Thought of the Day – Respect

Those of you who have trained with me know that I run my classes in a less formal manner than a Traditional Martial Art, I have never questioned my approach before but the last couple of weeks have made me re-think my approach to coaching.

Over the last week or so a few things has happened to make me question if I should be much strict with the way I coach. Make things a little more formal like no talking when warming up, not bowing and stuff like that.

But why do I have to do it now? I have never had to do it before! More and more people know what MMA is and want a piece of the action … not a bad thing because of this I have had some good new lads join the gym … But like every thing else …. With the good, comes the bad … What goes up, must come down and so on.

So what do I do? Just banning people who don’t show respect to the team? This concept makes me nervous because I have never banned any one and I always try and run an open door policy. But like in life …. The actions of a few can affect the masses and we have a very busy time coming up this year with fights.

As usual with my little rants, I don’t give an answer …. Just more questions, lets see how the upcoming weeks pan out.

Spenna