Tammy Yard McCracken of Kore Krav Maga:

When you bow in to a martial arts class, who or what are you bowing to?

If you are teaching, who are your students bowing to? Do you think they are bowing to you? If you do – that’s a problem. Bowing is a ritual and with it come a series of artifacts. And yes, as an instructor, you have put in hours, days, years of training to reach this place in life. Teaching other people is not a right of your training; however, it is a responsibility.With all the different things you are teaching your students, the most important one is to teach them they can – and maybe should – be training to become better than you…

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