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I was not insinuating anything about the teacher. I was thinking about ways to tackle the lack of determination and dedication that Max has been finding in his students and which is clearly not uncommon. To come in from a different angle. Thats all.
I’m delaying the uppercut to buy more time to argue… I was thinking that if people are kind of add transient committment-phobes, maybe they could cope with really really short courses that are simple and clear in content and intent – like unit standards. After all they are raised on commercial break lengths of concentration. And a lifetime seems like such a long time to practise. Then you string the courses together.
Its interesting. Has anyone ever set this up as a course – properly documented with clearly defined objectives, course plan, content description and pass-test requirements? If you were providing diploma-oriented tuition in nearly any subject you would need a plan like this. Does it help students to have a clear direction and to make a clear time comittment I wonder?
My experience to date has been that you put yourself in the hands of the instructor, do your best, and, well, hope like hell. It not exactly scientific.
Perhaps it could be scientific. Perhaps there should be courses of specified lengths with specific objectives and outcomes. And tests. Just thinking.
Its disappointing when promising, seemingly committed students fail to show and then disappear. You wouldn’t be a good teacher if you didn’t invest something of yourself in the training. At GKR they used to say only 1 in 1000 reach Black, but I would think the real odds were hugely more than that.
Perhaps we should just try to give each “passer-through” a little that they can use and apply. Perhaps a longterm committment to anything these days is increasingly difficult – as lifestyles are hectic and changing and relationships likewise. And perhaps that is total copout crap lol!
Some things worth sticking at.
At the old GKR thing I could have 60 new students in a night if the recruiters had been running hot. How many students stayed long term? Very,very, very few. I was a very good teacher of that stuff but it didn’t really matter. Systema is the same – lots pass through. Its no indictment of the teacher or what is taught – effective or ineffective. (Most beginners can’t tell the difference anyway).
For a rare few the stuff gets under their skin. Bloody special.
Very good to watch that again. There is an almost good-natured intensity – hard and uncompromising on effectiveness yet controlled and relaxed.
There are some interesting Systema angles on conditioning – working through psychological barriers like claustrophobia, shock, panic.
I was having trouble accessing the forum, resolved now. True, backfist could be as bad as the fist but just possibly a better angle to the side of the head hitting with the hammer or back of the hand or down on the nose to avoid teeth. more options than seiken?
The researchers may have made assumptions about what is effective about the fist, assumptions which are not necessarily true in actuality. If damage from impact causes broken bones or cuts that get badly infected, could be more of an evolutionary hazard than a help. The social violence thing makes more sense.
