The Top 3 Ways To Teach Children Confidence In Martial Arts

If some of you already don't know, I'm currently a Martial arts Instructor that primarily teaches children ranging from 4 -14. I used to teach adults/teens as well but if you've seen my videos (guy with beard) you probably know my resentment towards my previous job and the things that were going on. 

Onward.

Here are the top 3 ways to teach children confidence WITHOUT sacrificing quality in your school. This is crucially important and I know there are instructors out there who actually want to make kids confident without having them test every 2 months.

#1 Stripe promotions DURING class

I've found this to be the most beneficial way to promote students and make them wait to test. They each get a stripe when they do something exceptionally well, like performing pushups with perfect form, or any other goal you want them to be at a particular level.

#2 Make them lead

This is cruicial in martial arts. Let them know that its okay to be confident in front of the class, and you could have one of them call out a number for everyone to do punches kicks ect. you name it. You just gotta make sure you use them as an example for others. Even if its just demonstrating a kick, it makes the kid feel alot better about themselves. 

#3 Don't shun questions and comments. 

I absolutely hate it when an instructor tells a student to not ask a question. Sure, there are sometimes questions that shouldn't be addressed and sometimes a student just wants to be silly. However, I have seen many times a student want to ask a legitimate question and get shunned for asking it. Also, I don't have my students call  me sir.... Say What??? Yes its true. This is because for me personally I had such a weird relationship with my previous instructor just because I felt like I couldn't speak my mind despite knowing him for 15 years, and I think alot of it had to do with the forced respect aspect. I even tell my students, (mostly older ones) you have many options to call me by , "Sir, Master (Last name), coach, Taylor, Mr. (last name) ". Most of the time, the kids pick Master (last name). And its not forced or anything they chose to call me that because they wanted to. And some kids call me coach, which I think is totally fine too. 

Have a great day,

Martial Arts Tutor

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