Any instructors out there?

[Szczepankiewicz]

How many forum members are actually instructors, or assistant instructors?

Does anyone have kids (of their own) that they are teaching?

[Lacrymosa]

I'm an instructor in TKD.....and I teach my friends, family, and colleques what I've picked up in Judo and BJJ over the last 13 years.

My wife's brothers (3 of them ages 13-19) have always been my "projects". They picked up extremely well and are pretty well-rounded on the ground and on their feet. I usually have fun pitting them on the ground against their wrestling-based relatives.

[YeLLa-TiGeR]

I WAS a TKD instructor. I taught at summer camps, introductory lessons and classes.

[dan downard]

Ther are lots of instructors who read these forums.They just dont post because the get harrased by trolls.

[KyleS]

BJJ instructor

I'm an instructor, I teach BJJ. However, I'm not a black-belt, which is perhaps what you're asking.

- Kyle
Saunders BJJ

[Szczepankiewicz]

Actually, the answers I am getting ARE what I am after. In my dojo, we start teaching after we hit the brown belt. We are watched closely by the sensei. You don't have to be a black belt to teach.

I have been a brown belt for 18 months and have about 50 hours of teaching. That's a lot, considering that we only have 6 hours of class total per week.


We teach small classes of 1 to 6 students at a time. I am curious as to:

1) How larger schools teach. It is my impression that TKD and most larger schools teach by showing a technique to the large group of students and have them practice with training partners while the advanced students (instructors and asst. instructors) walk around and assist. This is how the local judo club teaches lower level students. This is how we do it as well, when we have a larger number of students.

2) Specific teaching methods of each martial art. To teach different styles, you must have different methods. As the philosophies are often different. TKD and Kenpo want to strike, so they use different strategies. Grapplers want to close and wrassle. etc, etc. I am curious as to how you combine the two. I know how we do it, and I would like to hear how others do it.

3) The MA community around Boise is buttoned down and no one talks to anyone. I have heard that Mr. La Tourette is partially responsible for the ongoing "fussin' and a fuedin' " that goes on here, but that is only rumor. Needless to say, there aren't a lot of people to talk to.

4) I cannot find a real BJJ school around here, so any and all info I can get from you folks is most appreciated.


Thanks

SZ

[Szczepankiewicz]

Actually, the answers I am getting ARE what I am after. In my dojo, we start teaching after we hit the brown belt. We are watched closely by the sensei. You don't have to be a black belt to teach.

I have been a brown belt for 18 months and have about 50 hours of teaching. That's a lot, considering that we only have 6 hours of class total per week.


We teach small classes of 1 to 6 students at a time. I am curious as to:

1) How larger schools teach. It is my impression that TKD and most larger schools teach by showing a technique to the large group of students and have them practice with training partners while the advanced students (instructors and asst. instructors) walk around and assist. This is how the local judo club teaches lower level students. This is how we do it as well, when we have a larger number of students.

2) Specific teaching methods of each martial art. To teach different styles, you must have different methods. As the philosophies are often different. TKD and Kenpo want to strike, so they use different strategies. Grapplers want to close and wrassle. etc, etc. I am curious as to how you combine the two. I know how we do it, and I would like to hear how others do it.

3) The MA community around Boise is buttoned down and no one talks to anyone. I have heard that Mr. La Tourette is partially responsible for the ongoing "fussin' and a fuedin' " that goes on here, but that is only rumor. Needless to say, there aren't a lot of people to talk to.

4) I cannot find a real BJJ school around here, so any and all info I can get from you folks is most appreciated.


Thanks

SZ