The best advice my instructor gave me was...

[iron_ox]

Hello all,

How about this: What is the best piece of advice that your Hapkido instructor has ever given you? Practical, philosophical, metaphysical...whatever.

Let's get the discussion back to Hapkido -


Sicerely,

Kevin Sogor

 

[iron_ox]

Hello all,

OK, I have a few, so I'll get the ball rolling:

"Teach everything the way you have been taught, then teach TO each student so that they can put everything into practice themselves..."


Sincerely,

Kevin Sogor

 

[Zepp]

Not sure why you want to limit this thread to Hapkido instructors, but ok...

I only trained in Hapkido as young kid, so I don't remember too much of my instructor's advice from then. But there's one bit of advice in sparring that I do remember, and I'm glad for it: "Keep your guard up."

 

[glad2bhere]

I wouldn't call this "advice" as such but it was an exchange I had with my sword master through one of the Korean students as I was watching him practice his cutting. Noting my observing he mentioned that learning to perform a decent cut required "10,000" cuts of newspaper before moving on to the next material. Trying to be clever I responded back through the student that maybe he could certainly get by with 5,000 cuts as it was still a respectable number. "No", he said said, "I would know the difference". I pressed the point thinking that he had misunderstood my point and repeated that 5,000 cuts was still a respectable number and it was not like anyone was keeping count over his shoulder. "No", he said " I would know the difference." FWIW.

Best Wishes,

Bruce

 

[American HKD]

Greeting to All,

My teacher says the following and it for both teachers & students.

In broken english he says: GOOD TEACHER GOOD STUDENT!
BAD TEACHER BAD STUDENT!

Very appropriated and very true.

 

[SmellyMonkey]

1. Don't think about what your attacker will do to you. Think about what you will do to your attacker.

2. Make your first strike/technique count. If your first strike/technique doesn't work, you open yourself up to being countered.

and my favorite (regarding martial arts training)

Everyone has something to teach you.

 

[Disco]

What is the best piece of advice that your Hapkido instructor has ever given you?

In his broken english........"You suck! - Go buy gun"... :whip:

 

[Feisty Mouse]

Aside from being a lovely and kind person, my Hapkido instructor, after a particularly long and rough-on-each-other practice session, would take the last 5-10 minutes and teach us how to massage and otherwise re-align each other, so we all left class feeling worn out and tired, but not in agonizing pain.

Good man.

 

[MichiganTKD]

One word that applies to practice or life:

Try.