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Old 02-13-2015, 04:30 AM   #4
Tim Ruijs
 
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Re: Teaching as a separate skill.

Teaching requires different skillset than executing what is taught.
Not every football/soccer coach can actually play.
Teaching requires thorough knowledge of the subject at hand and requires the skills to bring your knowledge (and experience) across. You need to be sensitive to the audience, how to 'reach' them.
You must be able to separate specific aspects of the subject and deliver them to you audience.

In Aikido you work with a partner. Depending on the experience (skillevel) he helps you or you help him, the basic teacher/student relation. So I think it is fair to say that an Aikido teacher has developed (polished?) his teaching skill over years simply by studying Aikido. But that does not for a good teacher. That is really another level.

In a real fight:
* If you make a bad decision, you die.
* If you don't decide anything, you die.
Aikido teaches you how to decide.
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