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I've hit a bit of a wall in terms of my development at the moment. My instructor has recently changed his own training programme and become quite focused on that after being let down by a student helping him with his training. I guess he's left me to my own devices thinking I am happy just doing what I am doing. I'm gonna have a sit down with him to review what I'm doing and go through what I want to do. He has asked me before where I want to go with it and seems he thinks I am happy coasting along. In his eyes I think unless your making the Art your be all and end all there's not much point. I tend to not to look too far ahead but am happy to carry on progressing with the Art. I can't remember the last time I've learnt something new from him to be honest. He gets on with his training and I've just been working on what I already know.
Personally I want to learn more than I am. I don't really have any clear structure to follow that comes from him. I understand there is no point moving on from any technique to a new one if you have not developed it.
Up to now I have covered in two years (which includes many private lessons over that time) Footwork drills, straight lead punch,cross,hook, uppercut, lowline roundhouse kicking (knee, thigh), oblique kick, side kick, Chi Sao, Lop Sao, Pak Sao (intermittently without consistent drilling) and main arm bar, leg lock techniques in grappling.
There is a lot of theory that has never really been explained to me regarding centreline, Four Corner parry, the use of energy drills and combining of techniques.
He seems to put the onus on me as to what I want to learn and yet he is the one with the experience who should know what I a)need to work on b)what I can possibly move onto next. If anyone has got an idea or a breakdown of structured progress for students I'd be interested to see it to help give me some direction and questions for my instructor.
Personally I want to learn more than I am. I don't really have any clear structure to follow that comes from him. I understand there is no point moving on from any technique to a new one if you have not developed it.
Up to now I have covered in two years (which includes many private lessons over that time) Footwork drills, straight lead punch,cross,hook, uppercut, lowline roundhouse kicking (knee, thigh), oblique kick, side kick, Chi Sao, Lop Sao, Pak Sao (intermittently without consistent drilling) and main arm bar, leg lock techniques in grappling.
There is a lot of theory that has never really been explained to me regarding centreline, Four Corner parry, the use of energy drills and combining of techniques.
He seems to put the onus on me as to what I want to learn and yet he is the one with the experience who should know what I a)need to work on b)what I can possibly move onto next. If anyone has got an idea or a breakdown of structured progress for students I'd be interested to see it to help give me some direction and questions for my instructor.