How Instructors Can Improve Their Martial Arts Abilities!
One of the most shocking things in the martial arts is how instructors stop their own training
. By this I mean, after a somebody opens up his own school, they never get any more instruction for themselves. The idea that they hold to is that they know everything, and all they have to do now is polish it, perfect it, and time will be their teacher.
This concept, of course, is ridiculous. Yes, time will make a person better, but what will improve a person faster is getting more data. Imagine a computer which never inputs any further data and my case becomes obvious.
So you need more data if you are going to get better, and you need to make mental connections with other arts. For instance, if you've got a black belt in Karate, a course in Aikido is going to open your mind up. At the end of every karate technique, once you understand what Aikido really is, you can make additional techniques.
And, if you've got some good hard Shaolin, the next step is exploring the internal schools of Wudan. Aside from improving your overall knowledge of the martial arts, you now have more to offer your students. This is going to result in higher quality instruction, and it's going to be a lot of fun besides.
Now, let's say you don't have access to an aikido school, or a Wudan school, what do you do? Well, you read the magazines and the books, and this goes a long way. But the real key to improvement is in DVD courses.
You can pick up a course on an entire art, sometimes for as little as ten bucks a DVD, and you can lay on your couch and get up and practice to your hearts content. I used to buy so many arts at my supply store the owner gave me an automatic, good customer, ten per cent discount. And I would spend my late evenings and weekends analyzing and dissecting new arts until I had them totally cold.
When I walked into my kung fu school on at the beginning of the week, I always had a kettle full of great ideas. Students were always wondering how I cam up with such innovative ideas, and they were always blown out by the twists and interpretations I could give the same old same old kata and techniques. I tell ya, when people were bowing to me, they were bowing to superior knowledge by DVD, and that can happen to any instructor!
Now, when you pick out a Martial Arts DVD course, make sure it contains an entire art, and not just an overview, an overview is nothing more than icing, it's not the whole thing, there is rarely any meat to this kind of DVD. And, make sure you pick up a new art/course every 30 days, you need to make a project out of this, and not a whim. Martial Arts DVD courses are one of the best investments you can make in yourself, and if you are an instructor, it is imperative that you keep improving yourself, and DVDs are a blast to do.
by: Al Case
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