I admit, our grading day gave me a lot to think about.
Unfortunately finding a good thread title wasn't part of it :thinking:
This thread though, I want to be a lot more positive :o
I'd like to hear some... stories of success you have had - not necessarily about yourself (they are welcome as well, of course!) but also about people you have had trained.
My reason for this: I co-train our JJ-Kids classes and sometimes the Karate-Kids as well.
Some of those kids were graded as well.
Everyone of them passed (one should have failed, to be honest. She's four and got so scared, that she forgot half the program. But it was only white-yellow and with the beginning of the next year belts aren't important in her age-group anymore.
She will only be graded again, when she's around 8).
Anyway - I am particularly proud of one 10 year old boy.
He came to us roughly half a year ago, and really had a hard time to learn how to move properly.
At first it looked like he was grown too fast and wouldn't know how to coordinate wayyyy to long arms and legs; he couldn't roll at all; wouldn't look at us, touching him* was something we were told he might not like (I admit I just did it when correcting him, and it never was a problem for the two of us; otherwise I would have stopped that!) and always seperates himself from the others; hardly talks to people; ... (so, yeah, a bit like me in kid-form ;) :D ).
*another proud moment was, when we did Ukemi and he volunteered to go into turtle-position, so the others could roll above him; he did that for minutes, never flinched once and the patience of an angel!
I asked his Mom if he had some sort of Autism (not right away, but when I got to know her better; I asked that two or three days ago), and by now I know that his sensory integration is disturbed.
Which explains his "movement problem" and everything else.
He always comes to training, does as he's told (which isn't necessarily normal; everyone who trains kids hopefully agrees here :o ), keeps trying and trying - he's my little hero, so to speak.
And now he had his first grading.
And I thought he did great!
So much better then I dared to hope, because I know he has trouble when things change and there are strangers and such.
Okay, he didn't look directly at the examiners, but he showed good techniques.
Not flawless (when showing Age-Uke the block itself was good, but his body would bent a bit - typical for the disturbance of sensory integration, as I have read), but easily good enough to pass the grading.
The others kids did very good as well, aside from the one girl, and I'm proud of those as well; one six year old "only" did Uke, and did very good either.
And so I told them all.
I felt very good though, when I congratulated that one boy and even was allowed to hug him (I asked him); he even hugged back!
I bet I smiled like an idiot at that moment :D
Now, I can't be the only one with experiences like that.
So I'd like to hear some other stories like that as well.
Or general stories about success, despite some odds :)
Unfortunately finding a good thread title wasn't part of it :thinking:
This thread though, I want to be a lot more positive :o
I'd like to hear some... stories of success you have had - not necessarily about yourself (they are welcome as well, of course!) but also about people you have had trained.
My reason for this: I co-train our JJ-Kids classes and sometimes the Karate-Kids as well.
Some of those kids were graded as well.
Everyone of them passed (one should have failed, to be honest. She's four and got so scared, that she forgot half the program. But it was only white-yellow and with the beginning of the next year belts aren't important in her age-group anymore.
She will only be graded again, when she's around 8).
Anyway - I am particularly proud of one 10 year old boy.
He came to us roughly half a year ago, and really had a hard time to learn how to move properly.
At first it looked like he was grown too fast and wouldn't know how to coordinate wayyyy to long arms and legs; he couldn't roll at all; wouldn't look at us, touching him* was something we were told he might not like (I admit I just did it when correcting him, and it never was a problem for the two of us; otherwise I would have stopped that!) and always seperates himself from the others; hardly talks to people; ... (so, yeah, a bit like me in kid-form ;) :D ).
*another proud moment was, when we did Ukemi and he volunteered to go into turtle-position, so the others could roll above him; he did that for minutes, never flinched once and the patience of an angel!
I asked his Mom if he had some sort of Autism (not right away, but when I got to know her better; I asked that two or three days ago), and by now I know that his sensory integration is disturbed.
Which explains his "movement problem" and everything else.
He always comes to training, does as he's told (which isn't necessarily normal; everyone who trains kids hopefully agrees here :o ), keeps trying and trying - he's my little hero, so to speak.
And now he had his first grading.
And I thought he did great!
So much better then I dared to hope, because I know he has trouble when things change and there are strangers and such.
Okay, he didn't look directly at the examiners, but he showed good techniques.
Not flawless (when showing Age-Uke the block itself was good, but his body would bent a bit - typical for the disturbance of sensory integration, as I have read), but easily good enough to pass the grading.
The others kids did very good as well, aside from the one girl, and I'm proud of those as well; one six year old "only" did Uke, and did very good either.
And so I told them all.
I felt very good though, when I congratulated that one boy and even was allowed to hug him (I asked him); he even hugged back!
I bet I smiled like an idiot at that moment :D
Now, I can't be the only one with experiences like that.
So I'd like to hear some other stories like that as well.
Or general stories about success, despite some odds :)
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