Does anyone take notes at class?

[redtornado]

Well, hell yeah!! I always take notes!!! I always pay attention to my sifu and when I hear something that I need to remember I"ll take a note of it!! Also I keep note of mt training I feel that I can keep a record of my training to see how I am growing...
So notes are good....
Jeffrey Williams Red Tornado

[IronFist]

Originally posted by apoweyn
The danger of being an avid note taker (though it's not inevitable) is that you fall too deeply in love with the lists. "I have a list of six hubud drills!" But then you have to figure out whether hubud in general or the various drills specifically are useful to you.

Yes, I could see that happening to me. I mostly take notes for grappling things because I suck at grappling and I forget the stuff after like a week.

What is "hubud?"

[Gangsterfist]

hubud is like taiji push hands I believe.

[apoweyn]

Gangsterfist is right. Hubud is a sensitivity/flow drill in the filipino arts. Similar to push hands in taiji or chisao in wing chun.

You can see some examples of it at the bottom of this page:

http://www.andy-guettner.de/ani03.html

[MasterKiller]

I never take notes. If you go to class and/or practice consistently, I don't think you need them because you are reinforcing the training through practice. I hardly took notes in college, either, though, so it's probably just something that works for me.

I keep a file of terminology. Mostly Chinese-to-English translations.

[norther practitioner]

I don't take notes either, for mostly reasons that MK said. I am forced to remember some of the beginners stuff when I have to teach and help the beg.

[IronFist]

Originally posted by apoweyn
Gangsterfist is right. Hubud is a sensitivity/flow drill in the filipino arts. Similar to push hands in taiji or chisao in wing chun.

You can see some examples of it at the bottom of this page:

http://www.andy-guettner.de/ani03.html

Cool, thanks for the link.

[apoweyn]

No worries Ironfist.

[SevenStar]

Originally posted by MasterKiller
I never take notes. If you go to class and/or practice consistently, I don't think you need them because you are reinforcing the training through practice. I hardly took notes in college, either, though, so it's probably just something that works for me.

I keep a file of terminology. Mostly Chinese-to-English translations.

depends... I know how to arm bar. However, I've also learned 23450 combinations and setups for it. We don't train every one of those every class, however, we will train the armbar itself. Like anything else, I know the ones that I use on a regular basis, but there are several that I don't use and several more that I've forgotten. for that reason, I like to write stuff down on occasion.


As a side note, I started this exact same thread a few months ago.

[norther practitioner]

As a side note, I started this exact same thread a few months ago.

We know, but your threads just seem so boring

[kungfuyou]

I take notes. I try to draw pictures next to certain stances and try to write the chinese name for the stance and then the english one as well. Basically what most here do as well.

[MasterKiller]

Originally posted by SevenStar
depends... I know how to arm bar. However, I've also learned 23450 combinations and setups for it. We don't train every one of those every class, however, we will train the armbar itself. Like anything else, I know the ones that I use on a regular basis, but there are several that I don't use and several more that I've forgotten.

Isn't that the MMA equivalent of forms collecting?

[HungMoJue]

Not only do I take notes, but we are required to. My Sifu gives you a workbook, which is like a printed notebook binder with hand-outs and sheets with the curriculum printed on it. The theory is that each student is basically on an "Instructor's Training Program" whether they teach at our school, or one day have one of their own, or they teach their children and it becomes their family art, they will pass it down completely and intact.