Observing the symptoms and finding the cause

[sensei8]

^ Yes Bob, that's kinda what I'm getting at. I guess in a sense I'm trying to say, when did you move past the superficial level of just saying a technique is wrong and giving a correction for it to being able to move back along the chain and see why they were trying to do it that way in the first place.

A lot of the time, for me, corrections I give tend to be centred around stances and stance transitions which if wrong, through a chain then affect the strikes and kicks themselves. The signs we see when something is wrong is manifested in the kicks and punches (i.e. the symptoms) and more often than not, the right correction to give for a better punch isn't to do something different with the arm itself but usually it's in the feet, the weight and the body posture first.

I guess in my training why I'm only developing this way of looking at techniques relatively later on compared to you guys is because I just haven't been around lower grades particularly for the last 5 or so years. I've only really been around higher grades than myself or my peers.

This tends to make me repeat my original post.

[ShoriKid]

For me it was the later kyu grades. We were required to teach lower kyu grades (supervised of course) as part of our training. When you have to break techniques down for people that don't know anything, or just have the roughest idea you start looking for the under lying causes. As you do it more, you get better at it. You learn to make fewer corrections and have to really go for the root cause of the problem. If you want to confuse a white/yellow belt give him 10 corrections on his reverse punch. Instead you fix 2 things. The 2 things that will fix 8 others.

[bushido_man96]

For me it was the later kyu grades. We were required to teach lower kyu grades (supervised of course) as part of our training. When you have to break techniques down for people that don't know anything, or just have the roughest idea you start looking for the under lying causes. As you do it more, you get better at it. You learn to make fewer corrections and have to really go for the root cause of the problem. If you want to confuse a white/yellow belt give him 10 corrections on his reverse punch. Instead you fix 2 things. The 2 things that will fix 8 others.

I remember when I started doing some of this in classes. What an eye opener it was. And such a great experience.