Posts Tagged ‘martial arts instructor’
Can you tell a well-schooled sports instructor or a martial arts instructor from an unschooled one? Then watch the video in my latest article and point out the single teaching error that keeps a student practice a simple grappling throw for over ten minutes and still not get it–even though his instructor shows him the […]
Filed under: Sports Technique, Teaching Movement Skills for Sports and Martial Arts | 1 Comment
Tags: martial arts instructor, sports instructor, teaching athletic skills, teaching error
I just received your Stretching Express DVD, and it looks very interesting. However, I have heard for ages that deep squats, where the thigh goes past parallel to the floor, are bad for the joints (in particular the knee joint). Is this a problem or an old wives’ tale, and more recent scientific evidence has […]
Filed under: Flexibility and Stretching | 1 Comment
Tags: deep squat, Flexibility Express, knee joint, martial arts instructor, partial squat, taekwondo, Thomas Kurz
In my previous post I answered a question on the use of resistance bands in improving kicks. However, the video example of a class practicing kicks with those bands showed such poor instruction standards that I gave my opinion about its instructor—quite typical for m.a. So today I have another example of a typical martial […]
Filed under: Sports Injuries, Teaching Movement Skills for Sports and Martial Arts | 6 Comments
Tags: exercise, Hu Zhengsheng, injury, martial arts instructor, Shaolin kung-fu, Thomas Kurz
More on Single Workout
Nearly 2,000 people have read my post on how the composition of every single workout influences the effectiveness of the whole training program. Of all those readers, only one commented on the topic. Others described their experiences with crude simpletons who pass themselves for instructors and lord over the naive and the undiscerning enrolled in […]
Filed under: Exercises and Workouts | 7 Comments
Tags: exercise, martial arts instructor, sports instructor, sports training program, workout plan
