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Teaching Child Students in 2020
If you’re teaching the type of curriculum that’s much more applicable on the street, how do you translate that to the much younger audience? Well, that is a very awkward question. Where my Dayton/Centerville, Ohio school is located, it is middle class and upper-middle class, and nobody gets in fights! Kids in general don’t get into fights. Martial arts are all abstract to them, and yet it’s a very pragmatic self-defense system. How do we approach youth? Sometimes my wife will comment, “Oh gosh, I wish we were teaching Tang Soo Do, it would be easier! ‘This is upper-block, this is the punch.’” But what we have done is created