Manny
Senior Master
It's not funny when the teens don't pay attention and gooffy around when self defense techs are in course.
Last night I was in chanrge so I knew the teens need to practice basics (even they don't like them at all), my point was... How you want to become a better fighter (sport) or martial artist IF your basics are poor, so it was good for me to teach proper technike, the blocks must be hard enough not only to deflect but to hurt and this is when a defense becomes an offense.
Afther basics, we did hanbon kyorigi, basic hanbok kiorugy (one steps) and then the kids again fooling around with techs so ugly and so not eficient that I have to tell them to retunr to the basics we were doing before, stick with the basic, why you want to do flamboyant moves if here in dojang those are clumsy and not efective? Stick to the basics..... all changed when I grab a wooden tanto.
When I grabed the wooden tanto I told them, whell.... we are going to use the same dinamics BUT using a weapon, if you don't use proper tech and comon sense you will be stab.
Again we got back to the basics and did one steps using trusting and slashing, in the begining the kids were scare about kick the hell out of them to try to put out of combat their enemy so I have to play the bad guy this time so I grab the tanto and told them... I'm going afther you in full charge so you must deflec the blow and try to aply a technique to diseable me and then try to disarm me.
Again the fear but they realize they can kick me as ahard has they want, they can hot me the hard as they can and slowly got in set to do the exercise.
At trhe end of class I cherish two girls black belts and two black belt boys they overcome their fears and do the exercise very well, the only thing I told them was to use full force to overcome the other one.
I think the use of the wooden tanto was a good thing, it was something diferent and the kids got motivated.
Manny
Last night I was in chanrge so I knew the teens need to practice basics (even they don't like them at all), my point was... How you want to become a better fighter (sport) or martial artist IF your basics are poor, so it was good for me to teach proper technike, the blocks must be hard enough not only to deflect but to hurt and this is when a defense becomes an offense.
Afther basics, we did hanbon kyorigi, basic hanbok kiorugy (one steps) and then the kids again fooling around with techs so ugly and so not eficient that I have to tell them to retunr to the basics we were doing before, stick with the basic, why you want to do flamboyant moves if here in dojang those are clumsy and not efective? Stick to the basics..... all changed when I grab a wooden tanto.
When I grabed the wooden tanto I told them, whell.... we are going to use the same dinamics BUT using a weapon, if you don't use proper tech and comon sense you will be stab.
Again we got back to the basics and did one steps using trusting and slashing, in the begining the kids were scare about kick the hell out of them to try to put out of combat their enemy so I have to play the bad guy this time so I grab the tanto and told them... I'm going afther you in full charge so you must deflec the blow and try to aply a technique to diseable me and then try to disarm me.
Again the fear but they realize they can kick me as ahard has they want, they can hot me the hard as they can and slowly got in set to do the exercise.
At trhe end of class I cherish two girls black belts and two black belt boys they overcome their fears and do the exercise very well, the only thing I told them was to use full force to overcome the other one.
I think the use of the wooden tanto was a good thing, it was something diferent and the kids got motivated.
Manny