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Sugar and spice and all things nice? Not quite!

August 25, 2010
Jason Stanley
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Sugar and spice and all things nice, that’s what little girls are made of… right? Well, the experience I had last night would suggest otherwise… Since I began teaching almost 18 years ago I’ve run across my fair share of students who were: unfocused badly behaved disrespectful obnoxious loud bossy strong willed argumentative talkative And […]

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Raising the concentration level

August 12, 2010
Jason Stanley
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First off, my apologies for the elapsed time since my last post… Things have been a little crazy. In all honesty I’ve barely had time to write leading up to last month’s WEKAF Stickfighting World Championships – a lot of hours being eaten up right there… And today I’m off to Australia for 10 days […]

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Two karate stepping exercises…

June 29, 2010
Jason Stanley
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If there is one thing that drives us karate instructors insane, it’s trying to get some consistency across our classes, particularly with basics (kihon). Here are 2 simple exercises you can do in your classes to help your students with their stepping, stance posture and transitioning. Have your students pair up and tie a belt […]