You don’t need to be an instructor or a master to be competent in a situation.
Agreed. But, if you were, your chances of survival increase a few notches.
(And by me saying “master” and “instructor” I mean someone who has all the “knowledge” of the system and investigates it for themselves. I’ve seen “instructors” who’ve been worse than me or had less training than me teaching me).
And I may be a “purist” in some sense of the word, but I don’t think it’s effective to dibble dabble in a little of everything. You have to have a solid base in one art/system/way of though before mixing it up with something else.
I don’t see how this topic follows on from what you mentioned in your first post.
You said you didn’t like WC training and wanted everyone to make it more fun to get more students.
Fine motor skills aren’t taught in WC first. That would be the opposite of WC philosophy. Simple things like punching and stepping are taught first. Can’t get much grosser than that.
I don’t know what WC you’ve seen but you don’t seem to know much about the curriculum of WC.
Some of you still believe that you need to be instructor or master level to be competent in a self protection situation.
This is the old mentality.
How would you know what I believe? I could assume, with the same level of validity, that you believe the moon is made of green cheese.
Both my instructors told me that you should have a usable level of skill in 9-12 months of regular training. One told me that in 1977.
This is when fine motor skills (that takes forever) instead of gross motor skills is taught first. Gross motor skills is what everyone (even instructors & masters) use 100% of the times in a self defence situation.
This is very a very wrong and selfish way to be taught. Unless you are training for art reasons only.
I would agree, if this happened, though I’ve never come across this in any academy I’ve trained in.
Also dont forget that motion beggets motion.
This means that it is easier to change a course of a motion than to inniciate it.
So being mobile is not burning energy, being mobile is being ellusive and being prepared.
I don’t think you’re saying this, but I think there’s way too much emphasis in training from a static position in all of WC. This is hardly revelatory, Matt Thornton’s and others have been talking about “aliveness” for a decade or more.
If there are faults in the pedagogy they are with the individual instructors, not the system.
