Feats


	Feats

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Tests

Each teaching assistant will be tested in a variety of ways. Some tests will be obvious and the student will know that they are being tested. Other tests will be subtle.
The purpose of testing is to gauge attitude and progress. There is no pressure involved and no hassle.

Assignments

There are as many assignments to complete as you want to study. Essentially; the more you do, the more you will be offered and the more you will learn.
Assignments are about personal development and gaining a deeper understand of theory and principles behind the training. A deeper 'mental representation' significantly alters your ability to teach.

Challenges

Challenges are very different to assignments. The challenges require a range of skills to be implemented:

• Working by yourself
• Working with others
• Thinking things through
• Giving-up personal time
• Working without supervision
• Discussing ideas with other students
• Planning, testing new ideas, then evaluating success/failure
• Potentially motivating/persuading other people to assist you

Feats

A teaching assistant should acquire many skills that may be regarded as 'feats'. These serve to illustrate a higher-level of ability and martial competence.
No feat can be immediately realised; all will require considerable resolve, practice and dedication.
Feats are the outcome of making connections and associations within the art, the syllabus and within your own body.

Like any intricate or complicated art, budo has so many subtleties, so many individualised manifestations, that there is no way it can be taught through books or video or through a teacher standing at the front of a big hall and counting movements like a drill sergeant. The relationship must be immediate, at least for those practitioners seeking to move further along the way than just the first steps.

(Dave Lowry)