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Children from 5 to 12 years old is very naughty, so they can not accept my teaching methods, so hard & so punish? So they can not learn everything... but their parents always like result...
How can I teach them??? Help???

2006-11-28 17:23:34 · 5 answers · asked by LACâ?¢ 1 in Sports Martial Arts

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Might I suggest the book "Martial Arts: Teacher on Teaching" I have been teaching kids for about 4 years.

It can be a challenge. Some need routine, others need variety. Learning how to mix the two is the trick.

2006-12-02 15:14:21 · answer #1 · answered by Aggie80 5 · 0 0

Yeah, you have to realize that the attention span for a child that age is about a half hour TOPS. Anything more than that and you really need to have everything happening FAST or they get bored and start trouble.
Also, with kids this age, you cannot be a drill instructor and have them respond to it. It does have to be FUN or that attention span will shorten drastically. Have the kids do fun, fast activities when they start getting into the boredom mode. We like to do a sparring class where the kids only stay in the ring for a single point...you get hit, you sit down. Occaisionally, we will line everyone up in a circle and have a single student in the middle. Everyone in the circle gets a number and when the instructor calls the number, they go into the ring as fast as possible and get to make a single attack on the guy in the center. The guy in the center gets to block/parry and counter. Then attacker then goes back to the circle and another number is called. SOmetimes 2 numbers are called or a single number followed VERY shortly by a second. In this way, the kids not only get training in attacking and defending, but they are also kept VERY busy. After a time, another student goes into the "Ring of Death"...
Basically, you just have to remember what it was like being a 12 year old or younger. If everything that is happening is seen as WORK, then boredom sets in and not much is gonna get learned. Train them well, absolutely. Train them hard, definately. But also make it fun.
Hope this helps...
Sensei Cox

2006-11-28 22:19:51 · answer #2 · answered by hitman142002 3 · 0 0

Children are always a challenge , keep the training fun . You can't expect them to be interested if you teach them the same thing over and over . I suggest doing something different every day aside from the basics . Make some things into games also .
like kicking contest : " who can kick the most times in one minute"
Practice their blocks by using blocking patterns , then have them use the blocking patterns against you , usually with a middle punch at the end . ( If you act like they hurt you a little it makes it fun for them)
I hope this helped!!!

2006-11-29 01:34:07 · answer #3 · answered by Ray H 7 · 0 0

are they being challenged? sounds like they may be being forgotten and they are entertaining themselves. have an instructor assigned to them and have them engaged in activity all the time. forget the esoteric nature of martial arts and inner workings, just focus on the physical with the younger ones. too much talk and you will lose them. the young brain needs constant stimulation. in a classroom you have to rotate themes every 45 minutes or so as they start to misbehave as they get bored with the activity, the same can be said for martial arts. keep the activities rotating and fresh. doing one thing all night WILL have them tune out.

more action is needed...

and you should be more in control of the scene. dont ask, tell!

perhaps you can shorten the classes by 30 minutes for the young ones.

2006-11-28 19:46:21 · answer #4 · answered by SAINT G 5 · 0 0

.....are u a black belt in the style u are teaching them? do u even know what ur teaching them..id think if u did ud know what t do....if its ur dojo....then tell them to behave..if they dont..kick them out of ur class......rememebr..its YOUR class......

2006-11-29 06:58:30 · answer #5 · answered by blackflamedpheonix 2 · 0 1

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