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Old 10-10-2002, 01:11 PM   #3
Larry Feldman
Dojo: Atlanta School of Aikido
Location: Atlanta, GA
Join Date: Sep 2002
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My teacher would occassionally raise his voice when trying to convey a technique or a point that someone couldn't grasp. I knew he really wasn't 'mad' but more like aggrevated.

The volume never bothered me, and I wondered why he did it......Several years later I am teaching my own class, and here I am raising my voice to my senior student who just can't seem to grasp what I am saying. The idea was so clear in my mind, it was just 'pouring' out of me, yet he couldn't get it. The raised tone was my:

1. frustration

2. effort to 'jar' his attention, a change in style to get him off of 'stuck'.

3. way of dealing with the lack of communication - just like people will sometimes (wrongly) speak louder to someone who doesn't speak english, and can't understand what they are saying - as if they can't hear them.
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