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 […]
We all know how to play dodge ball, right? Well here’s a version we occasionally play at the end of class with my students. I got this from my sensei years ago and it’s called “Corners”. It works like this: Pre Game Requirements Split your class into teams (4 teams maximum). Each team starts in […]
