I have to go back to basic. Most of time we coaches are so engrossed into coaching advanced techniques to our athletes or students that we do not spend enough time on their basics. We have to work more on their fundamental before progressing to advance techniques.
Fundamental training do not only cover basic techniques but also their basic physical capabilities. We spent too much time of techniques and less time on physical conditioning, hence the athletes lacking the physical attribute in executing the techniques.
So for 2011, I will begin our training with more physical conditioning and basic techniques to build a strong fundamental and foundation for better performance.
I think this is a great idea. I had this idea in my head from somewhere that a black belt ought to be able to do 100 push ups. I went online and found a 100 pushps training program. It's really hard. We do push ups and sit ups and squats and similar exercises in class every day, but we don't do every exercise every day. When I attended a black belt test last month, I was generally disappointed with the quality of the push ups performed by the candidates, even some of the 2nd dan and 3rd dan candidates did wimpy little one inch push ups. Before every belt test, students have to earn a green stripe, a blue stripe, a red stripe and seven black stripes. The stripes are stickers that the instructor wraps around the tips of the belt. The green stripe indicates that the students has learned the new form. The red stripe indicates that the student is doing well in school. The blue stripe indicates that the student has read 5 books since last belt test and each black stripes indicate that the student has behaved well at home for a week. I think we ought to have a yellow stripe. It should indicate that the student has met some conditioning standard. Maybe they performed a requisite number of push ups, sit ups or squats. Maybe they ran a requisite distance or for a requisite time frame. I think making it a formal part of the curriculum like this would help the teachers (and students) focus better on this aspect of every class.
ReplyDeleteAgain, the physical conditioning is not just on the ability to perform the certain amount of push up, sit-up etc, but the physical conditioning that enable you to perform your technique with the require strength, power and speed. It is meaningless if one can do 100 good push up but is not able to punch properly.
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