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To achieve maximum effectiveness teaching self-protection martial arts and karate you really do need to work with your words. If you understand how OC works then how you articulate things will matter a great deal in your teaching efforts. 
  • Your words can inspire or discourage without feeling either way to you.
  • Words associated with effort can be rewarding and those words can be a punishment as well, it depends on how well you use them.
  • Words can reward success and achievements or they can be perceived as punishment countering all your efforts.
Take a look at how OC works, look close and then choose words, sentences and their concepts as to how they reinforce and condition students to either excel or ... words, like the pavlovian process, can trigger responses and instill concepts that are counter to your objectives and theirs.
  1. Don’t punish with words, actions or deeds.
  2. Don’t punish or reward irrelevant stuff, i.e., stuff that does not condition the appropriate and effective concepts, perceptions and actions necessary to the intent of training, practice and applications. 
  3. Don’t foster the pavlovian responses, they don’t work because they are too restrictive and lack creativity. 
  4. Work from the principles of, “Stimulus to Response to Rewards.”
  5. Remember that one can achieve positive results using certain types of the negative, research this…
To understand you really have to know words, how words make concepts and affect feelings, how they cause compliance and what words when chained together influence others toward success, efficiency and expertise. 

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