An Important Item in Teaching Somebody to a Karate Black Belt within Three Months
Friday, May 6th, 2011Training somebody to the level of a Karate Black Belt in Three Months is an interesting experience. It's amazing fun, but there are several things you need to be extremely careful of should you plan to it. Here's one of the most important items.
First, you need to know your Matrixing, and you have to deliver the Three Month course exactly as prescribed. There can be no variations from the program. Afterwards, you'll find that your student's ability to learn is so good that you can make all sorts of deviations, but stick to the program if you want to get him there.
That said, key to delivery of the program is knowing when the student has actually grasped the material. He may not always be smooth in execution, but it's his mind that you have to watch. The moment he grasps the material, can do it with certainty, no matter how ragged, you congratulate him and move on to the next piece of material.
This is vital, because if you don't, he will hit a plateau. He may also become discouraged, for he has achieved something important, not been recognized, and he may even walk away as a result.
When I first realized this I had a problem. Do I ignore him winning, and work him until he is smooth, or do I accept a ragged technique that works, but is not pretty? I found that if I acknowledged his win, he started learning faster, and, here's something astounding...he tended not to forget as easily.
Now, some martial arts teachers are going to have a rough time with this, for one desires perfection in the martial arts, and one should want that. But, accept a slightly ragged movement in technique, and polish the living daylights out of him at the end of the program. Guaranteed, you will have faster learning students and less people will quit and move on.
The key factor to remember in this is that we are gauging experience versus knowledge. A classical Black Belt will have some of the knowledge and lots of experience. A Three Month Black Belt, done according to my program, will have ALL the knowledge, and some of the experience.
So, which would you rather have...a person who looks good, has some knowledge, and is learning slowly...or a person with all the knowledge, who doesn't look pretty, but can make it work, and who learns faster than fast? Personally, I will take a Martial Artist with knowledge any time, because that opens the door for even more learning. Once a Karate Black Belt is past such things as plateaus, has opened his eyes to what is going on, and has the knowledge, he can be polished to a far finer degree, and his art will rise like the sun.
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