Hello all --
There's a wide variety of adult heights at my dojo; the highest student being at least 6'7", and the shortest at 4'10". I myself am a 5'4" orange belt. My question is this:
Some (but not all) of my instructors tend to group us for technique work according to height. This is OK, but I invariably end up being placed with the shorter people in the class. Should I ask for us to be mixed up more often, seeing as it's not very likely that I'll be attacked by a small-framed person like myself? Fortunately I have my husband to practice with at home, but it'd be nice to not have to inevitably go against like-sized people at the dojo.
I guess I can understand why it would be hard for me to perform an attack for the taller partner on certain techniques -- like, say, Clutching Feathers -- but other than that, I'm not sure why we have to line up height-wise.
Any thoughts?
Kodora
There's a wide variety of adult heights at my dojo; the highest student being at least 6'7", and the shortest at 4'10". I myself am a 5'4" orange belt. My question is this:
Some (but not all) of my instructors tend to group us for technique work according to height. This is OK, but I invariably end up being placed with the shorter people in the class. Should I ask for us to be mixed up more often, seeing as it's not very likely that I'll be attacked by a small-framed person like myself? Fortunately I have my husband to practice with at home, but it'd be nice to not have to inevitably go against like-sized people at the dojo.
I guess I can understand why it would be hard for me to perform an attack for the taller partner on certain techniques -- like, say, Clutching Feathers -- but other than that, I'm not sure why we have to line up height-wise.
Any thoughts?
Kodora