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In my efforts to learn, assess and present teaching in the dojo, especially for self-protections and defenses, I decided to list the articles I have/had written on the subject. You probably already know and are asking the question, “What are your credentials that warrant your recommendation and expertise?”
Well, I was a Marine Corps Instructor for almost ten years of my career. I had received all manner of training, civilian and military, on the art of instruction and teaching as well as salesmanship, etc. I also taught for most of my Martial Career spanning in excess of forty years with this caveat that most of what I present herein was studied and learned after I stopped actively teaching in my own dojo.
Most of my career involved my abilities to communicate and pass on data, facts, information and a lot of “how-to” stuff to my staff, students and practitioners both in the professional world and in the dojo. Here is a list of my lifetime resume where teaching, mentoring and guidance were an intricate part of what I did.
Lifetime Resume
Construction Worker: Drywall
Food Services: Produce Stocking
USMC/Military (9 years 11 months):
- Motor Transport Chief NCO/SNCO (Non Commissioned Officer/Staff Non-commissioned Officer)
- Licensing & Training SNCO
- Recruiter
- Career Planner
- Martial Arts Instructor Special Services
NWSC Civil Service (15+ years):
- Motor Vehicle Operator Mail Services
- Warehouse Manager/Forklift Operator
- Materials Expeditor MAERU World Replenishment Manager
- Communications Security Manager
- Radiation Control Technician
- Special Weapons Technician
- UNION Chief Steward AFGE
- Container Repair Technician
- Physical Security Manager/Specialist GS-11
UC Berkeley (18 years):
- Mail Room College of Engineering
- Programmer Analyst I/II
- QA/Release Management Analyst III
I have always provided a service, paid and pro-bono types of effort, to others and I received in like ways non-paid, paid and pro-bono [Latin phrase for professional work undertaken voluntarily and without payment. Unlike traditional volunteerism, it is service that uses the specific skills of professionals to provide services to (others as in this case within and without the dojo) those who are unable to afford them.] types of teachings in return. Some of the teaching stuff I present in the following had to rub off on me and had to accumulate through efforts in studies as well as experiences.
One professional expert in violence said that the first and best defense against aggressions and violences is, “People Skills,” whereby active listening tops the principles of those skills along with the ability to communicate using compliance skills, influence principles and other methodologies necessary to first listen, then understand, followed by empathy and followed by appropriate types of communications that influences others into doing or not doing something resulting in aggressive/violent tendencies.
I hope that what I present provides value and a service to you, the student; the practitioner; the businessman; the sensei; the senpai and so on inspiring research, analysis and synthesis as well as seeking out professionals and experts and others to exchange, learn and develop your teaching, mentoring and instruction methods to get maximum conditioning and concept creation and mental retention of all that makes up this “wide world of martial practices!”
Let the journey of a single step begin here:
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