[Placebo]

I need some help with "Rising Up" track 4 BC21.

I taught it for the first time ever last Mon (I trained on 23, and my instructor didn't like 21 so only ever taught it once or twice). I guess I only remember it vaguely as a participant.

I watched the video and learned it off that. The chorey and the Masterclass is:

Rocky I sequence
Jab

Jab }
Cross } x3
Jab }

Hold

Reps 4

When I taught it, some of the class were putting in a "weave" instead of the "hold". I then had participants telling me after class that I 'forgot' the "weave". Have I got dud notes? Watched the video yet again and there's no "weave" there. Was there some addition to the notes or change in chorey from the video to the quarterlies that I don't know about?

Would love to know so I can either fix my notes and add the "weave", or explain that whoever taught it to them first may have 'introduced' something that wasn't there.

Thanks :-D

[Shane]

Placebo, on Oct 16 2009, 09:14 AM, said:

When I taught it, some of the class were putting in a "weave" instead of the "hold". I then had participants telling me after class that I 'forgot' the "weave". Have I got dud notes? Watched the video yet again and there's no "weave" there. Was there some addition to the notes or change in chorey from the video to the quarterlies that I don't know about?

Would love to know so I can either fix my notes and add the "weave", or explain that whoever taught it to them first may have 'introduced' something that wasn't there.

Thanks :-D

There is no weave. Definantly no weave!
(No weave in my notes. No memory of ever doing a weave and this is an old school fav!!)

The hold is there in prep for Rocky II sequence with the knee-kick business..

[Mel]

Nope, no weave there!

[Placebo]

Phew, thought I was having some kind of old persons 'moment' there for a while! Thank-you so much! :-D

Taught it again tonight at another gym, and no-one attempted to install a "weave". Obviously there's been a bit of "choreography license" at the previous gym.

Good grief, yet another wall to dismantle (I've only just stopped them doing 'attack' armlines for jacks - it's been two years!! :shock: ). Honestly, it becomes quite exhausting teaching the correct chorey and correct track sequence, when the other instructor appears to be a license unto herself. Esp when her participants come to my class and constantly rave on about how much harder she is as an instructor. For pete's sake, I guess if I did 5 Power tracks in a row/Muay Thai straight out of warm-up/bounced on my toes the entire class/walked off stage and yelled in peoples faces/told participants (who have injured their shoulder) to "punch through the pain"/made people do chest to floor push-ups at double time, then I might also be considered tough!

The only good thing that has come out of me arriving at this gym is that "other instructor" actually now goes to the quarterly workshops. She also has to teach each new release, not just the tracks she likes. But I really feel like the salmon that's swimming upstream 8-[

Oh dear, sorry to 'explode'.

[Mel]

omg I've met an instructor just like this! I hate it and I think it's a very selfish way of teaching. This particular instructor was very very popular, and I'm sure she used to change the chorrey around on purpose make sure she stayed popular. For example, if any one filled in her class, the participants would think the "new" instructor was wrong and complain about the instructor. Happened all the time, but the instructor continued to be manipulating and controlling.........I even heard that she would tell participants not to go to a particular class cuz she wasn't teaching it!

I didn't have a lot to do with this instructor, but I heard little tidbits, and participants used to tell me stuff. Not nice at all.