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The block that convinced me to stop teaching it.Please read this objectively as you can. Some martial artists are easily insulted, which is not the purpose of this article. The goal is to stimulate thought and discussion. As martial arts professionals, most of us...
DISCLAIMER I am not against teaching kata as an art form. That is great. It's like being a museum curator. However, I am strongly against kata being presented as a tool for self-defense. That is fraud. That is what I am addressing here. I spent a decade of my life...
Do you think in the post COVID world, people are going to have the patience to spend 3 - 4 years to get competent at your martial arts style? Pre-COVID, we were already in an "everything I want is just 1-click away" world. This is a typically outdated and overly...
Escape the Jail Cell of Style I recently posted this “Fighting Form” from our Empower Kickboxing program on Facebook. I designed the forms in the late 1990s to replace the traditional TKD forms I practiced and taught since 1974. While the video didn’t quite go...
NOTE: There is a link to the curriculum at the bottom of the page. 1. What is easier to learn? A hook kick or a sidekick? I say the hook kick. Which do you teach first? I’ve always taught sidekick first. Why? Because it’s always been taught that way. In truth, when...
I had lunch recently with a fourth dan in Uechi Ryu. We talked about how the Eastern mind-set is so different from the Western, and the confusion that creates for many instructors. Culturally, the East is more about conformity, or as I call it, cloning, than the West,...
There are two consequences to having too many “shoulds” in your curriculum. 1. Each requirement will have to be covered in class to prepare students for their exams. 2. With so many requirements, students will have less time to work on each, so quality will be...
When I opened my school, I presented the exact curriculum that I was raised on. Among the many problems that created for me was that I had a lot more kids in my school than my instructors did. Martial arts forms, hyungs, or kata were designed by highly disciplined...
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