Do you do the same basics before every class?

[bushido_man96]

Sounds like your school is very organized and it will help to keep those new students feeling included. We didn't do it that way. Honestly...I may try to include that in the future though.

It does work out nicely, because of the way the basics are taught. Once the orientation is complete, and the students are doing basics in the class, they start learning their form. What is nice about the basics is that the techniques are perfromed in the same stance that they usually are done in the form with. For example, we do double knifehand blocks in basics in a back stance. Most of the time in the forms, the double knife hand block is done in a back stance. So, in this way, it re-enforces the learning. Instead of thinking of technique and stance seperatly, they come together.

[bushido_man96]

Our school has a set of basics that it does at the beginning of each class, and it usually take 15 to 20 minutes to get through them. We also use them when we have orientations for new students. We spend two weeks orienting them, and then they go right into the regular class, being able to do the same warm-up as everyone. This helps to avoid confusion, and facilitate classroom interaction.

Does everyone else have the same set of basics that are done prior to all of the classes? Or do you change the order and types of exercises that you do? Just wondering.

Yes, and if you go from one Uechi dojo to another they're pretty close. Now the exception being that advanced classes will do different exercises than beginners, but they're all things that we've been through.

The basics for our school are uniform throughout the Association that our school is under. It is nice, that way when you visit another school, you can jump right into class and know what is going on, for the most part.

[Shui Tora]

We have two sessions on a Monday and a Friday. The first session is for the beginners up to Yellow belt, then the Senior grades come in after the novices have left...

It depends on the scenario (sp?) About a month before gradings, we practice all the belts tecniques (starting form bluw all the way to black) so that everyone gets a taste of what is to come.

That same is with Katas, we do each kata step by step, then have the relevant grade (and higher) for that kata to go through...

Other than that, we usually pull something outta the hat for warm-ups... Nothing too hard or too special really...

[patusai]

We started off with basics and they were the same ones. Perhaps not in the same order every time but we went through a list of them all. Perfecting basics was suppose to be our first goal

[lordtariel]

We don't cover the same basics in every class, but we always cover some of them.

[kivikala]

Our school has a set of basics that it does at the beginning of each class, and it usually take 15 to 20 minutes to get through them. We also use them when we have orientations for new students. We spend two weeks orienting them, and then they go right into the regular class, being able to do the same warm-up as everyone. This helps to avoid confusion, and facilitate classroom interaction.

Does everyone else have the same set of basics that are done prior to all of the classes? Or do you change the order and types of exercises that you do? Just wondering.

My classes are pretty uniform as we practice basic techniques in the form of the Shotokan's Ten-no-kata Omote at the beginning of each and every class for about 10 minutes. After that we will branch in to more varying kihon (basics) for about 20 mins and then Kata (forms) for an hour and kumite (sparring) for a half-hour after that (actual times may vary from class to class).

[bushido_man96]

Our school has a set of basics that it does at the beginning of each class, and it usually take 15 to 20 minutes to get through them. We also use them when we have orientations for new students. We spend two weeks orienting them, and then they go right into the regular class, being able to do the same warm-up as everyone. This helps to avoid confusion, and facilitate classroom interaction.

Does everyone else have the same set of basics that are done prior to all of the classes? Or do you change the order and types of exercises that you do? Just wondering.

My classes are pretty uniform as we practice basic techniques in the form of the Shotokan's Ten-no-kata Omote at the beginning of each and every class for about 10 minutes. After that we will branch in to more varying kihon (basics) for about 20 mins and then Kata (forms) for an hour and kumite (sparring) for a half-hour after that (actual times may vary from class to class).

Sounds like you have a long class. That would be nice, though. Ours is only an hour long, but I can go 4 times a week. I think if I ever started a school again, I would have 1.5 hour classes.

[ps1]

Sounds like your school is very organized and it will help to keep those new students feeling included. We didn't do it that way. Honestly...I may try to include that in the future though.

It does work out nicely, because of the way the basics are taught. Once the orientation is complete, and the students are doing basics in the class, they start learning their form. What is nice about the basics is that the techniques are perfromed in the same stance that they usually are done in the form with. For example, we do double knifehand blocks in basics in a back stance. Most of the time in the forms, the double knife hand block is done in a back stance. So, in this way, it re-enforces the learning. Instead of thinking of technique and stance seperatly, they come together.

This does sound like a great way to help beginners fit in well. Thanks for sharing

[bushido_man96]

Anytime, ps1.

[jaymac]

We have a general warm up exercise done at every class. We always put new students with a higher ranking kyu student or black belt at first to orient them to the training and the basics. Luckily however, we have several black belt students who can lead groups according to rank and practice basics on up to their current level of training.