What is the role of a martial arts teacher?
A martial arts coach?
To get you, as a student, to that next level in half the
time?
Thoughts?
A teacher should take the experience they have, through
classes, instruction, and training, take that and layer it over the mistakes
that they have made in the martial arts, and distill that so the next
generation of students don’t make those mistakes.
Or if they do, they get identified and eliminated as quickly
as possible.
What is one of the best ways to eliminate mistakes in the
martial arts?
The basics.
Every martial arts, school, style, and discipline has a set
of basic movements, of fundamental movements that are the building block of the
martial arts.
In the Japanese martial arts experience this would be the
kihon- the basics.
What are the basics of your martial art?
Identify them and practice them every day as best you can.
These fundamentals are found I every martial arts movement,
every future lesson uses them as a road map for the training. Every correction can
be seen through them, and any time that you get lost in the training, being
able to return to the basics as a roadmap will keep you going.
What are the basics/fundamentals in your martial art?
See you on the mat!
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