kickn' the knees

[dragos]

Hi, i'm David from Mexico i have a self defense school in mexico city, my students mostly are 'bout 17 to 20 years old i have like 250 students and i am running out of ideas, i usually practice tae kwon do, jiu ji tsu, boxing and kick boxing, but my creativity in runnig dry so i need some advice, i need to prepare the subject of low kick, they know already how to do it but they need to practice it a lot, what i did with my students last year, i bought 1 watermelon per student and they had to break the watermelon with the low kick, and i need a new idea for that.

 

Some help? Please!!!!

[Master Jules]

Make Sangria

[White Warlock]

Wow, 250 watermelons! That's a lot of money there bub.

 

Seems you're looking for gadgets and games to keep the students interested. If they are not interested by the 3rd month, they really never will be. The learning should be sufficient to hold their interest. If not, then maybe the teaching needs to be a tad more spirited. Gadgets and games are great 'utilities' for kids, but you're dealing with young adults.

 

Good luck in finding what you're looking for, although... in my humble opinion... i don't feel that what you're looking for is what you should be focusing on.

[Shane]

We always train low kicks, especially side shin kicks to the thigh I like to partner up my students and have one do the kick while the other one uses a shin block to defend agains the kick, I then allow the kicker to mix it up from left to right not letting the defender know where the kick is coming from and then they must use a shin block to defend against it. Mix it up a bit and have the kicker sometimes use a higher side kick (ribs) so the defender has to block with their forearms, sometimes throwing low front kicks in is also a good idea and having the defender shuffle backwars out of the way of the kick.

 

Good training exercise for the kicker and defender, then once they have done if for awhile switch the kicker to the defender and the defender to the kicker

[SoonerJohn]

Instead of using a watermelon, try using a cat!

 

Just joking, I love cats, its just that dogs are better.

[Dijita]

Meow! My cat rules!

 

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(This thread has been hijacked by Dijita)

[dragos]

I know i have to keep my students focused in a disciplined way not only games and stuff, but once a year i make some alternate activities so the discipline wouldn't become a rutine and my kids stay in class, i allways use dumi and stuff but new ideas allways works, i need something agressive and at the time fun, like 2 years ago i put my students to break wood sticks with the low kick so what i am trying to do is to keep my guys motivated and focused with some distraction, and a lesson to remember.

[Nick_UKWC]

Don't you have an association or syllabus or experience that can help you with this? seems like a slightly odd thing to be asking on a web forum to be honest.

[Master Jules]

Wow, 250 watermelons! That's a lot of money there bub.

 

Seems you're looking for gadgets and games to keep the students interested. If they are not interested by the 3rd month, they really never will be. The learning should be sufficient to hold their interest. If not, then maybe the teaching needs to be a tad more spirited. Gadgets and games are great 'utilities' for kids, but you're dealing with young adults.

 

Good luck in finding what you're looking for, although... in my humble opinion... i don't feel that what you're looking for is what you should be focusing on.

 

Thats a very good point WW.......we share the same opinion on this one.

[dragos]

No associations, in my career of martial arts i have studied, boxing(6 years), karate (3years), tae kwon do (10 years), krav maga ( 5 years ), jiu jitsu ( 2 years ), kick boxing ( 1 year ), and aiki do ( 2 years ).

 

and i found that in most of all of them, all associations are (OPNMA) Only Profits No Martial Arts, and in Mexico people needs te have the knowledge to defend themselves this is not USA or Europe where you can walk out free and manage your martial arts just as a hobbie instead of a need.

 

i hate associatios, and you should too.

 

( When i was 15 and a tae kwon do student i was going to do my exam for black belt and my partner didn't, he just gave $10000.00 pesos (around $1000 usd) to the association and boom he was a black belt before i was )

 

And that is one of thousands experiences that i've had in my career.

 

Sorry i can't control my self when i talk 'bout associations.