fear of looking stubid

[seeker]

Ok. last monday at training when we had to take pairs one guy came to me and said reverently "have trained for a long time?" I sead no and he answered "good, neither have I".
But shouldn´t it be the opposite? wouldn´t it be better to train with someone who has experience? wouldn´t that give you more during the training?

[dave_UK_MT]

Your supposed to learn from your instructor not your training partner.
Training with someone more experienced than you can be good and bad, good when your learning a new technique as they can show you how its done, bad when your sparring and you get your arse kicked. Its frustrating to be sparring with someone you can't hit.

[eXcessiveForce]

this is how I always explained it to my students.

You learn new things from me and the other instructors.

you practice on lower skill level students and when you think you have it try it on an instructor and see. If it works a few times against an instructor you have it. If it doesn't then the instructor can give you tips and you head back to the lower ranks to practice.

This way. you get better, your training partner gets experience and the instructor has time to work with everyone.

it can be very frustrating if you are sparring with an instructor because they should always be using a slightly higher skill level than you possess. My students would often get frustrated when their new "secret" technique never worked on me. Usually it was because they had not developed the skill to such a point that I would let them have success with it. Once it was a well trained technique I might let it work once. Once they were using it regularly they would become proficient enough to even catch me with it on occasion.

[Hulk]

Originally posted by eXcessiveForce
Once they were using it regularly they would become proficient enough to even catch me with it on occasion.

/me bangs head on the wall

u shouldn't have said that, cos now i don't know whether i really punched my instructor or that he let me. lol

[JIMI]

Stubid? LOL LMAO!!!!!!!SORRY FOR THE SPAM, BUT HAD TO

[Scott Kano]

In any art it can be good and bad, But I reckon it can be very frustrating when i was in the lower ranks in Judo. I felt frustrated that i could not get on my holds, and I could not throw my opponent, its because I hadnt developed the conditiong of the technique, and had not fully understood the process of how it is applied and the steps.

[Shadi]

Sometimes it's good to train with someone in your level. If you try to jump out too fast. It will be like a pee wee leaguer playing against a major leaguer. You want become a martial arts master in one day. It all takes time, as you too move up the ladder..as far as skills are concerned. You will pair off with someone who has become more advanced. In other words, it's a learning process..until you get better I wouldn't challenge too many people who are ranked better than yourself. Then they'll complain about the lack of competition there getting.