Millennial Martial Artist
Yellow Belt
Okay, I have a thread for those of you whom teach martial arts as well. As I started teaching martial arts, I realized that I was very nervous about being in front of others. All of a sudden, what I said became the habits of my students. However, as I was teaching, I started realizing how much more I was learning. I started having to put my applications into words, and be able to explain them in a sense that my students could understand. However, by doing that, I was gaining a better understanding of the application of moves and techniques I was trying to teach. I started seeing new ways to apply moves, and different scenarios that actually seemed effective. My instructor gave me his thesis to read through and edit, which you can see here:Knowledge, One of the Necessary Tools of a Leader: A Mastership Thesis by Master Travis Dillow. Overall, I think in my position, once I started teaching, I actually started learning more than in the 3 years that I was not acting as an instructor. For those of you teachers out there, or those who started trying to show your friends your style, how did your understanding of your martial arts or material deepen when you started teaching someone else?