I woke up tired and sort of grumpy having woken up too early- trying & failing to get a little more sleep till the alarm.
I didn't know what technique to teach or even in which area i should go with - guard pass? sweep? defense? attack? Nothing sounds interesting enough or didn't i do that one last week?
'Interesting enough' - that's another thing i have trouble with. I always feel this pressing need to do something they'll be blown away by--
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--those are great moments when you teach a new thing or help people with something & the light bulb goes off. Weirdly, against my training, my brain tells me to find a new shiny object to make this happen.
But i know for a fact we need lots of repetition. It's how i learned & refined little things here & there each class i saw the technique again. And wowing them just happens as they refine what is to me an old technique.
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I need to continually remember that the old things for me are things they might have a tenuous grasp of. That's the entire point of me being there. Lol. Why can't i remember that?
When i don't have a plan or can't think of one for whatever reason, i always have those negative thoughts that seem to snowball into an avalanche, which just further solidifies the mental block. I should quit. I need to take class, not teach. I'm not cut out for this.
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I'm bad at teaching. They don't like me. They don't want to learn from a woman. They don't like the smaller person's perspective. Maybe none of those is even true, but the longer i try to think of a class plan and come up blank, the more the thoughts invade and poison everything.
Luckily, i remembered my teacher's teacher's seminar i wanted to revisit eventually and decided on spider guard for a theme.
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I can do my favorite sweep, teach them a different than expected way to build the triangle off the failed sweep and then do a funky lasso thing. The only question, then, is how will i fuck this up.
As it happened, it went fine, the uke fell in the expected fashion, and some people seemed to like the variations. Some kinda thought the slow triangle was stupid...
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but for small folks, that's a really helpful thing to learn. Your teacher is small. Deal with it. (Is how i should feel.) The times i end up being really happy with class are there ones I'm doing my favorite or most used techniques. I guess that makes sense. But also i try not to *only* teach those. I want to give them a wider variety than just what i know.
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(I guess i should get guest instructors or make more of an effort to attend more seminars and visit old bjj friends. COVID drastically impaired that networking and feeling connected spirit i used to have. Precautions were warranted; I'm just unsure of how to proceed - I'm way more cautious now. I'll figure it out)
jiujensu🇵🇸
Eunger
ChuckMcA