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A thought on Teaching

my-admin — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 09:56:48 +0000

So after teaching Karate for over twenty years I have come to a conclusion. Ok one of many but I want to share this particular one with you. You see, only in the last four years have I been teaching people that I have never met before. Ok I know every beginner that walks into your Dojo to start Karate is a stranger, well mostly, except for the odd friend or family member and we all know how that turns out, right! But I have also had the chance recently to teach experienced Karate ka, of all grades. In the last four years I’ve had some new experiences, what with organisational changes I’ve found myself both travelling away to teach at other Dojo and strangers visiting to train at my Dojo. I find these encounters, well, different. When I say different I thinks that’s ok that it’s different. Financially it’s more rewarding but on a personal level it leaves me feeling something else, something very different. It’s necessary though I guess, to share on all levels, as an Instructor of course I want to share, to spread the ‘Word’ I believe that the whole Student/Sensei relationship is based on much […]

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Quality, Quantity or both? Both? Really? Is that even ethical?

my-admin — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 09:54:05 +0000

Having taught Karate here in South Devon for 18 years now and having moved away from a very densely populated area where I trained and competed with a well known International Karate Organisation that bears those three letters, I have some thoughts to share. In a way I’m sharing these thoughts not only as a matter of interest for those that are interested but also to counter some opinions and feelings out there on large Karate schools and organisations. Presently here in South Devon we operate 7 Dojos with 5 Instructors from Shodan up to Godan. We have around 140 Students attending these Dojo and we operate a fee structure to accommodate various levels of training occasions. We operate under the name Chi Rei Kai as an Independent organisation. We often hear other Karate-ka (of varying ability) profess how it’s wrong to be a big Dojo and as such they say that quality is compromised over quantity. Even the phrase Mc Dojo has been coined in our direction. Or certainly inferred anyway. It’s worthy of note though that often if not every time these emissions are from Karate-ka that are either aspiring to get just one student of their own […]

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Be a Student or don’t be a Student

my-admin — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 09:50:36 +0000

Karate is such a complex study. Not only does it entail learning new physicality but also some mental development.

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