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I have been teaching martial arts on weekends for quite awhile. It had really been a nice experience, though I am not talking about hardcore tournaments fighting or competition poomsae or anything similar. It is just purely like a hobby, like a job, like an activity I spent my weekend, meeting different people at different times, or something that prevents my body from going into “crouch potato mode”

I must admit I love kids. We are talking alot of kids, age at 3..4.. till 12. Many 4 year old tots running around the dojang, where they come once a week to play and learn new things. It’s fun because kids are the purest and honest at heart. They say what they think and feel. No bad intents, no evil thoughts, and they just live in a world of dreams and fantasies…

Well of course this comes at a price (I”ll talk more about the kids experience some time later), with me becoming very tired after teaching. No matter how tired I am, when I see these kids, it really really brightens up my day. If not for taking the warming up session (since I am the most junior), I might not have been so tired.

It could have been better if I can teach 2 hours by 2 hours with a small break in between, rather than what I am doing now at a 3 hours block. Time flies while teaching, so it is really doing something you like that’s more important.

Teaching Martial Arts had been one of the stuff I do last time. Before I went to National Service, I taught up to 5 lessons a week. I do teaching in some classes, some learning, and some training.

There was a period where I had intensely taught Martial Arts, so much that I was given the chance to “own” a small class. I was the main instructor for that class of about 15 students. I taught about 2 years to those students ranging from 5 to 14.

It wasn’t that bad, as I already had some experiences teaching while I was in Brown belt, and I personally know my stuff very well. There had also been some learning to communicate, to people and teach them a new skill, from pattern Poomsae to kicks, to basic blocking and stances, etc etc.

So at that time my main role is to teach these students their color belt Poomsae so they can go for the grading test to advance to the next level. This means they’ll advance through Taekwondo’s color belt system all the way up.

Hmm I’ll blog about some of my experiences during my time, or even now, as I do teach Taekwondo as well.