Recently one of my subscribers, Michael, asked: “My sensei had me teach some kids the first taikyoku kata last night and he told me that whenever one of them did a movement incorrectly to make them do pushups. So we get going and I have them drop down to do pushups a few times before […]
So on Monday night I took a handful of my junior kids outside for some environmental awareness training. Gone were the cushy mats… Gone were the mirrors and regular training equipment… Hello concrete, stones, stairs and walls… This was a very important training session for the juniors who hadn’t done anything like this before. Cries […]
Brrrriiiiinnnnngg! Brrrriiiiinnnnngg! Somebody’s phone rings… Honk! Honk! A car drives by… “Excuse me? Could I get some information?”, someone else asks. Even the slightest distraction like another student whispering or a belt coming untied… These and a hundred more things distract students during training. One of my pet peeves (and I dare say one of […]
