How Do Your Wrestlers Learn?
I was taking a lesson yesterday and the instructor asked "How did that feel?" "Can you feel the difference in the swing?" and he just kept asking me until I said something like "Not sure, it did not "feel" any differently.
This might be a good way to see how your wrestlers learn. For example, some wrestlers may learn via audio, some visually, some kinesthetically (sp?). The last is how I would learn if I answered the instructors questions about how it felt, etc.
Then it got me thinking, often times in class, you are lectured to. So you are only learning through your ears rather then your eyes or how something feels. I always knew I liked to visualize things and if I look back one of my accounting classes that I did well in involved visually recording journal entries into t-accounts.
Just something to think about when you are showing athletes moves. Some kids learn through their eyes, some ears, some have to perform the move to learn.
Another idea from Beasy Hendrix, wrestling author, is take a look at your kids when you are showing a move. Make it a point to move back and forth in front of the group. The kids in the back that are practicing the move - don't yell at them, they may learn through feel and have to practice the move, the kids that are watching you go back and forth, chances are they learn visually, and if kids are just listening and not making eye contact they may be learning through their ears and not their eyes.
Now if the kids that aren't making eye contact with you are not learning the moves, they may just be screwing around...
That's it for now, I'll take a look for some stats on what percentage of kids learn with what method...okay here are some stats according to one survey...kids in the survey were approximately 33% strong; approximately 20% strong auditory; and the rest a combination of both. The remaining 45% about 30% showed a leaning toward visual and 15% showed a leaning towards auditory. I'll have to see if they break it down by learning how something "feels" and post back later.
Here is another article about teaching methods for different students. I think its worth a look - Click Here
If you would like to read another article, it's talking about business stats class, but I think it's worth a look as well. Click Here to read the article.
-Jeff Pape
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