Tuesday, September 12, 2023

How I taught students

 



I only taught karate to young or old.

 

I was teaching at the local Boys and Girls Club with my programs.

 

Often at local events parents would ask me where they should take ther 3,4,,5 or 6 year old child to obtain karate training.

 

I always told them the truth, they could not get karate training for one so young, and they would be better off getting beginning dance training from a qualified instructor, both the boys and girls.

 

In reality beginning dance is better youth movement instruction for every child, to later be built upon whatever they later choose to be.

 

But especially the parents of boys recoiled at the idea of their son in dance class.

 

Reality my son and my daughter both studied early dance, and when I was young I too had beginning dance.

 

They really didn't want informed advice, just what they wanted to hear.

 



 

 

1 comment:

Victor Smith said...

Fiear to be a member of the Derry Boys and Girls Club you had to be between 7 abd 20. My range of students in both my youtn and adult program ranged in ages between 7 to 70. While I had a full range of students at variout times, most of the time the adults were of senior ages.

At all times the karate I taught was the same for all agesn abet the methods of instruction varies for the ages of my students.