Everyone I trained with (and some instructors I helped train) improved rather dramatically when they started teaching, even though they were suddenly spending less time actually practicing (because part of that time went to teaching now). We pay attention to more things, and I think most of us start to think differently about the principles as we start to teach.
You should have insisted that you were in fact being polite by not following through and sh*tting yourself.My first training day was a bit embarrassing as i farted doing a kick. The Instructor, "Master" called me a pig.
I never went back to that dojo but it reminded me not to eat baked beans the night before training
Somehow, that sounds like you're talking about practicing it, like stopping a punch 1" from target. 🤣
43rd anniversary of starting my Budo journey. My deepest thanks to Keith Harrison, Barry Wicks and Tatsuo Suzuki; you enriched my life in ways you’ll never know.🙏🏽Sunday May 18th 1981. 10am at Priestnall Recreation Centre in Stockport/Manchester. I was 12 years old. It was a municipal Karate course which turned out to be Wado Ryu and I’d waited about 3 months for the course to start so I’d borrowed a book on Karate from the library and had been doing press ups on my knuckles on a stone hearth, so I felt prepared!
On the 18th May, every year, I celebrate that first morning. I feel thankful, I wonder what became of my teacher and my regular training partner, Barry Wicks (I’ve tried to find them with little success..they could well have passed on) and the late Tatsuo Suzuki, hachidan hanshi our national teacher. I sometimes buy a cake to celebrate too, but mostly I just feel thankful and with love and warmth, remember the people, whose guidance touched my life so deeply…..
It must be the higher subtle level substite for kiai along with japanese Kime.
Dude! Massaging the neck of a bull…veggie/animal respecter here!
Has anybody died as a result of this? 😉 I bet young people struggle with that. They constantly have to swig from a bottle of water thinking they’ll dehydrate in a few minutes if they don’t. Bottled water companies marketed that idea very effectively.
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It’s very…military isn’t it?
Oh yes, that is impressive. I remember my teacher’s snappy punches too.
That is not very Kyokushinkai! Now get down and gimme 50!
Wow! That is an impressive experience!!
We can replace the bull for "an attacking opponent that is twice your weight".
The worst I've heard is that people throw up, but every now and then people do step aside as they feel like about to faint. Worst I've heard is people leaving the dojo without notifying instructor, and then faints outside the dojo (and worst case hits their head in something). This is the real reason why you can not just leave the dojo without telling the instructor. Sometimes we also have someone getting axiety attacks.
A tiny bit, but it's also a bit fun. After all, doing pushups is part of training anyway, so why not take the opportunity if someone yawns? If noone yawns, we have to do them anyway later.
Hehe... that is true. It's not the official version of course. But those who say you start 100% and then increase, are those that bad at math.
I wish it’d been continuous as I had a few breaks for education and work…I’d be a 9th Dan Super Hanshi otherwise!😉
At the risk of sounding falsely modest, never! I sometimes thought I’d attained a level of competence and then I’d see someone shift their body in a certain way or pause momentarily before kicking and think, ‘Wow, I’ve not achieved that much‘ and feel slightly dejected. At that point I’d look and those with just a few years under their belt and laugh at them mercilessly…perhaps kick ‘em up the **** and I’d feel better about myself 😐😉
I’m sure things must be clicking into place here and there. I remember the first time I could make my shirt sleeve snap with a punch, or consistently snuff out a candle flame with a straight punch…little achievements. My biggest step didn‘t occur in the dojo but on my last day of high school. It was traditional to pelt each other with eggs and throw flour over each other on this day (🤷🏽♂️). I saw an egg flying threw the air at me and without thought I pivoted on the balls of my feet to evade the eggs trajectory (tai sabaki - a characteristic of Wado Ryu Karate). I was amazed and pleased that my training had taken effect!
I like depth of knowledge too, but the anti-intellectual types in the MA will foolishly criticise this mindset. Ignore those ‘jocks’!
I sometimes think this is done deliberately so you can ‘discover for yourself’. Well that’s all well and good if you’re a young teen and have all the time in the world!
There is value in this, I suppose, but why ask each student to reinvent the wheel or rediscover calculus? A woodworker can hammer in nails with his fists, but please instructor, give him a hammer…it’s quicker and a lot less painful!
I've been ignoring similar types all my life, even outside MA there are "jocks" as the phenomenon we discuss here is generic, so their critique doesn't work on me. It tends to be the same people that suggest you shouldn't overthink things. Well, I think things to pieces, and it works flawlessly!
I had experience with instructors who were prone to correcting the finish. I learned to correct the process, like you're talking about here. Rather than telling a student "your foot should be turned further at the end", I'd be able to say "your weight was too far forward before the pivot, so your body needed your foot pointed this way to keep balance." Students learned faster - and understood better - when they were correcting the process (using principles), instead of just getting technical critique.
I think it’s a less common way of teaching as it requires real understanding on the part of the teacher, something many martial arts teachers do not possess.
