where I draw the line. If you aren't providing feedback to your students, then you aren't being a teacher. Whether you are teaching for the sake of combative effectiveness or health or artistic performance, feedback and correction is part of the job. (Teaching through instructional videos is a special case. Whether it's for martial arts or washing machine repair, I'd say that instructional videos fall into the category of reference resources for people to teach themselves.)

I think this problem only happen in Chinese MA and doesn't happen in Japanese MA or Korean MA. So, I will address this problem toward CMA only.

I won't mention the CMA teacher's name here. One day a CMA teacher was late for his class. His young brother helped him to teach his class. When the CMA teacher arrived. He slapped on his brother's face and said, "How dare you teach this to someone outside of our family?" I'm really sick about this kind of attitude.

When MMA guys say that CMA guys cannot fight, should this kind of CMA teachers take the blame?