We are halfway through the coaching year, and things are going well. Firstly, in January, I changed the way I teach to give my students the intention training I have been working on for the last few years, plus, after reading The Art of Practice by Laido Dittmar, I changed the format and running order of my lessons.
Since my group class is a recreational martial arts group that focuses on practical self-defence and a lot of my students’ time will be spent training either alone or with their personal training partners or in our training hubs. I have changed the class format to the following: Skills and then homework.
Homework is like training, not compulsory, but it is a great idea to avoid getting your head caved in if someone assaults you.
Since we are dedicated to preserving the martial arts of Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, and European martial arts. I have been teaching separate classes as follows:
We offer tuition in the following arts for self-defence, Kickboxing (Savate with a Basque flavour), MMA, Grappling (Lutte), as well as sword, dagger, and impact weapons such as sticks. We also provide specialised instruction in KORA Pencak Silat.
I have come to realise that each art that I teach is part of one art; each component enhances and informs the other parts. Therefore, over the next six months, I am going to teach the whole and only offer separate private classes if someone would like to study, say our flavour of Savate.
Our flavour of Savate and Lutte is a great example of an art that was dying or dead by the time I stumbled across it in 1986. This was partly because it’s hard to learn, painful in the same way ballet is, and it was driven underground due to the political situation. Some people also just kept it for themselves, not willing to share outside their inner circle.
For many years, I offered a small portion of our Savate as just a boot kicking module; it is only since the post-pandemic that I have offered it as a separate class to my group.
Going forward, in the Saturday 10 am class, I will be teaching my Dagger, Pencak Silat and grappling systems as one whole in a safe progressive manner under the label of KORA Pencak Silat.
Group class will look like this:
0900 KORA Sword and Dagger Class taught by me.
1000 KORA Pencak Silat and grappling taught by me.
1100 Class led by Xin, normally advanced Pencak Silat and some CMA.
I will continue to offer my private lessons to fellow researchers and anyone interested in learning the individual arts. Some people prefer private instruction, and that is cool.
In any of the above interests you, please get in touch.
Richard Killick
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