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[Chuilli, Kyo Sah Nim]

Well its not really a general teaching suggestion but i always tell my students, always ask why, if you want to know. especially with bunkai in forms, if they are doing a form and they dont know why, well then whats the point. so tell them, even if you cant answer why, you will find out for them, as i was coming up the ranks i always found that reassuring and also i needed alittle more of a challenge and some of your students will as well so they need the nit-picky things like bunkai specifics and such. other than that, congrats, good luck, and lemme tell yeah teaching is a horse of a new color but a thrill as well. good luck.

in tang soo,

k.chuilli

[bushido_man96]

What I do is actually write down what I did in class in a journal. I started doing this when I was a white belt, now I have pages and pages of different classes for various experience levels. If sensei tells me to lead a class, I've got lots of examples to draw on. Sit in on a few classes for the age and experience level you are going to be teaching. Take some notes and see what people respond best to.

This is a great idea, and I have done the same thing. Make sure to chart on the paper what the focus of the class was, if it went into specifics. That way, you will have a variety of classes with different focuses, and if it rolls around like that again, you can go to a specific section, instead of looking randomly around in a huge notebook.