This teaching strategy is great for bo staff or weapons classes, but can be applied to any field in the martial arts. This strategy relates more basic techniques to the more difficult technique that you may be trying to teach.
The Flow System | Bo Staff | Weapons | Extreme | Sport Karate | Sport Martial Arts | Trick | Release | Teaching | Instructor Training
What is the proper way for instructors to handle sparring with students? Why doesn't the old school mentality still work?
Retention Based Sparring | Sparring | Point Sparring | Point Fighting
This teaching/training tip is very helpful in reminding us to always keep our goals in mind when training or teaching a class. This can be done in four simple steps: introduce, demonstrate, explain, and apply, or IDEA for short.
Olympic TKD | TKD | Tae Kwon Do | Sparring | Teaching
As instructors we don't just want to focus on physical skills, but we also need to teach our students the mental game. Mental defensive strategies are very important for sparring.
Retention Based Sparring | Sparring | Point Sparring | Point Fighting