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Old 05-19-2006, 05:58 AM   #5
grondahl
Dojo: Stockholms Aikidoklubb
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Join Date: Apr 2004
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Re: training, instructors and > shodan

I think that the ultimate thing is to both train and teach. Teaching forces you to re-evaluate and structure the material that you have accumulated and questions from students helps you to find new perspectives on keiko.
But itīs only a nice add-on, to progress you have to train, with an instructor that gives you honest feedback.

My experience is that I have different mindsets during teaching or training.
I think of it as "teaching confirms my prejudice about waza, good training forces me correct my flaws and to re-learn things that I thought I knew"
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