A black belt does not mean that the student is an instructor or even has the remotest idea of how to organise material, teach, assess students and run a school.
Most martial arts want their instructors to possess at least three black belts and over a decade of experience before they start teaching.
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Showing posts with label instructor. Show all posts
Wednesday
Friday
Tai chi exercise teacher
Not every tai chi instructor wants to learn taijiquan. Some people just have an
interest in exercise.
This is fine, providing they take their training seriously.
Expect a tai chi exercise teacher to have:
• Insurance
• At least 10 years experience behind them
• A detailed understanding of tai chi philosophy and the tai chi classics
• Extensive teacher training with a qualified (and skilled) taijiquan instructor
• Instructor affiliation with The Tai Chi Union for Great Britain or equivalent body
• In-depth knowledge of whole-body strength, biomechanics and healthy body use
This is fine, providing they take their training seriously.
Expect a tai chi exercise teacher to have:
• Insurance
• At least 10 years experience behind them
• A detailed understanding of tai chi philosophy and the tai chi classics
• Extensive teacher training with a qualified (and skilled) taijiquan instructor
• Instructor affiliation with The Tai Chi Union for Great Britain or equivalent body
• In-depth knowledge of whole-body strength, biomechanics and healthy body use
Sunday
What does your school offer?
Our school offers:
- Lineage
- this is about who taught who
- your instructor's knowledge can be traced through generations of teachers, right back to the founder
- An experienced instructor
- Master Waller trained with Peter Southwood for 20 years
- he has been teaching tai chi since 1995
- he has been training martial arts since 1975
- A qualified instructor
- Master Waller holds a post-graduate certificate of education
- he is registered with The Tai Chi Union for Great Britain
- he taught under Peter Southwood's close guidance and supervision for several years
- A fully-differentiated syllabus
- a syllabus offers an incremental learning program that enables all students to become skilled at tai chi
- the layers and levels of the syllabus are interlocking and interconnected
- there is an ongoing accumulation of both knowledge and skill
- Assessment
- regular, consistent, thorough assessment is essential to ensure quality and understanding
- progress can be proven
- Grading
- this ensures that all students study material appropriate to their own ability level
Monday
Sifu Waller's home training
This has been Sifu Waller's daily
routine since 1992:
-
Strength-building
- balls & grips
- self-massage (100+ exercises)
- 3 circle qigong (15 minutes)
- ba duan jin (8 exercises)
- reeling silk (6 exercises)
- 16 elbows
- moving qigong (15 exercises)
- leg stretches: day 1 or 2
-
Drills
- small san sau
- silk arms
- 5 pre-emptive measures
- pushing peng/double pushing hands/da lu/penetrating defences/reflex drills
- 3-tier wallbag
-
Weapons
- knife drills
- small stick drills
- stick drills (Monday - Saturday)
- broadsword drills (Sunday)
- sabre form (regular & mirrored)
- 2 person cane form/drill (regular & mirrored)
- staff form (regular & mirrored)
- walking stick form (regular & mirrored)
- straight sword form (regular & mirrored)
-
Hard qigong
- full circle qigong (2 postures)/qigong development (2 postures)/form posture qigong (2 postures)/high circle qigong/qigong on one leg
-
Cool down
- stretches & joint work (10 exercises)/psoas exercises (5 exercises)
-
Meditation
- constructive rest position
- guided relaxation -
Reading/study
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Tuesday
Sifu Waller's home training
This has been Sifu Waller's daily
routine since 1992:
-
Strength-building
- balls & grips
- self-massage (100+ exercises)
- 3 circle qigong (15 minutes)
- ba duan jin (8 exercises)
- reeling silk (6 exercises)
- 16 elbows
- moving qigong (15 exercises)
- leg stretches: day 1 or 2
-
Drills
- small san sau
- silk arms
- 5 pre-emptive measures
- pushing peng/double pushing hands/da lu/penetrating defences/reflex drills
- 3-tier wallbag
-
Weapons
- knife drills
- small stick drills
- stick drills (Monday - Saturday)
- broadsword drills (Sunday)
- sabre form (regular & mirrored)
- 2 person cane form/drill (regular & mirrored)
- staff form (regular & mirrored)
- walking stick form (regular & mirrored)
- straight sword form (regular & mirrored)
-
Hard qigong
- full circle qigong (2 postures)/qigong development (2 postures)/form posture qigong (2 postures)/high circle qigong/qigong on one leg
-
Cool down
- stretches & joint work (10 exercises)/psoas exercises (5 exercises)
-
Meditation
- constructive rest position
- guided relaxation -
Reading/study
Sifu Waller's home training
This has been Sifu Waller's daily
routine since 1992:
-
Strength-building
- balls & grips
- self-massage (100+ exercises)
- 3 circle qigong (15 minutes)
- ba duan jin (8 exercises)
- reeling silk (6 exercises)
- 16 elbows
- moving qigong (15 exercises)
- leg stretches: day 1 or 2
-
Drills
- small san sau
- silk arms
- 5 pre-emptive measures
- pushing peng/double pushing hands/da lu/penetrating defences/reflex drills
- 3-tier wallbag
-
Weapons
- knife drills
- small stick drills
- stick drills (Monday - Saturday)
- broadsword drills (Sunday)
- sabre form (regular & mirrored)
- 2 person cane form/drill (regular & mirrored)
- staff form (regular & mirrored)
- walking stick form (regular & mirrored)
- straight sword form (regular & mirrored)
-
Hard qigong
- full circle qigong (2 postures)/qigong development (2 postures)/form posture qigong (2 postures)/high circle qigong/qigong on one leg
-
Cool down
- stretches & joint work (10 exercises)/psoas exercises (5 exercises)
-
Meditation
- constructive rest position
- guided relaxation -
Reading/study
Friday
How an instructor should train
Sifu Waller's home training routine may seem like quite a lot of training.
However, consider it in terms of time:
Regular students should not be training like this.
However, consider it in terms of time:
-
1-2 hours of strength-building & qigong
-
30 minutes of baguazhang
-
15 minutes of drills
-
30 minutes of weapons
-
30 minutes of tai chi empty hand form
-
20 minutes of meditation
-
30 minutes of study
Regular students should not be training like this.
Tuesday
Sifu Waller's home training
This has been Sifu Waller's daily
routine since 1992:
-
Strength-building
- balls & grips
- self-massage (100+ exercises)
- 3 circle qigong (15 minutes)
- ba duan jin (8 exercises)
- reeling silk (6 exercises)
- 16 elbows
- moving qigong (15 exercises)
- leg stretches: day 1 or 2
-
Drills
- small san sau
- silk arms
- 5 pre-emptive measures
- pushing peng/double pushing hands/da lu/penetrating defences/reflex drills
- 3-tier wallbag
-
Weapons
- knife drills
- small stick drills
- stick drills (Monday - Saturday)
- broadsword drills (Sunday)
- sabre form (regular & mirrored)
- 2 person cane form/drill (regular & mirrored)
- staff form (regular & mirrored)
- walking stick form (regular & mirrored)
- straight sword form (regular & mirrored)
-
Hard qigong
- full circle qigong (2 postures)/qigong development (2 postures)/form posture qigong (2 postures)/high circle qigong/qigong on one leg
-
Cool down
- stretches & joint work (10 exercises)/psoas exercises (5 exercises)
-
Meditation
- constructive rest position
- guided relaxation -
Reading/study
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