"Well as I wrote in my post I won't be awarding myself the highest rank, the system is built against rank inflation too so this is not a concern."
GrahamB wrote:Really? I have no idea how that works then. I wouldn't pay to learn from somebody who has no rank in whatever it is I'm learning...
Appledog wrote:Isolating silk reeling applications into qigong or jibengong exercises divorces them from application as the intent of the exercise has changed into creating the underlying body mechanic.
Secondly, teaching the application to beginners at that stage is often a waste of time -- the application does not fufil the criteria of something that can fit into the self defense prorgam at the white belt level.
Edit: So what I mean is, if it's not a basic punch, kick or block it might not do so well as part of the white belt program. And I don't want to make white belt too difficult because part of the early goal is to instill confidence and a sense of achievement, however minor.
I think where we differ here is in how long it is acceptable to wait for the student to get some idea of what is going on. I think six months is too long to wait. I'm still working on it.
Well as I wrote in my post I won't be awarding myself the highest rank...
I've spent the last week developing a number of one, two and three step sparring sets and teaching them to children. Some of these lead directly into push hands. Initial results are very encouraging.
I have also slightly revised the belt requirements to include more attack and defense techniques early on, which fit into the tai chi form later.
I am considering putting in hard requirements in at each level. For example part of the belt test for white, yellow, orange, green, blue, purple, red, brown and black and so on could be doing 100 kettlebell swings at 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 36 respectively. Or for example, we could say one has to do full splits for green belt, full back bridge for blue belt, etc.
Appledog wrote:GrahamB wrote:Really? I have no idea how that works then. I wouldn't pay to learn from somebody who has no rank in whatever it is I'm learning...
Lol, be honest Graham, you wouldn't pay to learn tai chi in the first place.
I would actually love to get someone like you to come in and help test the rating system. I would especially like to feel what the BJJ has done to your taiji. I think it would be interesting. Let me know if you're ever in Taiwan I might even pay you to come down and push for a while. Could be the easiest money you ever made. Beyond that I'm open to any ideas you have about this rating system. How long does it take to pass White Belt and Yellow Belt in BJJ?
Appledog wrote:Given that what you say is true, is there a way to approach these exercises which gives the beginner a platform of self-defense skills that he can use right away?
it would probably make sense to limit children to green or blue belt for now.
There is another idea, which is a striped white belt -- children can have a white belt with a colored stripe (they actually make belts like this) and when they are ready (16? 18?) they can begin the normal belt progression.
This is exactly what I want to do, but also by creating special exercises and new forms which help kids and adults learn the basic concepts step by step.
Most of the problems I have been having so far are from longtime practitioners who either gave it up or are on the verge of giving it up and are against the idea that it can even be done in the first place. It will be really interesting to see the core of my idea go live and see how people react to it. I have a strange feeling that this is going to be just a little bit more popular and useful than people have been giving it credit for. But we shall see.. the goal is to help, remember And in the end no one will force you to do something you don't want to do. The duan-wei system for example.
GrahamB wrote:Yellow belt is a kids belt. Adults start at white, then it goes blue, purple, brown, black (then corals and reds, but that's not for mere mortals)
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