Winding Path Martial Arts Academy

We've made it to one of our last warmup videos in our Aikibojitsu series, and one of the most fun in my opinion. The ring spiral takes you from seeing and feeling the technique to trusting your hands to know where the stick is and just keep the rotation moving. Give it a try and reach out with any questions.

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School is coming back for many, bringing the stress of change of routine, new potential overwhelms, and many other deregulation causing issues. A couple of ideas that may help the process include:

- Self-Regulation strategies: Plan with your kids ahead of time on some consistent ways they can self-regulate. This can be sports, martial arts, movement exercises, quiet time, something that can help bring them back to feeling things are in order.

- The new influx of demands means they may need a bit of "lightening the load" from other demands. Give them a bit of space when it comes to demands after school, and slowly look to reintroduce when the routines have started to settle back into place for the schoolyear.

Each child is different and may need different strategies. Planning a bit ahead can help prepare for the changes and give a bit of order in the new chaos a fresh school year can bring.

One of the greatest crossover skills for anyone who enjoys sharing, teaching, coaching, whatever, is to be able to find a way to make something accessible and resonate with the individual.

Some people are visual learners, some prefer written details, others may like an anecdote that can provide a clear mapping of something relevant or more readily understandable to them and uses that to help guide the reasoning or ideas behind what you are teaching, sharing or coaching.

This isn't to dismiss tried and true curriculum's that are broadly successful at getting their materials understood, as that can be a great foundation to start with. But the important bit is to keep in mind that what makes something "click" for me doesn't necessarily work for someone else, and that's fine. The key is partnering to find what "does click" for them. Once that is discovered, learning and collaborating is that much smoother and more enjoyable, and as an added bonus the coach may have a new way to approach the same instruction.

The sentence "Coaching creates discovery" is from both directions. Good coaching will help others discover understanding in a way that resonates with those being coached, and also creates "discovery" for the coach as new and exciting ways to share their passions and curriculums. Discovery can then add excitement and desire to discover next thing on both sides, feeding that lifelong learner itch.

Can you think of a good coach who helped you "discover" and get excited about anything, and coaches, can you think of surprise "discoveries" that have helped you connect with students that much more quickly?

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Wrapping up the week's Aikibojitsu warmups, let's tie together the Palm away spirals by showing the transition between the palm away underthrow and the palm away enfolded overthrow.

We hope you're enjoying these techniques, and please feel free to reach out with any questions you may have.

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More fun with our Aikibojitsu warmup series. Today, the partner of the palm away underthrow from yesterday, the enfolded palm away overthrow. See comments for link (Thanks Facebook for capping external links 😠)

Week 3 of our Aikibojitsu warmup series continues, this week covering the palm away spirals. Today, let's look at the palm away underthrow, one of my favourite spirals and one used often in short forms and katas within Aikibojitsu.

Warmup 7 Palm Away Underthrow Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.