Topic: SKM Magazine

[Huw]

SKM magazine, as usual, has many interesting articles but one in particular caught my imagination. In Scott Langley's arcticle he said

"Teaching is not training, but it's so easy to pretend they are the same."

Anyone care to comment ? I'm not really qualified 'cos I don't teach karate but I'd love to know what instructors think of this statement.

Oss

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[Mole Bach]

Huw,

I aggree entirely with Scott Langley here, as do the other instructors at Seki.....

Why do you think that we teach on a rota basis?????????


So that we can all TRAIN, rather than teach

[Dan]

I agree that teaching isn’t training (I hide as much as I can when people are been selected to teach) but I suppose it could help you to improve your training.

If you spend an hour correcting a lower grade’s basic moves and trying to explain things to them then it may well help you to improve your kihon and you might be forced to think about things you never thought about before like the purpose of a technique.

For example (taking what we have been focussing on for the past week); the reach in ageuke. Let’s say, to save time, whenever Mr. X does ageuke, he just opens his front hand and steps rather than reaching. One lesson, Mr. X has to teach a new white belt ageuke and regurgitates what he has been told a million times before; “reach, step block”.
After doing this 20 times, the white belt asks why you have to reach which forces Mr. X to think about it which in turn makes him think about other applications of the reach which makes him a better student… aww