i recently gained my assistant instructors badge, very proud of myself!
i've been helping out with the kiddies class, it wasn't so much to become an instructor, i just love the kids' live wire attitude to learning and Tang Soo, some of the adults could take a leaf out of there book!
what i've noticed about one or tow of the kids is there determination to learn there forms, the is one little lad who had such a determined face when doing his techniques, its a joy, this same lad i noticed last week has a unique way to doing his form. i asked him to show me Pyung Ahn Ee Dan, so he went through it, not absolutley perfect, couple of times he went the wrong direction so i helped him out, showed him which way he should be going and then asked him to find a space at the back and go through it himself a couple of times, i was helping another student and noticed that the lad was going through the form with his eyes clamped shut, when i asked him why he was doing this he said that if he had his eyes open he couldn't remember which way i had gone!! wanting to test him on it further on in the class we moved on to line work for 10 minutes or so and then came back to the forms, he remembered it perfectly!
maybe we should try and adopt the simple way that kids do things, they don't fret too much and they aren't afraid to ask questions!
i've been helping out with the kiddies class, it wasn't so much to become an instructor, i just love the kids' live wire attitude to learning and Tang Soo, some of the adults could take a leaf out of there book!
what i've noticed about one or tow of the kids is there determination to learn there forms, the is one little lad who had such a determined face when doing his techniques, its a joy, this same lad i noticed last week has a unique way to doing his form. i asked him to show me Pyung Ahn Ee Dan, so he went through it, not absolutley perfect, couple of times he went the wrong direction so i helped him out, showed him which way he should be going and then asked him to find a space at the back and go through it himself a couple of times, i was helping another student and noticed that the lad was going through the form with his eyes clamped shut, when i asked him why he was doing this he said that if he had his eyes open he couldn't remember which way i had gone!! wanting to test him on it further on in the class we moved on to line work for 10 minutes or so and then came back to the forms, he remembered it perfectly!
maybe we should try and adopt the simple way that kids do things, they don't fret too much and they aren't afraid to ask questions!