We'll talk about some of the qualities and characteristics that I see are
necessary for a good instructor so let's talk about it stay tuned welcome to
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the day is what do you like about your main instructor in the martial arts
you can also no idea what draws you to them let's talk about what does it take
to be a good instructor and what should you look for in an instructor. There are
many ways to determine who is a good instructor and throughout history we've
all seen it even in our school days when we had a favorite teacher who knew how
to teach us something we didn't know and we always remembered him but the
important thing to remember those people were educated in what they knew and not
only that they had two characteristics and personality to teach what they knew
there's an old saying "If you can't do it you teach", well I don't believe that I
believe that's an understatement on the part of what you're trying to say with
your teacher I've known many great instructors out there that you would
never know that we're martial arts unless they told you and many of those
guys are so quiet and knowledgeable you wouldn't think about it personally I'm
passionate about martial arts I always have been since the early seventies and
to me when I learned it it was about learning I didn't want to be the best
martial artist in the world I didn't want to be a top name person I did want
to learn martial arts and I did want to eventually teach it because there's
something special about it and an instructor feels that in their heart to
be a good instructor an instructor never stops the ability to want to learn in
the style I'm in sensei is a person who's a teacher he's a person who's
studied himself and brought him up to a certain level you have to be a awarded to
sensei in our style you could get your third and fourth Dan and still not be a
sensei although most styles tend to think well
if you've got a third degree black belt he must be in a senseo in the second
level is basically a Shihan. Shihan is basically a teacher of
teachers now when you look at it from that standpoint it's hard for the
beginning student to ever get anybody but the junior instructors are the
sensei's now I don't believe that's the best option for most people out there if
you've got a sheet on that's teaching the main part of a class you've got
something very important there now understand some people out there have
given themselves the title of Shihan it too has to be awarded it's usually
awarded to fifth and sixth degree black belts in the martial arts specifically
Japanese martial arts but whatever your instructors are call understand their
levels understand what they're doing to continue their own education me I study
Okinawan karate on the side I study all kinds of different kung-fu aspects I
study Bubishi I keep continuing to add to my style so a good martial arts
instructor never stops learning they have got the ability to break it down an
explanation for the student to understand that's not as easy as it
sounds and it's definitely not as hard as putting it on a video the one thing I
do say about when I'm teaching if I can't do it why would I make you do it
physically you may be able to do things the instructor can't but my job is not
to make you as good as I am but to make you better than I am I don't want
somebody to be almost as good or as good as me I want them to be better I want
them to take the knowledge that they learn from me and any other instructor
build on it build their own system their own style yes keep a base style but as
we know with many famous martial artists they took the style that they learned
and made it their own you're saying well so style matters no style doesn't matter
let's look at tennis pros ever tennis pro you see out there has a different
style but they started off the same way learning how to serve learning how to
volley back and forth it was the same but then they had to learn to move and
make it their own because once they had the basics down then they had to work on
getting their techniques correct now the things you should look for for yourself
as one somebody who doesn't seem overbearing now remember and a martial
arts instructors especially classical ones expect you to listen to them but
some of the best martial artists I know expect you to ask questions too because
if you don't ask a question they're not sure always how you're going to
understand so you have to have some vocalizations in order to express what
you're trying to learn and where they plan to take you make
sure they have gold systems whether it's by belt whether it's by learning certain
techniques before you going to the next one
however they rank make sure you have goals that you can build up on a
stepladder like I said martial arts has a belt but
there are other systems that just teach you until you can get certain techniques
down in boxing you would have the amateurs and then you have the pros you
just there are so many different facets to different types of martial arts but
there are progressions and make sure there is some sort of goal or
progression in your studies that you're doing sometimes it's better to find an
instructor who has multiple styles under their belts and high ranking and maybe
once low-ranking maybe both are high ranking I don't know but make sure that
they've got the certifications that they need I know many instructors who have
self-promoted themselves and it's kind of sad to watch them because they didn't
get the acknowledgement from their peers and so they promoted themselves I don't
think I couldn't live with myself if I had promoted myself because I want to make
sure that the instructors who taught me and those that I've been around really
get Who I am another thing to make sure find out how their standings are in the
community sometimes it doesn't hurt for you to find out who the person is and
how many people know them now don't go buy something every person you meet
because somebody doesn't like somebody all the time or oh they think this
person's a pompous person or the they don't talk to you well maybe they're
quiet always remember people are people and you can't judge by who they are but
by what their actions are so if they're a good upstanding community minded
individual and they're teaching martial arts to students you know there's some
good to it if they've got a job like some of us have some of them just teach
for a hobby on the side however that doesn't make them an inadequate
instructor so just find out a little bit about the person check around google
them thank goodness for the internet if you're wanting to have your kids learn
check what then go in and watch the classes that they're teaching with the
kids now there comes a time when the kids do intermingle with the adults and
that's usually when they're from the tents to the teens especially if they've
gotten up into the higher ranks such as getting close to their black belts or
halfway up close to their black belts because sometimes they need the advanced
training that it gets in the adult classes
kids classes can be highly specialized make sure the people teaching them know
what they're doing that's why you should go watch and if you want to watch for
yourself ask there are times you will have closed sessions like during tests
and stuff like that only family members can come in but that's a different story
so most of the time most Duggars will let you sit and watch and probably the
instructor will talk to you and tell you what their things are or their junior
instructor somebody there will talk to you and if they know for the classes to
get done if they see you get their attention so you can ask more questions
so I hope this little conversation on on instructors helps you guys out there
just remember out there do your research understand what's going on make sure
they're legitimate I'm not saying what styles are better than others because
it's not the style that's the best it's the person who's teaching it and
learning it that makes a style the best and if you like this you like it and
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