Witty Wednesday: What kind of trainers do you prefer?

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What kind of trainers do you prefer? Yes, I think I asked a correct question. It may be strange that this question is not generally asked but since there is actually some aspects that I would like to clarify. This is not polling, but if you guys are reading this article and you are also learners or fighters, grateful if you can share your honest answer. Also, by asking this question, it is not limited to only to ask in one or two specific sport martial arts, but I mean in general. No matter what you practice:  Muay Thai, boxing, Judo, MMA etc.

Sometime, students / trainees may have more confidence if they know that his/her teacher is a great fight who had excellent fight records and victories, so students can be sure that they learn from the best. At the same time, some students don’t really care about this as long as the trainer has good knowledge and can teach them well, ultimately, students get what they expected (what they paid for).

In my opinion,depends on what kind of learners you are. For the learners who want to learn martial arts for hobby/ exercise/ leisure time or even want to improve self-defend skills, this kind of learners may not worry so much about their teacher’s backgrounds. He does not have to be a great fighter, but knows the theory and teaches well, plus some real fight experience would be enough to deliver effective lesson.

For other group of learners, particularly martial artist sport players or professional fighters, their expectations may be different. This kind of learners seek for success in his sport martial arts career, so the extensive experience in real fights and competition is what they expect from their trainers. The knowledge here seems to be less important than experiences and special techniques the trainer gained form the fights he had. So, they may want to be trained with some kind of ex-champions.

However, a good player will not always be a good trainer. We have seen many of great professional sport players when they retired from the career and turned to be coaches but not very successful ones. On the other hand, we also have seen a lot of examples of a man who never has any real experience of the game but particularly focuses and studies on how to coach and finally becomes a good trainer.

I just would like to make a summary here that people have different expectation, but if the expectations are met, then your trainer’s background or ability is not important at all. Instead, full respect and believes in your trainer is much more appreciated.


What about you guys? What kind of trainers do you prefer?


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