This is a follow-up to last week’s post: How teaching disabled students can enrich your own martial arts. It looks at some practical ways you can include people with disabilities in martial arts training. Read the full post on Larry McDonnell’s … Continued
Training in the martial arts is like no other journey you will ever undertake. Here’s my take on how it can transform us on every single level. Let me know if I’ve missed anything . . .
I recently attended an excellent workshop called, “How to Coach Disabled People in Sport”, run by Sports Coach UK.
The course placed a heavy emphasis on how being inclusive is good for all of us – and this really got me thinking. It’s wonderful to help other people – but could being inclusive also end up helping us all ourselves too, as students and instructors?
I believe the answer is yes – and here are some reasons why . . .
I recently attended the Sports Coach UK two-hour training session called “How to Coach Disabled People in Sport”, and it was well worth attending. Here are just a few of the interesting points I picked up on this course . … Continued
Martial arts practitioners, and dojos and clubs, range from the intimidating or scary to the welcoming and friendly—and everything in between. As a woman in this male-dominated world, you might imagine I’d be drawn to the less intimidating end of … Continued
Inspirational and interesting stories about women training in martial arts around the world . . .
Most of us are very clear on the ways that martial arts have changed us, and made us better people. But how can we also use martial arts to help others grow? And can the martial arts even be used to transform wider society . . . ?
There’s nothing like martial arts training to show you your garbage. Even in a dojo that cultivates respect and camaraderie, jealousy and pettiness can creep in.
Sometimes the reason is clear. Perhaps a new beginner is learning faster than you ever did. Perhaps you’re the sensei, but one of your senior students is better at engaging with the teenagers. Perhaps you envy the student who has been blessed with a stronger and more flexible body than you.
But sometimes, there is no reason – or at least not one that makes any logical sense […]
With the annual new year membership rush hopefully just about to begin, here are some ideas and advice for marketing your dojo to women as potential martial arts students . . .
Unfortunately, academic writing often turns people right off. Even if it’s original and well-researched, many people just find it dry, wordy, full of jargon – and generally boring and hard to get through. But in the martial arts, we’re perhaps … Continued