Originally Posted by
Cora Sek
Sam: as far as training Cora, you see we been at that gym for 2 yrs now and see so many kids come and go. And those that stayed isn't improving much in these pass 2 years maybe due to lack of parents involvement And I'm not sure if its just this gym but I don't see how any kid can improve much without extra outside help other than their coaches at the gym. Sometimes they spent 2 weeks going through the same techniques and then a couple of months later repeat that same techniques because now they are getting more new kids. So for kids that really want to improve their game like Cora and are faster learner, these recycle of old techniques just for the new kids are slowing their progress. The gym only last an hour. How can any kid improve with 1 hour a day and maybe only 2 hours a week at the gym? To be honest, not all kids there are there to learn, they take it as day care or something. The parents just drop them off and really don't care if their kid is learning or not. Well that can't be me. And I always preach to Cora, to be the best, you have to be willing to do more than the rest. So if her gym is teaching them 1 technique per week, I teach Cora 5-6. We drill 40 minutes before going to the gym everyday. And on the weekend that is when I have more time with her and that time is when we really hit the new techniques. During the weekdays, with school and homework, she only have 30-40 minutes to drill, so we don't do any new techniques, just review and drill the ones we practice that weekend before. Then we go to the gym, and anything she learn at the gym is just bonus. We basically use the gym for sparring purpose mostly as what they teach her are always a few weeks behind what I teach her. We've only been doing this way for 7 months, you can see by the vid of her prior to us starting to train like this. This way is working for us, probably differ from the usual. Due to me training her like this, she is able to take on kids that has way more experience than her. Wait and see what she will be like in another 6 months....