Okay, a guy down the street from my house is teaching me and my cousin Kenpo Karate, Brazilian Jiujitsu and Taekwondo. He is teaching us the different styles one by one. We're still on the first one, Kenpo Karate. He has had 30+ years of experience with all three of those styles, he knows more styles than that, but is only teaching us those three (for now anyway). My question is, why does he instruct us to do a technique one way, then the next time we come, tell us to do it a different way? He has done this twice so far. Once with a grab technique. This is how he told us to do it the first time: Perry a punch, then move in and trap the opponents arms to their sides by getting them into sort of a bearhug, then tuck your chin into their chest, then put your right foot in front of their right foot, while keeping the bear hug, then use your hip to flip them. The second time he told us to do it the same way, but to trap thew arm closest to you, but not the other arm.
The second time he did it was with a technique that you use if your opponent grabs your shirt. The technique is as follows: Say they grab your shirt by your chest with their right hand. Trap their hand on your chest with your left hand, step back with your left foot, then use your right hand to break their arm, hyperextend their arm, strike their throat etc.
The second time he told us that if they grab your shirt with their right hand, to trap their arm with your right hand, step back with your right foot, then use your left hand for your strikes. He said because if you do it the first way (the way he told us to do it, then said he didnt tell us to do it that way) your exposing your self to punches and kicks from their free arm and leg.
He didnt tell us to do it the second way as if he was correcting himself, he told us to do it the second way (both times) after he told us to do the moves on each other for practice.
(He doesn't make us slam each other, and we do it slowly so he can see each step and see if we are doing it right or not.)
I didn't hear him wrong either time. Why does he do that?
The second time he did it was with a technique that you use if your opponent grabs your shirt. The technique is as follows: Say they grab your shirt by your chest with their right hand. Trap their hand on your chest with your left hand, step back with your left foot, then use your right hand to break their arm, hyperextend their arm, strike their throat etc.
The second time he told us that if they grab your shirt with their right hand, to trap their arm with your right hand, step back with your right foot, then use your left hand for your strikes. He said because if you do it the first way (the way he told us to do it, then said he didnt tell us to do it that way) your exposing your self to punches and kicks from their free arm and leg.
He didnt tell us to do it the second way as if he was correcting himself, he told us to do it the second way (both times) after he told us to do the moves on each other for practice.
(He doesn't make us slam each other, and we do it slowly so he can see each step and see if we are doing it right or not.)
I didn't hear him wrong either time. Why does he do that?