Dojo Etiquette

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Question - where does asking questions stopping being seeking clarification and cross the line into dis-respect?

I am a big big fan of making sure you understand what you are doing and why, and sometimes the only way to do that is to ask the questions, can you show me again? How was that? What angle are you moving at? and sometimes you do have to ask that awful question, why?

I say awful, because some instructors don’t like it, it can imply questioning of them, however if you ask right, then it can be valid, like why do you block like that, or pull down on the arm like that, then that the instructor should not fear and you should not fear asking.

However, and  this can be one of my bug bears, the “what if” question! So many times you get that yeah, but what if i did this instead? Well then, I’d be doing a different technique! Not every technique will work against every attack, it just doesn’t work like that.

Saying that though, sometimes, you can raise something yourself as an option, something you’ve just come up with by accident maybe, then from some people, dependant on the way they ask I am really open to this, it’s a good way to stimulate me aswell as them, but you do get people who have a bit of a cocky attitude when raising it, and that is not on, that is stepping well over the line to a point where I’ll walk away, and I’ve known some instructors who’ll physically put you back in line.

Be aware, you’re instructor has some degree of responsibility to you, in actual fact, they have a lot of responsibility to you. However, don’t forget, you have a responsibility as well, to your instructor, to your fellow students and the art, respect it!

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We’re Back!

That’s it, holiday time over, its’ back to training tonight, 08/01/08. Something nice and easy to slowly get back into it?

Or some pad work to shock the system?

We’ll see, have to put some photos up for you.

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Purple Belt Success

We had a senior grading tonight at our training night, big congratulations to Steve and Greg who passed their purple belt grading, a very good grading technically and I think you can tell from the picture, very tiring!

I don’t feel it’s been earnt unless they’re totally wiped out!

Before that in the junior session we had another pruple belt grading, so congratulations also go to Megan for her success.

Keep it going all!

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