Shaping Training
What I mean in this title is the climax of each training. And the climax refers to that of tension and hardness, or psychological strain in training. For an instance; you will begin the training with warming up usually, which is not so hard. And then you will continue the next step that is little more hard, and then more next again. This increasement will go to a climax of a training, and students will feel hardness as time passes. And then after the climax the hardness will decrease and the whole training will finish by a warming up. This whole flow will keep some rhythmical change in training. Do you like movie? I¡¯d like to make an analogy to film. I believe, for better motivation, the instructor should be like the director of a movie. If a movie were full of only information, it could not be an interesting one. You as a director should shape the overall frame of information or story, or the presentations of scenes. Like this, your training should be a movie. It must not be just full of information. You should shape its overall flow of each step. Just as the director should imagine what the audience will feel in each part of the movie so you should guess and follow up what your students feel in each step of training. Some basic techniques of shaping training. You can input two climaxes in your training or will lead it with only one climax. In most cases three climaxes will scatter impression of students. If you train students in 1 hour it would be hard to input two climaxes with harmony. In the case of two hour lasting training, two climaxes will be better and easier. If
you think you¡¯ve got a good format of one or two climaxes of training you can modify
it little by little in each training as you feel at that time. In that case
you can enjoy the training, not alone but with your students. But for that,
you must first the basic pattern of The next point: you should shape not only one-day training but also several-dau training. For an instance, if you teach 5 days in a week(from Monday to Friday), you should not keep very hard training every day evenly. The entire pattern, I recommand, should follow that of the first graph. So you will try a little hard training on Monday, and increase it on Tuesday. On Wednesday you can reduce it. Instead you can explain something in detail with more precise correction of students' faults.(For that you need full or sufficient knowledge of Taekwondo) And on Thursday you should increase the density of training and the hardest day would be Friday. They will take a rest on Saturday and Sunday. After holidays some students can have some difficulty to rebegin the hard training on Monday. It is another reason you'd better begin week training with somewhat loose training on Monday. In each case you have to pay attention to what students feel each time each moment. You should be able to feel what your opponent feel in each moment to be a winner in Kyorugi. Likewise, You should be able to feel what they feel to be a good instructor. They belong to one way. |