Do you WANT More from your Martial Art Training?
Do you WANT More? Are you looking for more from your martial art training? Are you tired of reviewing the same Kata, and preforming the same Waza over and over again?
If you are then this is because you are caught in the 5 year cycle as I call it. Today, GOOD martial art systems have curriculum, materials to teach, based on training 2 times per week, for 5 years. And this is a GOOD martial art system.
Do you WANT More?
How do I know this? Because I ran a commercial Dojo first for my instructor, and then my own Dojo for about 25 years. I have seen many taught by 2nd Dan Black Belts good for about 18 months.
But my Dojo had teachings for about 15 years. Today the coming Wolf's Den Dojo has an endless potential for study. Not 5 or even 20 years. There is no end to possible martial art study.
Recently I have had 2 different emails addressing this topic. Actually more but I want to reference 2. The first was a thank you for actually TEACHING things and not showing off and talking about them. The second was where to begin.
Do you WANT More from your Martial Art Training?
Let's discuss the first email. Yes I teach the martial arts. I am not interested in the BIG ego trips I see today. But that is just par for the course of things in the Western Culture. And I have become very much against the culture in the last decade.
Do you want more? Let's review what most martial artists are doing in their Dojo.
- Performance of Kata. Is it done the same way each time?
- Waza training. A specific set of waza for each belt level.
- Kicking drills.
- Sparring drills. Usually some time of "free" sparring. I am not sure why it is called "free." Like the illusion the West if Free?
- Rinse and repeat weakly
And then teachers struggle to keep students interested and training. Eventually all students quit and leave the teaching standing alone with a big lease payment. Does this sound familiar?
Do you WANT More - What else is there?
Now some school will do "Bunkai" which is actually just an interpretation of Kata done either by the teacher or passed on down the lineage. Real Bunkai would be a discussion, not another set of Waza.
What should be? Do you discuss or train:
- Concepts and Philosophy of the art?
- Real Bunkai on the Kata in the system?
- History of the system?
- Understanding the 32 different types of Kumite?
- What Body Mechanics is?
- The list is endless!
Do you WANT More in Conclusion
Today the martial arts have lost their BITE. People believe it is an activity for children.
Tell me I am wrong? Now I am all for children training. But... not at the expense of the effectiveness of the arts themselves.
Also please understand I am in favor of the commercial school. I will never have a Dojo again open to the general public, but that is me. I am building a private dojo however.
But it is up to the teachers to never think "they have arrived." Or that their system is complete. They should be still learning, and doing this is "living and teaching by example!" I have not stopped learning in my almost 40 years in the arts.
And because of this I can teach someone longer than I will live to complete the training. That is a deliberate paradox.
So, where do you start? I have a free course below. But do the course. 1 out of 3 never confirm their email and start. I hope to work with you soon!
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