having the bottle

[2007]

i have been offerd the chance to teach at an open seminar, where different instructors from different styles come on to the mat for an hour a piece .

i'm excited about it but, i'm cacking myself

any advise on how to overcome this

[cross]

Plan what your going to do. Do a mock run of your presentation beforehand if you get the chance... And most importantly, be confident. You most likely wouldnt have been invited to instruct if you didnt have what it takes to do the job.

Best of luck.

[lordtariel]

i have been offerd the chance to teach at an open seminar, where different instructors from different styles come on to the mat for an hour a piece .

i'm excited about it but, i'm cacking myself

any advise on how to overcome this

That's a really cool concept. I wish we had something like that around here.

[bushido_man96]

Congratulations!

Like cross said, just relax, and make sure you have everything planned out, and you should be fine. It is normal to be a little nervous.

[Ziyad]

My experience is to sell yourself before you sell your art. If you get them interested in you, they will at the same time be interested in what you do.

Also figure out what's important for you to do there. Do you want to recruit people for yourself or for your dojo? Do you want to show-off your MA as the most effective or as the most flashy? Do you just want to have fun? Do you want to teach people the basics of your MA or do you just want to teach them the spirit of your MA?

If you know what you find important, then you'll figure out how to do it.

My most effective one-hour course for about half of these priorities was to give a capoeira lesson where I didn't teach any basics, but just made sure people felt the spirit of capoeira. I had people imitate animals and later had them sing with me. In the end we did a roda (somewhat similar to sparring) and although nobody did specific capoeira techniques, but they did move and interact as they should. In a way that it sometimes takes people more than a year to learn (it's harder to do it with learned techniques that are not yet incorporated into yourself).

I was impressed, but I had a very openminded group.