So in the past week, we've been discussing how to cultivate and encourage team bonds within the club. We've noticed for months now that the club isn't quite the same as it used to be in the sense that its members are not really close friends. Thinking back to how it was for us, the club was our social circle--it still is. But we think that this lack of team spirit is largely responsible for inconsistent motivation and a lack of excitement and passion for wushu.
During yesterday's practice, we set out with the goal of making sure that club members watched each other and give at least one comment or suggestion for improvement to the person in front of them in the line during basics. In the group of intermediate members learning first compulsory changquan, the same was implemented during form rotations.
As for some goals for my coaching in particular, I'm trying to be more picky with the advanced members. It's likely that after coaching beginners and also less than motivated intermediate members, I've grown to be more apathetic and less invested in making sure they learn everything correctly from the beginning. Thinking back, I've had to coach many members who if I had tried to be picky, they would have never moved past form 1. So there absolutely is this fine line between overloading a student versus underestimating them.
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