125 Dynamite Drills ebook by Jason Stanley
Are you constantly trying to think of new things to do in your classes? Is boredom setting in because you can't think of new ways to teach the same things?
You know as well as I that when that happens you resort to doing the same old things again and again...like walking up and down the floor punching the air, or doing group kata with half the class falling asleep as you wait for the least skilled student to catch up&
These kinds of drills are okay in moderation for adults, but horrible for kids due to their shorter attention span. And if you're like most martial arts instructors you've probably just followed a traditional class plan.
- Do a 20 minute warm up
- Do 25 minutes of basics
- Do some kata
- Maybe do some sparring if time permits&
- Boring& zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Years ago I used to follow this method and wondered why people had a lack of interest in class.
It was plainly obvious to my students but not to me. I just modeled what my first instructor taught because I assumed he was right. Fact is that these types of exercises and class plans aren't stimulating and don't raise the energy of your class...
Simple as that...
Doing the same old stuff AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN does little to keep people motivated and pretty soon people leave because of BOREDOM
You and I have both experienced this frustration - you know, when you put so much effort and energy into teaching students and just when you least expect it... they quit.
In the last 5 years I've taught 5000+ karate classes to my 130+ students, and I realized that boredom is the #1 killer of student retention. I was unaware of this when I first started teaching part time back in 1993. But when I opened my own own school here in California in 2003, teaching up to 30 classes per week, I started running out things to do&
My students were getting sooo bored and I was becoming extremely frustrated doing the same old stuff over and over. So many times I became discouraged and I just wanted to throw in the towel... but luckily for me I didn't.
I knew there had to be a way to have a successful school over the long term. I knew that the CAUSE of students becoming bored was a directly linked to what and how I was teaching - it was my failure, not theirs.
The solution?
I brainstormed and wrote down, and categorized every single useful drill that Id done since starting karate in 1988. Some of the drills I uncovered during my quest came from:
- my time as a national/international competitor - since 1992 to now...
- drills and exercises I've learned from dozens of schools in 7 different countries...
- exercises and drills that my list of 10,467 KarateTips members have shared with me since 2002
- creative ideas that I've had to come up with from 16 years of teaching to keep my 130 students motivated...
In fact I spent 4 months compiling all this information. It was a huge task, but now I have a printed manual of drills and exercises I can take to class. In it there are 125 different ways to disguise repetitions, and keep each class fresh and exciting for my students.
Now, boredom has virtually been eliminated and students are excited to come to class, eagerly waiting for what theyre going to do next!
When teaching adults I can ramp up the intensity of the drills, and for kids I can tone it down. Plus now since I have these drills at my fingertips, Im more enthused about teaching just like when I first started. I don't have to strain the brain trying to think about what we haven't done in a while or how to do a particular drill. It's all written down for easy reference.
And there's no reason why you can't have the same... You can kiss goodbye to doing the same old boring exercises again and again.
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