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I have been given a HUGE compliment....
A friend of mine trains in a martial arts school in Albany, NY, and came down to Nashville for a pressure-point seminar back in November. The Albany school doesn't do anything like that, and apparently the whole school has been abuzz with the information that was brought back, and wanted a seminar of their own. Since their head instructor wants to inject some new energy into the school (no pun intended ::S::), he agreed.
The only catch is, they're a small school, and the fellow who conducted our seminar typically gets several thousand dollars, which is WAY out of their price range.
So they asked me.
Wow!
Okay, I've taught plenty of classes before. I've conducted the entire run of women's self-defense classes. For all intents and purposes, I've run the school for weeks at a time. I'm perfectly comfortable teaching, and I think I do a good job of it.
But this is new territory. ::S::
But I wrote up my proposal for a seminar and emailed it to the school's head instructor, so now we get to my least favorite part -- waiting!
Even if they don't accept my proposal, it's one HELL of a compliment for them to ask me!
A friend of mine trains in a martial arts school in Albany, NY, and came down to Nashville for a pressure-point seminar back in November. The Albany school doesn't do anything like that, and apparently the whole school has been abuzz with the information that was brought back, and wanted a seminar of their own. Since their head instructor wants to inject some new energy into the school (no pun intended ::S::), he agreed.
The only catch is, they're a small school, and the fellow who conducted our seminar typically gets several thousand dollars, which is WAY out of their price range.
So they asked me.
Wow!
Okay, I've taught plenty of classes before. I've conducted the entire run of women's self-defense classes. For all intents and purposes, I've run the school for weeks at a time. I'm perfectly comfortable teaching, and I think I do a good job of it.
But this is new territory. ::S::
But I wrote up my proposal for a seminar and emailed it to the school's head instructor, so now we get to my least favorite part -- waiting!
Even if they don't accept my proposal, it's one HELL of a compliment for them to ask me!
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(and yes, I'm tempted to offer validation of how good you are at teaching, but it's warring with a temptation to tease, and well...::wg::)
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::tries to remember when you've seen me in "teaching mode"::
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We use the same pressure points as the acupuncturists -- 361 "traditional" points, divided into 14 "sets" or meridians, plus several "extra" points that the oriental doctors added after the 361 were formalized. A large portion of our training is devoted to learning the properties and locations of the meridians and their respective points, and how to make use of them, and how to know what order to put them in to achieve a desired effect. Fortunately, once you learn how to "read" the information in the forms (katas, shings, poomses, whatever term you use ::S::), so much of the information is "written" there that it makes it MUCH easier to remember where/how/what order to work the pressure points.
Combat acupuncture... I'll have to remember to tell Sensei that one - he'll like it, too!