I experienced a real light bulb moment on a seminar.

The seminar was being taken by a maverick guy.

He was very direct in his ideas and concepts and pulled no “punches”.

He was very critical of martial arts systems that spent too much time on technique and drills.

Basically saying most martial artists don’t actually train to make it work in a REAL game.

There was quite a bit of science involved that gave me instant clarity in the sometimes mess of teaching martial arts.

This enables me to not only keep retention high but better prepare my students for making all their training work in the real world situations.

The coaching model is the 3 I’s…

• Introduction – you introduce the technique or skill.

• Isolation – you quickly move to isolate the skill…training with motion, distance and timing.

• Integration -  then you slowly begin integrating several skills into the training to commit to the sub conscious.

An example of this:

You teach a student a jab or front punch.

You introduce the skill for 2 minutes and cover the basic fundamentals and have the students practice this.

You then move quickly to Isolation Phase where you work with a partner..lets say on a focus pad where you can train the distance, timing and motion elements.

The concept being a tennis player doesn’t stand in front of a mirror swinging his racket….he quickly starts hitting balls.

Learning to move and time the technique and quickly develop the skills to work in the real game.

In the integration phase we can start introducing parrying, head movement and counters to slowly build on the skills students are learning.

This little gem of a coaching system guided me to ensure everything being trained was trained to make it work “the truth” my students deserved this and I wanted to give them the best experience and skills.

It works and I created my whole Curriculum Pro around this coaching model along with some others.

I was smart enough to balance Retention and martial skills advancement into Curriculum Pro which often many don’t….its either too soft and ineffective or too aggressive and hardcore – not many students!

You can learn more great coaching concepts and enhance your curriculum with Curriculum Pro.