I've been a little quiet recently, and I thought I'd share some of my musings.
Why do students overcomplicate things? Increasingly of late I've noticed that my students keep adding superfluous movements into their forms, extra little flowers and hand turns that serve no purpose and I certainly didn't teach them. Some of my students seem to have this subconscious desire to look like a Shaw Brothers movie This then led me to think are some of the impractical "advanced" transitions that you see in some forms simply a result of this?
This then spills over into the application drills. If I'm teaching a simple weight drop throw they keep trying to put extra steps, trips and turns into it. Last week I taught an application that simply went check, cling, pull and it took me half an hour simply because they kept putting extra little grip changes , steps and twists in and then couldn't make it work Again, I'm thinking is this why you see so much BS overcomplicated application work in TCMA?
I'm really finding it quite frustrating, do you think over time I can just drill it out of them, or does anyone have any ideas and strategies that may help?