Bruises: How students don’t learn – Kim Taylor, Renshi, CI Sei Do Kai Guelph ON, Nanadan Iaido and Roukudan Jodo

A friend in Japan sent the following: "What to do when what the seniors are doing seems unnecessarily harmful? Squeezing the forearm where the pulse is, so hard it's leaving bruises and female students are being approached at work about possible domestic abuse? Yonkyo, in other words." Yonkyo indeed. First, I have an observation on … Continue reading Bruises: How students don’t learn – Kim Taylor, Renshi, CI Sei Do Kai Guelph ON, Nanadan Iaido and Roukudan Jodo

How do students learn? – Kim Taylor, Renshi, CI Sei Do Kai Guelph ON, Nanadan Iaido and Roukudan Jodo

More questions from my student which I probably won't answer well, but it gives us something to chat about. "The senior is always supposed to help the junior learn, so anytime I practise with a junior I am to ignore my own training for their sake and do my training later? Would this not require … Continue reading How do students learn? – Kim Taylor, Renshi, CI Sei Do Kai Guelph ON, Nanadan Iaido and Roukudan Jodo