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How to effectively transmit the martial arts.
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How can beginner adults overcome initial nausea when learning rolling falls?
Beginner judo classes emphasize learning low-exertion, solo falling technique (ukemi), which involves rocking motions in multiple directions (back, left, and right) and generally progresses to rolling ...
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As an instructor, how to deal with complaining parents?
I've been teaching karate for about 10 years now, and business has been going well. All of my advanced classes have 40-50+ kids on the mat, and I normally run the class myself. The problem I run into ...
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Is taking away a belt appropriate discipline?
Is it ever appropriate for an instructor to take away a student's belt as discipline?
Two 12 year old students were outside the class engaged in horseplay. One had been told previously that if the ...
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How a woman can teach martial art for men?
It's an honest question. I'm a black belt woman and I have only women in my class. I'd love to understand what happens with them or why men feel uncomfortable with the idea of taking martial arts ...
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Am I Being Used By My Dojo?
I have trained in my martial art for 6 years, followed by training to be an instructor for 4 years, and now finally am being allowed to substitute classes for other instructors. For each class we ...
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Does BJJ have a standardised syllabus?
Judo has a standardised syllabus of techniques maintained and occasionally revised by the Kodokan, divided into throwing and grappling (pins, joint-locks, strangles) techniques.
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How do I keep everyone's attention?
I'm a student teacher in Karate. I try to teach younger students, but they don't take me seriously as an instructor. I've tried countless of times to get them to listen to me, but they don't. I've ...
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Burnout or boredom in martial arts class
I've been training in Karate for a few years and have managed to make my way up to 1st Kyu. I could probably do my Shodan grading in about a years time.
The thing is I'm starting to get very bored ...
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Established "curriculum" for MMA?
I'm basically asking for an established MMA "curriculum". By that, I mean a way of training students for mixed martial arts that has been applied successfully by a significant number of schools. The ...
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How to respectfully disagree with Coach or Sensai?
I currently go to MMA gym with Muay Thai, Boxing, and Jujutsu. The boxing coach has slightly different advice: wants me to utilize a slightly square/wider stance below (eg Mike Tyson and others used). ...
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What are the advantages/disadvantages of learning a solo martial arts practice online at different levels?
The only martial art I have ever practised is taijiquan, when I lived in Newcastle. The standard of the classes was exceptional and now that I live in a completely different area of the country, I am ...
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Is practising techniques on both the left and right sides beneficial or detrimental to martial development?
Is there any evidence to suggest that practising techniques on the left and right side of the body produces more adept martial artists?
By "adept", I mean the learned ability to proficiently and ...
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How to deal with a judgmental instructor
Instructor behavior observed:
Comparing students with each other
Blaming students
Insulting students
Impulsive decisions
Lack of discipline in teaching martial arts
Going mostly spontaneous and with ...
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Child belt demotion for forgetting kata
My 9 year old grandson has a brown belt for around 7 months now. Usually he goes to regular class where all the color belts are put into their own groups. He hasn’t practiced some of the earlier katas ...
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How to teach intent?
My son (9 years old) and I do Japanese jujitsu, we have a great time, though our class does split into juniors and seniors.
For the last few weeks I have not been in class, but watched my son, and ...
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What is the good path to become a Judo teacher?
I am currently 15, live in a small town in Switzerland and have a green belt. There is a small, local Judo community that mostly trains young children from white to orange belt. There are currently ...
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What does it take to be a part-time kickboxing or MMA coach?
As someone who plans on studying at university, it might be quite difficult to find part-time jobs that are similar to my chosen area of study. Other than my subject of study; theoretical physics, I ...
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Soft Taekwondo introduction for other people
I was wondering what kind of exercise would be good to introduce a few Taekwondo techniques to other people, for example, colleagues during a company annual meeting, or similar conferences.
As a ...
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How do you help students "empty their cup" to learn a new technique?
While instructing a throwing technique in a small adult judo class, I encountered the situation where the most inexperienced (~6 months training) student was by far the most successful in absorbing ...
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Did Jigoro Kano invent the concept of Kuzushi in judo?
It is oft claimed that one of the distinguishing points between Kano's Judo and the schools of Jujutsu that came before was that he introduced the concept of kuzushi ("balance breaking") ...
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How do you ease someone over 40 back into training after many years absence?
I am nearly 50 and have been training more-or-less continuously for most of my adult life. I am careful to baby myself after injury, particularly joint injury, because I'm painfully aware how much ...
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Are students with disabilities tested differently?
I don't use testing when I teach; I observe and promote when students are ready (hopefully avoiding various observer effects). That said, I judge individuals based on their individual capabilities and ...
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Preferring BJJ concepts over Technique?
Kit Dale wrote an article about BJJ concepts. He states that he prefers to learn general principles/concepts over specific techniques:
Instead of cluttering up the hard drive of your ‘jiu-jitsu ...
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How effective are different pricing structures for martial arts studios? [closed]
There are several ways for students to pay for martial arts lessons: per month, per lesson, and contracts. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each of these for both the student and school? ...
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Martial art without exam and secrets
Is there any martial arts, where one can learn and evolve without proving herself/himself on various exams?
Also, it would be nice, if you could learn all the techniques.
What I mean, is that ...
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To prevent injuries, how do you discourage people from using excessive force?
This is basically a question about how to encourage randori (free play) versus shiai (competition) during throwing practice. Randori is supposed to be friendly; the objective is further development of ...
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Developing voice of command
Recently our intructor had to leave early from practice, and I was left in charge and the most graduate (and only) adult, with a workout plan for the remaining practice time.
The group was not that ...
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Do I need a new attitude, or a new dojo?
My problem is that my sensei talks and talks and talks, forever. He spends a good 5-10 minutes explaining something, we then practice what he explained for a about 2 minutes, then he starts talking ...
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Are Aikido joint locks harmful to children?
Note that this question is a mirror of this one on skeptics.se. Due to the lack of answers at the time of writing, I thought here might be a good place to seek more. Feel free to answer in either.
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How to "man up" to begin a martial art?
I am planning to begin to taekwondo but I have seen this video. Yes, being the person that stands in the video is great but I guess that one cannot be that person without first being the guy that ...
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Can video games make you a better martial artist?
On its face this seems like a silly and easily dismissible notion, but neuroscience has established that visualizing the processes of learned skills can improve\reinforce neural pathways in much the ...
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An Ontology of Combat II [duplicate]
I've been thinking about creating an ontology of grappling/martial arts techniques recently. I know there are things like flowcharts for BJJ.
Google directed me to this question: An Ontology of ...
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Dojo not quite right or am I overreacting
So my son (9 yrs old) and I have been doing JJ for about a year and a half- first 6 months at Dojo B -prices seemed quite high but 2 of the instructors split off to start a new Dojo A (slightly ...
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Is it possible to learn Wing Chun remotely? [duplicate]
I've seen a lot of Wing Chun courses like this: https://www.udemy.com/wing-chun-sil-lim-tao-module-1-know-yourself/ that promise you results by watching their videos and doing the exercises they ...
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How to notice if your instructor knows what he's talking about
I'm going to a Muay Thai gym soon. I'm a total beginner so I'll have to follow and trust blindly everything my instructor says. Since nobody is perfect and somebody may even be not prepared, I'm not ...
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Two Muay Thai teachers teach different techniques. Who's right(est)?
A few years ago I practiced Muay Thai at a gym. I was there on and off for about 2.5 years. Due to a move and busy schedule *cough*lack of motivation*cough* I haven't practiced in about 2 years.
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Why do teachers skip belts?
I currently work (part-time) as an instructor with a karate dojo. I have been with them in one way or another for over five years (including taking classes).
Recently, a highly decorated instructor ...
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What is the difference between a Teacher & an Instructor? [closed]
Although I could answer this question according to my class; In general terms with all forms of martial arts how can we define the difference between them ?
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Punishment in the Martial arts
I have recently started instructing an older age group than the previous one: the class is composed of more advanced students of age 8-13.
Over the past few weeks I've noticed that when the students ...
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Where can I find statistics on attack modalities?
I'm not sure that the terms I'm using are standard, or that I'm explaining them well. Comments and feedback are welcome. Let me try to explain my terms, explain my assumption and then ask a question.
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What should I be looking for in my first, trial class? [For Chinese arts specifically]
I know there are a lot of questions about this posted, and I've read through four of them here.
I understand that more important than any style is that the instructor is "good." I don't have a ...
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Child with attention difficulties in my karate class
I have been going to karate for many years and have had a bit of experience teaching our students, mostly in a 1-on-1 setting (I'm not the teacher, I just help out here and there when required).
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What's the most effective way to discipline students (particularly juniors)?
When teaching martial arts, particularly to juniors we sometimes run into problems with discipline. Most people assume that you can hand out physical exercise as a good disincentive to poor behaviour,...
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What is the most effective way to teach Jiu Jitsu
Some martial arts are composed for thousands of movements. I know two ways to teach Jiu Jitsu. Others possibly exist.
Each class teaches few movements (5-7 movements). This way the student learn/see ...
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How can I judge the competency of a teacher?
Say I went to a dojo (or gym or whatever the place where you train is called) and watched a class. How would I objectively judge whether or not the teacher was proficient at his martial art?
What do ...
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What is the Most Effective Discipline to Learn for Absolute Beginners
I am a Marine myself and between extensive combat experience, close quarter, and hand to hand, I am well versed in a variety of disciplines. For me this comes naturally.
Now that being said, I am ...
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How effective is practicing a martial art strictly outside of a dojo for beginners?
My girlfriend has expressed interest in learning one of the martial arts I practice with me, but when she has come to a class she has been very self-concious about being new and inexperienced (I've ...
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What is a good age to introduce children to a martial art?
I have seen different recommendations for different styles as to what age to introduce a martial art to a child, sometimes as young as 4 years old. Factors such as attention span and interest of the ...
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Best martial art for a big guy? [closed]
I received unconventional, unprofessional training in self defense from a friend who was once an Army Ranger, so I am proud to be able to answer at least simple questions about martial arts. But I was ...
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What does a free fighting teacher teach
... since any technique is free to be used ?
Logically each teacher could teach any martial art he wants ! but there couldn't be a federation, instructors and diplomas this way.
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