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FUNdamental Movement Skills for children’s martial arts
Often abbreviated to FMS, FUNdamental Movement Skills describe the ability to move the body in specific patterns using different body parts. They cover both gross and fine motor skills and are usually broken down in to three groups; locomotion, balance and object control. These skills are the building blocks the ...
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Coaching
Gradings for young children in martial arts – are you comparing apples with oranges?
We all want the best for our young ninjas but how do gradings help us develop the children? Developing their skills, physical abilities and positive physiological characteristics are at the top of our list of goals. So how do we use gradings to build these traits? Should we be using ...
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Coaching
Do stickers motivate children if used as a reward in your children’s martial arts classes?
The answer to the question in the headline is ‘Of course they do, they motivate children to want stickers’. Though the answer to the question may not be what we want when trying to motivate children to try harder, pay attention or even stop playing with that dam equipment…… sorry, ...
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Coaching
The curse of knowledge – the presumption of foundational skills and understanding
The Curse of Knowledge is when we make decisions based on the presumption of prior knowledge. While this can often happen when we are working with children, it is also common when you have been working a field for a long time. You can be blind to your sector specific ...
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Business
Martial Arts School, Club, Academy Or Children’s Development Centre?
Do you call your martial arts service a school, a club, an academy, a children’s development centre? Do you want to be classed as ‘School’? Do you feel that schools are a good ‘yard stick’ for measuring what you do? I know we market to the parents to get the ...
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Coaching
What is MAPLE?
MAPLE stands for Martial Arts Physical Literacy Engine and is the framework Coach Phill Payne has been working on for over a decade. The term Physical Literacy was first coined in in the 1920s but it was really brought back to life by Dr Margaret Whitehead in the early 1990s. ...
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