Carol Wiley

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Teaching is an art. Effective martial arts teachers must not only be competent practitioners but must also develop the communication and interpersonal skills of any good teacher. In this collection, twenty-six experienced martial arts teachers discuss the process of learning and teaching a martial art, from the 'nuts and bolts' of teaching technique to the philosophical underpinnings of training.

Carol A. Wiley has studied martial arts for fifteen years. She holds a first-degree black belt in aikido and a second-degree black belt in tae kwon do. Editor of Women in the Msarital Arts (North Atlantic Books), she lives in Bellevue, Washington.

Contents

Introduction-Carol A. Wiley
One Instructor's Journey-James R. Garrison
Each Sparkling Strand: Honoring the Self as teacher and Student-Janet Alfs
Adapting Karate Instruction for Learning Styles-Carol J. Gittins
Reflections on Teaching-Jamie Zimron
Finding Your Way: Soft Blocking to the Music-Steven Ruskin
To Learn To Teach To Know-Michelle Dwyer
Developing Ki Flow-Jonice Owen
Ishin Den Shin-Helen Nakano
Teaching Children is a Challenge-Michael Friedl
Teaching the Future...Teaching Martial Arts to Children-Judith F. Marschke
Reviving the Spirit of Youth-Kate Hobbs
Learning From Children: Five Easy Lessons for Teachers-Didi Goodman
Criteria for Martial arts and Self-Defense Programs-Karla Grant
Practice Makes Permanent: scientific Training-Harvey Kurland
Communication in the Dojo-Jan DeMarinis
Authoritarianism in Martial Arts Teaching-Roberta Schine
A Method to Prevent High Ddropout Rates Among Beginning Students-Tracy E. Tucker
The University Dojo: Teaching a Traditional Martial Art in a Nontraditional Setting-Elmar T. Schmeisser
Teaching Martial Arts to Law Enforcement Personnel-Elizabeth A. Kennedy
The Joy in Sharing the Power-Valerie A. Pinto
Women, Martial Arts, and Healing from Childhood Sexual Abuse-Deborah L. McCormick
One More Way-Barabara Summerhawk
Sensei-Do: The Do and Do Not of Martial Teaching-Christopher J. Goedecke
Martial Arts and the Body-Mind Connection-Janet Gee
Teaching with Consciousness-Patricia Hendricks
About the Contributors
Notes
Books and More Books… (mer)

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Are women's experiences different from men's when they train in martial arts?
Here, twenty-three women offer their insights about practice on and off the mat.

'My practice has become my reflection, a mirror for me to see my life.'-Valerie Lee, Kung Fu And T'ai Chi Ch'uan

'Martial arts training helped me become more than just a survivor of a negligent ahd harsh upbringing. I became someone who could create choice in her life.'-Kathy Hopwood, Karate and Kung Fu

'If you don't feel good about yourself, if you're not confident within yourself...then no amount of technique is going to help, because you aren't going to react properly when push comes to shove.'-Lidia Wolanskyj, Aikido

'Yes, martial arts out of a wheelchair are possible. Therefore, this story is about me...and about the approximately 250 other disabled people to whom I have taught self-defense over the past five and one half years.'-Lydia Zijdel, Shuri-ryu Karate and Aikido

'In Aikido women can see the power of the Yin/Yang dance....To dance on that border between the two opposites and to accept both sides as valid is to accept ourselves for what we really are...empowered'-Elizabeth Hendricks, Aikido

Carol A. Wiley has been an engineer, and MBA student, and a technical writer. Since 1979 she has trained in the martial arts; corrently she studies Aikido in Bellevue, Washingon.

Contents

Carol A. Wiley-Introduction
Jody Curley-Coming Home: T'ai Chi Ch'uan as a Path of Healing
Wendy Palmer-Irimi: Going for Life
Debby Kirkman-Walking the Way of the Warrior
Michelle Dwyer-Golden Phoenix Rises
Wendy Whited-My Journey with Aikido
Valerie Lee-A Mirror for Me to See My Life
Kathy Hopwood-Open to Change: Steps along the Way
Ellie Doermann-To Stretch and Fly
Deborah Wheeler-Surviving a Murder
Maria Doest-Oppression and a Warrior's way
Carol A. Wiley-From Fatso to Breakfalls: Learning to Accept My Body
Lydia Zijdel-Martial Arts Out of a Wkheelchair: A Possibility or Not?
Debbie Leung-Martial arts and Women's Self-Defense: Two Perspectives
Karla Grant-Transforming the Victim Role
Janet Gee-Cultivating the Senses for Optimal Self-Defense
Lidia Alexandra Wolanskyj-One Stage on the Road: An Interview with Lidia Alexandra Wolanskyj, Conducted by Sharon McGowan
Marilyn May-Transference, Countertransference, and the Guru-Sensei: A Feminist Therapist's View of the Sensei-Student
Anne Moon-Women Training Women
Susan Perry-Aikido and Illusion
Debra L. Pettis-What is a Black Belt?
Laurie Cahn-FA JIN: Traditional Chinese Martial arts and Women's Search for Empowerment
Janet E. Aalfs-Women, Power, and Empowerment
About the Contributors
Further Reading… (mer)

This is one of those books where the real view can never look as brilliant as the coloured photograph on the page. Travel photography comes of age and is at its best. The combination of the eye of a professional photographer, the quality of the lens, the light at the right magic moment and the angled perspective turns every place into an alluring magnet for the traveller . This is a stunningly beautiful book because of the photographs and in every way achieves the high standards set by DK Eyewitness travel , but with such a weight it is not a travel guide and can only be used by the armchair traveller to savour and enjoy places already visited or perhaps to signal the next place to visit. It is a a weighty coffee table book to keep alongside your comfortable armchair and take time to dream of far away places when you are keeping snug . I visited Iran and. Persopolis a few years ago so it was a special delight to see the Apadana Staircase as the backdrop photograph to Bill Byson's forward. Forty-four travel writers have contributed their short inserts but it is only in reading the "About our Authors " sections that you can see who wrote what. The object of this book is to introduce 1000 "amazing places off the tourist trail" . The method is to give top billing to an alternative gem , a worth visiting place versus the better known and hence more visited place . The advice , for example, is to see Avebury vs Stonehenge with short recommendations on six other ancient stone megalith sites around the globe . Boxed snippets follow the formula "Forget the known place?" and explore the new recommendation is a negative sales pitch. I agree on the promotion of Herculaneum vs Pompeii ... We found Pompeii tarrific but Hercullaneum even better and my advice would be enough time to visit both and enrich yourself with the contrast between the two Roman buried sites. I loved the recommendations on the smaller Parisian museums though none would replace the Louvre. For my own country, the San rock art of the Drakensberg is pitched against the cave paintings of France's Lascaux . But if you happen to be a tourist and traveller in SAfrica this special temptation to get to the Drakensberg has to feature in a well researched itinerary . My next travel destination is Turkey and while I shall absorb all of the recommendations in this book, it cannot be your sole guide. The theme "the roads less travelled" is a novel selling point but will the book itself result in a switch in destination emphasis. I doubt it. Overall a delightful book and earns. 4 stars in my ranking. Maybe 4.5 .… (mer)