In your first year what have you found hard to do? Have you found a way to make this task easier or have you learned ways to do it better
In your first year what have you found hard to do? Have you found a way to make this task easier or have you learned ways to do it better
Peering back into my dim and distant past lol I remember my first year mainly as thinking why on earth I'd got myself into this. There seemed to be so many things I couldn't do, couldn't understand and I was very keen but clumsy at sparring. After the first grading though things started falling into place and I started my real love affair with martial arts. The thing I learnt I think was not to give up.
What was Queen Victoria like?"The thing I learnt I think was not to give up" Yes so easy to do.
You are going to get a slap across the back of the legs my boy! If I'd been around in Queen Vic's time I would have been doing Bartitsu or Judo! The female pioneers in martial arts deserve a lot more credit than they get though. To be honest they are inspiring, if they didn't give up when it was far more difficult than I had it, I couldn't very well. It was the doing different things with legs and arms plus defending yourself plus moving that got me at first, I think it was just sheer hours put in that got me over that problem. It does give you more insight though when teaching if things are difficult for you when you started, you work out ways to do things. Someone to whom everything comes easily will find I think harder to teach a student who doesn't quite 'get it' easily.
While the early female martial arts pioneers in the West are certainly worthy of discussion, maybe even a thread of their own, somehow, I'm having trouble seeing how they relate to the original topic. Perhaps we can return to the topic of what challenges students face in their first year of training...
While the early female martial arts pioneers in the West are certainly worthy of discussion, maybe even a thread of their own, somehow, I'm having trouble seeing how they relate to the original topic. Perhaps we can return to the topic of what challenges students face in their first year of training...
I believe I said why they were relevant...that they were a source of inspiration to me when I found training hard and wanted to give up, that they didn't helped me carry on and many years later I am grateful for that inspiration. I'm saddened that my inspiration is considered nothing more than 'being off topic'. Perhaps a beginner having difficulties could also find inspiration to carry on as I did regardless of how little is thought of that inspiration.![]()
Having a weekly look at the problem you encounter and how they are eventually overcome would be nice
my first year of training in my 2nd art was difficult. Being only used to doing snap kicks I had to learn to do a more pushing type of kick using my thigh muscles more than just flexing and extending from my knee.
started in MDKTKD switch to the Lagarejos system of Sikaran after getting my black belt in MDKTKD is 18 months. I moved 150 miles away at that time for a new job.
In the TKD system my main problem the first year was putting up with 3 girls in class ages 6, 8, and 10 years old. What can I say kids will be kids especially when it is their uncles class
maybe from the same system originally remember I was studying in the early 70's. The grandmaster I studied under at the time was based in Texas and his student that taught me had learned in the military before moving to my area.