{"id":781,"date":"2012-04-08T08:53:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T15:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karateteaching.com\/?p=781"},"modified":"2012-04-08T09:44:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T16:44:46","slug":"better-karate-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/better-karate-technique\/","title":{"rendered":"What would help them most?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Often new instructors are so eager to teach they can overwhelm their student with too much detail.<\/p>\n<p>They look at a particular <a href=\"https:\/\/www.karatetips.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">karate technique<\/a> and can immediately think of half a dozen things that could be improved like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>bending the front knee in zenkutsu dachi<\/li>\n<li>holding the hikite in its correct position<\/li>\n<li>creating tension in the stance<\/li>\n<li>correct posture<\/li>\n<li>proper body dynamics<\/li>\n<li>the motion of the punch or kick<\/li>\n<li>etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However while some students want to know ALL of the things they need to improve, bombarding them with information is overwhelming.<\/p>\n<p>When this happens little knowledge is retained and little progress is made.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever had an instructor impart a ton of information on you at one time you&#8217;ll know just how difficult it is to make a correction to EVERY SINGLE THING the very next time you attempt it.<\/p>\n<p>And if this sounds like something you do yourself as an instructor think of this analogy:<\/p>\n<p>Imagine trying to count the number of jelly beans in a bowl while the person next to you is calling out random numbers. In addition to that, you&#8217;ve also got to remember how many red jelly beans there are, how many green, and then subtract the number of purple ones from the total count.<\/p>\n<p>Yikes&#8230; kind of overwhelming isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>So if there are 6 things you can see that your student needs to improve, where do you start?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is simple if you remember this one basic question. Just ask yourself this:<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;What is the SINGLE biggest thing I can help them with that will have the GREATEST impact?&#8221;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Never mind about the other 5 things for now &#8211; there will be plenty of time to come back and revisit those. Instead FOCUS on the most important thing and be HAPPY with your student improving that one aspect.<\/p>\n<p>After they&#8217;ve made a marked improvement move to the next thing. It could be a few minutes later, a few lessons later or a few months later.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s ok&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often new instructors are so eager to teach they can overwhelm their student with too much detail. They look at a particular karate technique and can immediately think of half a dozen things that could be improved like: bending the front knee in zenkutsu dachi holding the hikite in its correct position creating tension in [&hellip;]<\/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\/781"}],"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=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}