Teaching today

I'm off to teach the Saturday Adult Kempo class.

A good teacher

I was at the dojo tonight working on the computer system and got to watch Dan teach for a while. Dan is a really good teacher. As an instructor myself, I like to watch other instructors at work. There is always something to learn. Dan has been teaching for a long time, and I like his style of teaching. He teaches principles as well as good technique.

Kempo FAQ

There is a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list for the Kempo/Kempo Martial Arts.

More book recommendations

Animal styles in Shaolin Gung Fu

Animal styles in Shaolin Gung Fu

School in Milbury closed.

The Villari Shaolin Kempo school in Milbury recently closed.

The students should do what some of the black belts did, and go to MetroWest Martial Arts in Westborough.

Teaching Tonight

I'll be teaching the adult Kempo class tonight.

Testing yesterday

We conducted a kids test yesterday. Mostly higher ranks. They looked good and worked hard.

Books and Videos

News...

A bit late, but I made 4th Dan back in March.

A week ago Saturday, MetroWest Martial Arts and Wellness promoted 4 people to first degree black belt.

Interesting Marketing

I was looking at Century Martial Arts holiday catalog, and there is a lot more marketing directed toward woman and young girls.
Complete to pink sparring gear.

Shaolin Kempo at West Point

http://www.usma.edu/publicaffairs/PV/010511/MartialArts.htm

The caption to one photo reads:

Cadet 2nd Class Jackie Lawson of the Army martial arts demonstration team displays the Shaolin Kempo form Young Forest.

A martial arts history note

Just a reminder to those interested in such things, the modern "Shaolin Temple" in China was rebuilt, and is owned and operated by the Communist Chinese government. The buildings were in ruins just a couple of decades ago.

It is a good way for the Communist Chinese government to gather in hard western currency by the barrel full from tourists.

Teaching Flashback...

At the old school I used to teach at, I had a Monday night class that was, with the exception of one kid in high school, all female.
The typical class had 4 to 6 women, with only one being a teenager. The rest were women in their 20's to 40's.

That was an interesting class for me to teach, because I couldn't teach them to do techniques the way I did them.
I decended from a long line of WASP farmers and weigh about 50 pounds more than I look, a lot of that being in upper body strength.
Well, Kempo is a system that adapts to the student, not the other way around and I was good training me to live that as a teacher.

Now I'm at a new school with my old instructor, and in my class tonight was four women. The youngest was 20 and the oldest a few years younger than I am. For two of them, it was their second class.

While it's cool to teach black belts and brown belts, it's good to teach beginners too. I reminds you were we all started from and keeps you humble.