Technique or principal?

[goshinman]

You want to get together and catch up? Maybe roll a little? I enjoyed toying with you.

 

Toying with me Man please thats not even fair. You've been studying judo for what, 20 years now? Thats almost longer than I've been alive. My ground game has gotten alot better as I have learned a few new tricks. My throwing is alway's good. All this despite the fact that at the dojo i'm training in right now they don't allow full out randori. But I manage to keep my skills sharp by rolling with the best peeps I can find in the area. I've been boxing alot lately and doing some thai clinch work over at the new gym down on colorado. The one that is a BJJ/Muaythai academy. It's pretty cool but some the BJJ guy's are a pain in the *.

[judoguy]

I now the place. Walter Michalowski runs that gym. He's a cool guy from what i've heard. As for the BJJ guy's being a pain so what else is new?Who runs the BJJ studio By the way?

[goshinman]

Waldomiro Perez is the instructor of the bjj camp. He is a cool guy, but some of his students are jerk offs.

[goshinman]

Let's PM each other because this is getting way off topic.

[Shane]

You must learn both, learn the technique and then go from there

[Kreisi]

principals and technique both of them

[Shorin Ryuu]

When teaching people, I usually emphasize to them the importance of the principle, teach them the technique, and then emphasize the principle once more.

 

Sometimes, it helps just to teach them several techniques that emphasize specifically one principle and see if they can grasp it (um, pun intended). Also, it isn't always necessary to have them grasp the principle the first few times they even do it. But, whether you are doing kata, a headlock, or whatever, it is important to relay the importance of the principle. Otherwise, you're setting them up by failure only by teaching techniques.