I taught my first class tonight!

[Dionysianexile]

Just a little excited, my instructor let me teach the entire adult beginners class tonight. He wanted to work with the two black belts who were in attendance tonight, as he wants them to go up for promotion soon, so he asked me to teach the class. Ive been asked to warm up class, etc before, but never the WHOLE class. Luckily, there were only 5 students in attendance tonight, so i didnt have my hands full.

Thanks for listening,
Dionysianexile

 

[Drac]

Just a little excited, my instructor let me teach the entire adult beginners class tonight. He wanted to work with the two black belts who were in attendance tonight, as he wants them to go up for promotion soon, so he asked me to teach the class. Ive been asked to warm up class, etc before, but never the WHOLE class. Luckily, there were only 5 students in attendance tonight, so i didnt have my hands full.

Thanks for listening,
Dionysianexile

Congrats!!!! Scary ain't it...

 

[Carol]

Fantastic! What material did you work on?

 

[Ping898]

Just a little excited, my instructor let me teach the entire adult beginners class tonight. He wanted to work with the two black belts who were in attendance tonight, as he wants them to go up for promotion soon, so he asked me to teach the class. Ive been asked to warm up class, etc before, but never the WHOLE class. Luckily, there were only 5 students in attendance tonight, so i didnt have my hands full.

Thanks for listening,
Dionysianexile

That's awesome! I hope you had fun too while you were doing it!

 

[stickarts]

Congrats! very cool! A big next step in your learning and development!

 

[Xue Sheng]

Congrats!!!! Scary ain't it...

What he said.

 

[Brian R. VanCise]

Congratulations!

 

[Drac]

The FIRST time is ALWAYS the worst..It gets easier after that...

 

[Tames D]

Actually, I think that is the best way to introduce you to teaching. Only 5 students makes it manageable but at the same time will keep you busy.

 

[Drac]

Actually, I think that is the best way to introduce you to teaching. Only 5 students makes it manageable but at the same time will keep you busy.

Yep...

 

[Xue Sheng]

Actually, I think that is the best way to introduce you to teaching. Only 5 students makes it manageable but at the same time will keep you busy.

Agreed

I got my first experience teaching by complete surprise.

Walk in, Sifu was not there and I get a note handed to me from him that says, you teach today, and I wish it was only 5 it was around 25.

 

[jdinca]

Awesome! Five students is a good way to break into it. I remember my first class, I think I sweated more than the students did.

 

[Drac]

I remember my first class, I think I sweated more than the students did.

Same here when I taught at the police academy..37 students and 3 teachers....

 

[bushidomartialarts]

congratulations! that's fantastic.

 

[IWishToLearn]

Congratulations.

 

[Dionysianexile]

Fantastic! What material did you work on?

I started them off with some basic punching and kicking from the training horse stance. Moved on to foot manouvers, step drag, drag step, front crossover. Then added some handwork to the foot manouvers. Moved on then to short form one. Had them do that a couple of times, then had them do it as fast as possible, as strong as possible, and as flowy/loose as possible, and breifly asked them about the differences they felt. After that we did sword and hammer, attacking mace, mace of aggression and checking the storm.

It wasnt as bad as i thought it would be, which I attribute to having to warmup the class, and move off with one or two students to teach them here and there. Thanks again for all the support!

 

[karate-dragon]

Fantastic! Welcome to the first step in really learning yourself. Residents in medicine at a major Boston Hospital use to learn by : watch one (proceedure), learn one, do one. In this case, teach one and really learn how to have to describe it, think about it , break it down, etc. It's the best way to learn - to teach.

 

[bill007]

Just a little excited, my instructor let me teach the entire adult beginners class tonight. He wanted to work with the two black belts who were in attendance tonight, as he wants them to go up for promotion soon, so he asked me to teach the class. Ive been asked to warm up class, etc before, but never the WHOLE class. Luckily, there were only 5 students in attendance tonight, so i didnt have my hands full.

Thanks for listening,
Dionysianexile

Nice for you, I started helping my teacher in class and one thing I noticed is the mirror effect when you teach kata's I have to always think about the left is in fact the right and vice versa, how do you manage this when teaching?

Dominic

 

[kidswarrior]

Yes, a belated CONGRATULATIONS! :highfive:

It's the best way to learn - to teach.

So true. As I'm sure you'll agree right about now.

 

[Hand Sword]

Ugh! Now look what you've done!