Joining the martial art is one thing but getting the desired skills and techniques is another thing. The expertise of a given martial arts teacher are the same knowledge shared with the students, and therefore a teacher with excellent martial arts skills produce good martial arts students.
In most cases, people joining the martial arts for the first time do not know how to differentiate between a perfect and bad martial arts teacher since they don't even know what to look for.
This means they may end selecting a terrible instructor leading to ultimately mediocre martial arts skills. Regarding how to spot bad martial arts teachers, below are the signs of a bad martial arts teacher.
The Instructor Lacks Martial Arts Skills
After a period of engagement with your martial arts instructor, you may notice that he/she is not able to do some of the techniques that he/she is asking you to do, you should start questioning his/her capabilities.In most cases, professional martial arts teachers try their best to hide their inabilities in that they act as good examples in training but they bad ones are easy to notice since they fail while trying to show a particular technique. Worry if the instructor entirely fails to do some of the martial arts workouts.
The Presence Of Excessive Injuries On The Students
It is evident that martial arts sport is prone to injuries due to the intensity of workouts involved.However, in the case an individual instructor training program has more injuries as compared to other same programs, it means that the martial arts teacher involved is not okay in this critical field.
Discrepancies Between The Students' Skills And Those Of The Martial Arts Teacher
This sign may not be evident if all the students are new in an individual training program, but if there is the presence of former or continuing students, it is easy.Compare what the students are doing and what the teacher is teaching. If there is a gap, raise questions simply because the students learn from the instructor, not from themselves.
Limited Training Time Frame (Less Than Ten Years Black Belt)
Besides thorough training, being an instructor also require a long time experience. A beginner student who becomes instructors after a few years cannot be having the necessary skills and techniques desired by the students.Adults And Children Training In The Same Class/Environment
The training or learning of martial arts depends on the age of the students. This means that kids and adults are trained differently and therefore they require different training classes. Besides, the materials used on adults should not be the same as those used on children since adults need devastating and immediate techniques.The children’s judgment is not the same as adults showing that there is a need to specify each groups’ needs. For these reasons and many others, a good martial arts teacher is the one who teaches the adults and kids separately.
Extended Martial Arts Contracts
Evidence has shown that instructors lacking the required martial arts skills are using long-term contracts to avoid termination of the contract due to inadequate training.Some of them impose high penalties if a student cancels the contract before the expiry of the agreed period so as to retain them. You should be conscious about this.