Ryukenkan Dojo - Tauranga New Zealand
"Karate in Paradise" - It's a rough task, but someone has to do it!
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Ryukenkan Dojo - Tauranga New Zealand "Karate in Paradise" - It's a rough task, but someone has to do it!
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Guiding Principle 1 "When asking to be taught, be submissive and free from prejudice. Accept the teachings as shown. In this way, you will not establish your own peculiarities or bad habits." The first thing to understand about the Guiding Principles is that they have been translated from the Japanese language. Although we have a language capable of explaining, in detail, virtually anything we encounter, the English language does has some difficulty translating parts of the Japanese language. Hence, some of the words used may not accurately reflect the Japanese meaning or intention. The first Guiding Principle deals with the correct attitude to enter class. Not just a Karate class either - this principle applies to any part of life where you are learning from another. Learning is a three stage process. First we must learn how to do the task at hand. Secondly, we must come to understand why it is done this way before finally, we can apply the skill in a different environment .Learn, Understand, Adapt - it's that simple. We have a principle in Kempo which says "Study a technique or principle until you own it". This means that to simply be able to perform a skill is not enough. You must study it until you understand it in its entirety, then be able to adapt it to work in different situations. "When asking to be taught, be submissive and free from prejudice. Accept the teachings as shown." This does not mean that we expect people to become mindless drones who follow instructions without question. We encourage people to ask questions freely and to continue to ask until they understand the concepts involved (refer to Guiding Principle 10). What we ask is that when learning Ryukyu Kempo, a student open their mind to the way things are taught in our classes. Our lessons are structured in a deliberate sequence and must be learnt one after the other to gain a full understanding of the art we teach. When students come to our classes with previous experience in Martial Arts, they often are taught things that seem similar to what they have learnt before. This can be frustrating as it feels as if you're not developing. If we jump past techniques and information to move to "more interesting stuff" important principles and concepts may be missed which will cause difficulties as the student progresses. "In this way, you will not establish your own peculiarities or bad habits." As a world-wide organisation, this is of utmost importance. When a student from new Zealand travels and trains in other Alliance Dojo around the world, the quality of the New Zealand Instructors is on display, therefore we must ensure that all of our representatives have the same skills and understand the same concepts as other their counterparts around the world. If we develop our own methods of "getting things done" we will be unable to work efficiently with others, and this will in turn hinder our development as Instructors and stall our progress in Ryukyu Kempo.
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