{"id":2439,"date":"2013-12-03T09:43:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T17:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karateteaching.com\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2013-12-03T09:55:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T17:55:04","slug":"sensei-isms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/sensei-isms\/","title":{"rendered":"Your words have impact…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love him or hate him, Sensei John Kreese from the “Karate Kid” became famous in pop-culture.<\/p>\n

On entering the dojo Daniel-san hears Kreese ask his class:<\/p>\n

“Fear does not exist in this dojo, does it?”
\nClass Responds: “NO, SENSEI!”<\/p>\n

“Pain does not exist in this dojo, does it?”
\nClass Responds: “NO, SENSEI!”<\/p>\n

“Defeat does not exist in this dojo, does it?”
\nClass Responds: “NO, SENSEI!”<\/p>\n

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Sensei John Kreese warning Miyagi Sensei back in 1984’s movie “The Karate Kid”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What you say in your classes has an impact on your students. It affects their mindset, their performance and ultimately the way they feel about karate. That affects morale and your student retention.<\/p>\n

Kreese used negative reinforcement to instill fear into his students and then ironically stated that “Fear doesn’t exist in this dojo”. Contradictory, wouldn’t you agree? No wonder his students were angry and confused just like him. <\/em><\/p>\n

(Yes, I realize it was a movie… but when you teach you’ve got to remember, “Monkey see, monkey do”.)<\/em><\/p>\n

I do my best to keep it positive, to motivate and teach responsibility and accountability to my students. Here are a baker’s dozen of my “sensei-isms” I use regularly to engage my classes. Feel free to use them in your dojo…<\/p>\n

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  1. “I want to see results, not hear excuses!”<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n
  2. “The word “can’t” doesn’t exist in this dojo!”<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n
  3. “Pain is just weakness leaving the body”<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n
  4. “Is this the world’s slowest punch competition?”<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n
  5. “My grandma can kick faster than you, let’s go!”<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n
  6. “Bad guys don’t take days off, so neither can you.”<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n
  7. “Get your butt down! You look like Mt. Fuji!” (when doing pushups)<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n
  8. “Whose belt is it? Yours or your mom’s? You are responsible for your belt, not her.” (when kids forget their belt)<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n
  9. “You want to win? You’ve got to work harder and do more than the other guy”<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n
  10. “Repetition is the mother of skill” – Tony Robbins<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n
  11. “Stop blocking with your head! Keep your hands up!’<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n
  12. I can only teach you so much… YOU need to do the work.”<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n
  13. “I told you guys already… listen to me and you’ll live longer.”<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What are some of the\u00a0Sensei-isms\u00a0you use in your dojo?\u00a0Post ’em below.<\/p>\n

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    Love him or hate him, Sensei John Kreese from the “Karate Kid” became famous in pop-culture. On entering the dojo Daniel-san hears Kreese ask his class: “Fear does not exist in this dojo, does it?” Class Responds: “NO, SENSEI!” “Pain does not exist in this dojo, does it?” Class Responds: “NO, SENSEI!” “Defeat does not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2446,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions\/2446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}