Developing a team training environment.

Developing a team training environment.

One of the things I talk to the students about on a regular basis is the importance of having a team that you can train with that will create the correct learning environment. Often times it is thought that in the martial arts the harder you go in your training the better you will become. More often than not this is not true, in my 33 years in the martial arts what I have witnessed is the guys that go hard generally end up injured and fallout of training or the guys on the other side of the room that are training more intelligently will catch up to them and their ego can handle the reality that they were wrong.

I'm not saying that one should never trained with intensity this is important too. But if you have a good group of training partners, what I normally referred to as a intelligent training team, you have the ability to safely try new things which you would not normally try against an aggressive opponent. Having this environment not only gives you the ability to train longer but also to train in a more intelligent manner.

Sometimes this type of training is difficult to find. That is why it is a common saying that a good training partner in the martial arts is worth his weight in gold. So if you happen to find just one partner who has this mentality of training much less a group of people you are very fortunate.

Alan Baker

Sifu Alan is the founder and chief instructor at the Atlanta Martial Arts Center located in Woodstock/town Lake Georgia. For more information on Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, Thai Boxing, Jeet Kune Do or Filipino Kali you can contact the school at 770-926-3030 or you can check us out online at atlantamartialartscenter.com