Your Opinion

[cathal]

OK so let's assume for a moment that the instructor isn't coming back for a little while. If the dojo/school belongs to an organization perhaps you can inform them and request some help. Are any of the senior students able to teach?

[bushido_man96]

OK so let's assume for a moment that the instructor isn't coming back for a little while. If the dojo/school belongs to an organization perhaps you can inform them and request some help. Are any of the senior students able to teach?

That's a good idea, checking with the organization. If there is no organization, then you should be able to have one of the high ranks fill in until the instructor gets back.

[P.A.L]

Don't do it in your house, go to a public place. there is allways chance of severe injury and liability issues, without a proper insurance it's not worth taking the risk. a friend of ours is a surgeon and has a small dojo in his parking, he only teaches some close friends free of charge, and it's not a commercial dojo, somebody brough a friend along and he practiced we them, a week later the guy called our friend and complained of neck injury, now he is sueing our friend for his injury.

[BLueDevil]

Sorry guys, I should have mentioned that I have been an asst. instructor for a little over a year. So I CAN teach pretty well but obviously not as well as say a black belt.

My instructor was part of the Jun Bao organization under James Ibrao. But as far as I can tell its a small org. and they wont be sending anybody. One student from a while back has come to the school and taught a little but I dont think its going to be a steady thing.

I have thought about finding a different school. Im seriously thinking about taking a grappling art to round myself out. I had a higher ranked student at my school that taught me some BJJ that he learned informally.

I have no fear that my friend will misuse what I teach him at all. He self admittedly has a love for the martial arts and has studied Shotokan in the past and is now wantign to learn Kempo. Some of the students and my friends are leaving the school as well as myself. I told one of my friends I was teaching a friend and has expressed interest in practicing with us as well, so I havent decided what Im going to do about that. Im not charging anybody so Im only profiting in experience and knowledge. Should I persue training with old partners as well as new? Or should I just train my friend and leave it at that? Or....shoudl I train alone and drop the whole thing?

I dont have the money right now to start a new school so Im kinda stuck....thoughts people?

[Brandon Fisher]

Given your friend having trained in the arts before I would train with him.

[bushido_man96]

Training with both old and new can be beneficial to your own training. Also, trying to find a way to finish out your training and getting to become an instructor may be a goal that you could work towards.

[cathal]

I agree, you may be able to salvage this situation by working with the organization to become a teacher.

[Sohan]

a yellow sash would be able to teach someone that has had no experience.

if you know more than someone else, then you can teach them something beneficial. obviously you can only teach them up to your level.

as long as you only teach what you know, and not something you are learning it will be ok.

The problem with this statement is that you are assuming the yellow sash understands and performs the material as well as they would at a higher level. This isn't true. Just because I may have learned Seisan to receive my green belt doesn't mean at that point I was as qualified to teach it. My current years of experience have given me insight and refinement to my kata that enables me to teach it with a deeper understanding than I ever could have at greenbelt rank.

Could I show the pattern to someone as a green belt? Sure. Would I be have been able to teach it as effectively as an instructor should at my current level? No way.

With respect,

Sohan

[BLueDevil]

a yellow sash would be able to teach someone that has had no experience.

if you know more than someone else, then you can teach them something beneficial. obviously you can only teach them up to your level.

as long as you only teach what you know, and not something you are learning it will be ok.

The problem with this statement is that you are assuming the yellow sash understands and performs the material as well as they would at a higher level. This isn't true. Just because I may have learned Seisan to receive my green belt doesn't mean at that point I was as qualified to teach it. My current years of experience have given me insight and refinement to my kata that enables me to teach it with a deeper understanding than I ever could have at greenbelt rank.

Could I show the pattern to someone as a green belt? Sure. Would I be have been able to teach it as effectively as an instructor should at my current level? No way.

With respect,

Sohan

I understand what your saying Sohan, and thats what Im afraid of. I already told him up front that I can teach him but I have yet to be ranked as a brown belt officially. I think it'll come out OK

[Zorbasan]

a yellow sash would be able to teach someone that has had no experience.

if you know more than someone else, then you can teach them something beneficial. obviously you can only teach them up to your level.

as long as you only teach what you know, and not something you are learning it will be ok.

The problem with this statement is that you are assuming the yellow sash understands and performs the material as well as they would at a higher level. This isn't true. Just because I may have learned Seisan to receive my green belt doesn't mean at that point I was as qualified to teach it. My current years of experience have given me insight and refinement to my kata that enables me to teach it with a deeper understanding than I ever could have at greenbelt rank.

Could I show the pattern to someone as a green belt? Sure. Would I be have been able to teach it as effectively as an instructor should at my current level? No way.

With respect,

Sohan

of course they arent able to perform the technique as good as a black belt.

but they perform it well enuf to get passed white sash. so techniquely, if they teach a white sash they way they do it, they should also be able to get passed white sash.

the point isnt will the yellow sash be able to teach as well as the instructor, the point is that someone with no experience will get something out of learning from someone with experience, regardless of how much experience it is.

does ian thorpe teach me to swim? no. will i drown if thrown in the deep end? no.