Category: teaching karate to kids

teaching karate to kids teaching kata

Amophie

May 18, 2010
Jason Stanley
3 Comments

There’s a exercise I do with my junior students from time to time where I give them 15 minutes to make up a kata… Basically they pair off and work together to create a short kata of 10-15 moves which they’ll come up and demonstrate in synchronized fashion for the rest of the class. The […]

teaching karate teaching karate to kids

Teacher or Tyrant?

January 12, 2010
Jason Stanley
8 Comments

A few years ago I had a family who had both young boys and their dad train at my dojo. They were lovely people and always enjoyed being part of the club. They wanted to help out where they could, always attended club activities and always spoke highly of the school recruiting new people whenever […]