पीला बेल्ट रोड

जब मैं पहली बार हमारे स्थानीय जूनियर कॉलेज में एक शोटोकन कराटे वर्ग के साथ मार्शल आर्ट शुरू कर दिया है, प्रशिक्षक हर किसी को पढ़ने के लिए एक लेख बाहर हाथ. लेख आँकड़ों के साथ एक अध्ययन कवर. अध्ययन हर के बाहर पाया गया कि 10,000 मार्शल आर्ट के छात्रों के लिये 100 ब्लैक बेल्ट अर्जित करने पर जाना होगा. Most beginning students quit after six months and seventy-five percent quit after a year.

In the almost ten years that I have been teaching, I have found these statistics to be pretty accurate. Due the high attrition rate, I have begun to rethink what a modern curriculum should look like. If most students will be gone in six months and most students come to class to learn self-defense, we should focus the first six months of a student’s training on making them as “street ready” as possible.

In retrospect, I would make the beginner’s program six months long. We would focus on learning the techniques by striking pads, sparring and practicing self-defense. Once the student showed a significant mastery of these techniques, I would teach them the things that make a martial art: forms, traditional drills and traditional sparring.

Most martial arts programs including mine are very concerned about outlining the path for the student who wants to get their black belt. It is important to encourage and guide those rare students who will one day be black belts. तथापि, it is just as important if not more so to have a solid beginning program because most students don’t go past this level.

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