Kids

[kyudo]

In my dojo I find that motivating kids for kihon and kata can be a bit of a challenge sometimes. This year I came up with a cunning scheme.

The initial idea was to 'play' a piece from a kungfu movie and take it from there. Then I realized I might as well use our own kata to set up a 'play'. And so we did. Mind you, this is more theatre play than proper kata. In 'play' the kata becomes a mess. But I didn't mind, because it was a means to train some 'proper' kata. And it worked because the kids never trained kata and kihon so intensively...

All of us wound up having great fun doing this. I told the kids there was one 'heroe' who gets attacked by 'villains'. They get that. But then offcourse the villains have to be defeated, so they insisted they drop down on the ground. In the final perfomance at the kyu exam, they skipped the part where the villains get up again as 'zombies' to chase the heroe. They came up with that part all by themselves. :-) But I guess at the perfomance they were a bit timid because of the audience.

[Gary]

Nice work kyudo,

We usually find "winner stays on" a good motivator for the kids, particularly when it's against adult dan grades.

They never win of course - but kids love fighting grownups.

Gary

[kyudo]

Nice work kyudo,

Thanks.

We usually find "winner stays on" a good motivator for the kids, particularly when it's against adult dan grades.
They never win of course - but kids love fighting grownups.

I'm not familiar with 'winner stays on'. Could you explain?

[WadoAJ]

Nice work kyudo,

Thanks.

We usually find "winner stays on" a good motivator for the kids, particularly when it's against adult dan grades.
They never win of course - but kids love fighting grownups.

I'm not familiar with 'winner stays on'. Could you explain?

Kyudo,

I think Gary means winnaar blijft staan.

AJ

[kyudo]

I think Gary means winnaar blijft staan.

That doesn't ring any bell either. And Google comes up blank. I just asked my kids and they never heard of it. Maybe we're lagging behind in our neck of the woods?
;-)

[Gary]

"Winner stays on" - is an expression frequently used in pubs, pool halls and snooker clubs.

It refers to the fact that if you win, you can stay on the table to face the next opponent.

If you lose you have to sit down and wait your next turn.

Gary

[WadoAJ]

"Winner stays on" - is an expression frequently used in pubs, pool halls and snooker clubs.

It refers to the fact that if you win, you can stay on the table to face the next opponent.

If you lose you have to sit down and wait your next turn.

Gary

That's what I said, "winnaar blijft staan". ;)

AJ

[WadoAJ]

by the way Gary,

this concept hardly exists in our Dojo. If a kind of "game" comes a long once in a while it is not winner stays on. It is loser does 10 push ups, 15 abs, 20 squads..

AJ

[kyudo]

"Winner stays on" - is an expression frequently used in pubs, pool halls and snooker clubs.
It refers to the fact that if you win, you can stay on the table to face the next opponent.
If you lose you have to sit down and wait your next turn.

Thanks for enlightening me. I wasn't aware that part of the wado education is supposed to take place in the pub. But somehow it doesn't surprise me...
;-)

However, it does beg another question: how do you appoint a 'winner' in the dojo? Do you use competition rules? What is winning, what is loosing?

Ah well, sunday evening. I suppose I better go take another beer. Or perhaps continue my musings in the pub....

[WadoAJ]

"Winner stays on" - is an expression frequently used in pubs, pool halls and snooker clubs.
It refers to the fact that if you win, you can stay on the table to face the next opponent.
If you lose you have to sit down and wait your next turn.

Thanks for enlightening me. I wasn't aware that part of the wado education is supposed to take place in the pub. But somehow it doesn't surprise me...
;-)

However, it does beg another question: how do you appoint a 'winner' in the dojo? Do you use competition rules? What is winning, what is loosing?

Ah well, sunday evening. I suppose I better go take another beer. Or perhaps continue my musings in the pub....

Kyudo, answering the question before Gary does, winning or losing can be determined if you use a method that allows to do so. This could involve methods (or games if you like) that involve:

endurance without fixed time
fixed time collecting points
who is the fastest

etc..

AJ