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JWT
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Training Medley Video

I recently put together a short video to try and give an 'as is' picture of what my fellow instructors and I are getting up to in our regular classes. We've not shot the footage specially for it, so it's a collection of what I have to hand. I hope you like it. Feedback as to whether it looks too easy, too violent, too child-centric, too male centric, too messy etc welcome!

All the best

John

Marc
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This looks like an amazing training environment to me. I'd love to come and train with you.

In your video you show several different aspects of training. Do the percentages of footage time correspond to the distribution of training time of these different aspects?

Take care

Marc  

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Hi Marc  

Thanks for your positive feedback.   

I wasn't deliberately weighting the footage, just trying to show a bit of most things and make sure that both the Shotokan and the DART were included, the older members (in their 60s) as well as the 11 year olds, the ladies as well as the men.  

In terms of overall weighting in class, the top to toe body armour events are generally done on separate days. I do bring that full kit into class maybe twice a year, the shin guards and head guards every month (depending on how many students I have in a syllabus area as we use those for defence against kicks and stamps from one or more people when on the ground), and I'll use chest guards if I want to give the students freedom to go heavier on the body if they spot an available target in padwork drills. The full kit is more often used on separate training days where every person training is armoured, but that training is actually more mentally than physically exhausting and it is a syllabus requirement for all the brown belt and black belt gradings.  

Padwork of some kind, whether simply technical for power delivery or applied (evading hits and striking or improving reacting to stimuli to preempt) is present in almost every class and can vary from 10 - 80% of a class. A number of the padwork exercises in this video came from an 18 minute non stop pad relay with students moving between holding and striking in different stations continuously without a break - I'm wise to the belt tying rest trick so if a belt works loose mid exercise it gets abandoned until the end of the exercise.  

Solo kata practise is present in most classes although sometimes I run out of time to fit it in because my focus is elsewhere. When we do do it it can be anywhere from 1 to 25% of a class. While I prefer to include it, the paired training all reflects the kata so it is never really absent.  

The paired training kumite/oyo drills make up anything from 50-90% of a class. Depending on grade they might be exclusively statis - one attack only - or involve the stringing together of static drills into dynamic training or unpredictable alive training. In terms of what you're seeing on the video - different level students will concentrate on different areas. For example ground work is the staple of my 6th kyu syllabus in DART and my 3rd Kyu syllabus in Shotokan.  

All the best  

John Titchen

Marc
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Hi John,

thanks for your detailed reply.

Marc