Student handbook

[aefibird]

Does anyones club have a handbook that you give out to new students?

 

If so, what sort of info do you put in it?

 

My karate dojo is thinking of creating a handout to give to new students and I'd be interested in hearing what you all have in yours!

 

Thanks.

[cathal]

Well my dojo doesn't have one, but I'd include the basics pertaining to dojo ettiquette as well as how to tie your belt and all of the little things like that.

[Dijita]

I don't have the book in hand, but here is what I remember:

 

- A history of Kyokushin as well as a history on Mas Oyama.

 

- The japanese translations of a lot of our techniques.

 

- Dojo and student etiquette.

 

- A diagram of the different stances used with Japanese translation.

 

- Then it listed all of the Kyu's and the required things you NEED to know for testing for that Kyu, for example the kata's you need to know, the self defense techniques, any written stuff that might be asked, if you are required to do any kumite.

 

I think there was other stuff too, but I'll update this post when I go home tonight and take a look at our book.

 

It's definately a nice thing to have for new students.

[Legion]

the club i go to hasnt been running long but a book would be a good idea ... atm the main proffesional advice we get is monthly from a visiting master

[Fenris-wolf]

Yeah, we have a booklet thingy our instructor gives to people when they're considering entering the ring.

 

Uh... Has some sets of drills we do (thai pad drills, focus mitt drills and knee drills), advice on how to be a well-rounded fighter, LOTS of stuff on analysis of different fighting styles (aggressive fighter, elusive, counter, tricky, universal), related to this a lot of information on fighter psychology -our instructor is big on mind games-, finished off with some self-analysis tables and a whole lot of different "battle tactics". I think he got a lot of this off a specific website, don't know which one. Quite a lot of quotes from Sun Tzu, The Art of War!

 

Dunno if that helped at all, hope so. Good luck!

[Beka]

There's a Cuong Nhu book that lists all the moves and the testing requirements and the philosophical stuff in it... Technically we're supposed to be learning a bunch of ethics things but, at my dojo, we don't really do that. You can get a copy of it if you want, but it's not required by my sensei. As far as dojo etiquette and the major style ethics and rules go, they're posted on the wall.

[Guy_Mendiola]

Yeah, In Tae Kwon Do I got the student handbook and it shows all of the basics and etiqutees and all of the belt techniques to advance in testing.

[renketsu]

I hand out a double sided A4 leaflet to new students with information about:

 

Student expectations what they should expect and what we expect of them.

 

Training - when, where and how much.

 

Instructors - who we are and what qualification we have.

 

Japanese words and customs - forwarning that we are wierdos pretending to be Japanese!

 

Gradings - when, how and cost.

 

Belt system - what colours are.

 

Courses - why and what.

 

Competitions - when and what they involve.

 

Fees - continuing training (licencing costs and buying a Gi).

 

Website - info about technical stuff on there (stances, blocks, punches, kicks, strikes, competition terms, terminology list etc).

 

This should be able to answer anything that the student forgot to ask during the lesson... I deliberately dont give out a book full of techniques as the basic info is on my website and detailed info needs to be gained through training.

 

Andy.

[italian_guy]

In my schools we have no paper manuals but we have websites which contain lots of information for new students especially the karate school site has history info, list of katas with historical info about them, a pictures with the fundamental technique and their Japanease names, other necessary Japanese words for the etiquette.

 

Unfortunately it is written only in italian .

[Draven Chen Zhen]

I you enroll in my school, you get a video with the forms, kicks, ... you have to know for your next belt.

 

Greetzzz ChenZy