Karate Camp
Jun. 22nd, 2006 06:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
revenaKarate Camp ends tomorrow. Thank goodness.
Things I have learned from this year’s camp:
1. My “don’t mess with me” voice is probably my best teaching tool. (I am not actually being facetious, here – I can get the kids to stop screwing around and do what they’re supposed to with a handful of loud, forceful words, when all of the well-considered, calmly delivered rhetoric that Master Hwang and Sam and I can come up with between the three of us is doing nada)
2. A group of ten children (aged seven to fourteen) can come up with ways of doing techniques incorrectly that will be completely new to an instructor with over ten years of teaching experience.
3. Racquetball court floors are hell on your feet. Racquetball courts that have been retrofitted into nice, dark, cozy rooms for teaching yoga classes in are hell on your sanity, if you’re trying to teach martial arts for three hours.
4. A solid minute and a half of conversation with another adult has a greater restorative effect than the longest private sojourn at the water fountain, when the exhaustive force is young children.
Things I have learned from this year’s camp:
1. My “don’t mess with me” voice is probably my best teaching tool. (I am not actually being facetious, here – I can get the kids to stop screwing around and do what they’re supposed to with a handful of loud, forceful words, when all of the well-considered, calmly delivered rhetoric that Master Hwang and Sam and I can come up with between the three of us is doing nada)
2. A group of ten children (aged seven to fourteen) can come up with ways of doing techniques incorrectly that will be completely new to an instructor with over ten years of teaching experience.
3. Racquetball court floors are hell on your feet. Racquetball courts that have been retrofitted into nice, dark, cozy rooms for teaching yoga classes in are hell on your sanity, if you’re trying to teach martial arts for three hours.
4. A solid minute and a half of conversation with another adult has a greater restorative effect than the longest private sojourn at the water fountain, when the exhaustive force is young children.
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Date: 2006-06-23 07:58 am (UTC)That's hilarious, yet disturbing. Makes me reconsider the idea of a group consciousness. It's like they already know what mistakes you're prepared for.
No wonder evil kids are a horror film standby. *g*
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Date: 2006-06-24 12:35 am (UTC)