As anyone goes through their martial arts career you will no doubt get either bad advice or bad training methods taught to you from some instructors. It would be great to say that every teacher knows what they're talking about. Well, unfortunately this is not the case.

There are as many training methods and ways to teach as there are teachers and sorting out the rubbish from the gold is no easy task especially when new students are involved.
Most martial arts schools usually give a free lesson to try their school out but sometimes you need more than just one lesson the experience good and the bad instructors teach school.

I think just about all martial art school work on a hierarchy system, that is to say that rank is the most important thing in most organisations. I don't think this is a bad thing, however, just because a teacher has high belt grading doesn't make them a great teacher. Certainly I high belt grade does represent more knowledge and a perceived level of skill.

Over the years in martial arts. I have been taught by many different teachers and some of the best haven't been highly ranked black belt.

An example of something I don't agree with is this, recently I was told by a very senior teacher that extreme stretching and flexibility was a bad thing because very flexible martial artist a slow, and this is what gave me the idea for this tip.

As always I thrive on your feedback and suggestions if you want to get hold of me sending an e-mail, scott@pollets.com.au, FB, Shihan Scott Boyd