Grand Master Tallbear's Children's Classes

Pa Pa Black Belt as he is known to his children students, is without doubt the best teacher I have ever seen teaching children. He did not teach the same as I saw with other schools, he taught his own unique method that was totally incredible. The children were so enthused with the classes, never did I see one child yawn, or any children talking over their teacher, whether it was one of the instructors, or GM Tallbear's son, or Grand Master Tallbear himself, not once were the children out of line, or playing. This was so nice to see, because of how unique it was, and how well it worked for these children. I loved the way that Grand Master Tallbear taught his classes, you could see that he had this compassion and love for all of his students like no one else, but especially his children. This does not mean just children that come from good homes. Not on your life, Grand Master Tallbear also went to a lockup once a week and taught a class to young offenders that were going to prison for the rest of their lives. I went with Grand Master Tallbear many times to these classes, at first I was so sad for these kids. How did they become so involved in crime, and how could they have actually killed someone, or shot someone, stabbed someone, robbed a bank, raped, murdered, and everything in between, it was a horror. I could not believe it. But the one thing that was so marvellous about this situation, was that someone cared. You know, if everyone in the world said throw away the key for the rest of their lives, Grand Master Tallbear would still be standing there asking for permission to give these kids something to look for, something to hope for, something to dream about. There was no doubt, Grand Master Tallbear had a way with children that was beyond anything I had ever seen in my life.

When the children came in after school, right away they came in and started their warm up, without being told, without having to tell them over again.

It was something so wonderful to see

Because these were young children, they had a different type of work out, it had much more stretching in it, which is much better for a younger body. Any type of workout that is going to make large muscles is not that good for a young body, better to wait until a young adult has fully grown before doing weights, or heavy push ups. I am not saying that they should not do push ups, what I am saying is that they should not be made to do to many, rather to work more on stretching and then forms, and technique. Which is exactly what they did. Everything that has to do with teaching children, came from Grand Master Tallbear.

Learned so much from the Tai Liu Chuan Fa Children's classes

All of the older kids in their teens would help Sigung Tallbear with the warm up for the children. I learned so much from these classes, and how to teach children properly, which were some of the things missing from Grand Master Chow's classes.

Sigung Tallbear talking to children

First time I seen this, I really did get scared

This was always part of the belt tests, he would tell all of the students to get behind the student being tested and to hold him tight not allowing him to fly back wards with the force of his blow. And as you can see, his block was his spear hand technique to the stomach area. Students having their tests looked so frightened at first, when it was over, they would be jumping around the school screaming that was not that bad. Grand Master Tallbear had a way to bring his students to the next level, it was an amazing thing to watch. The way he interacted with his students, young or old, it mattered not, he was always in the middle.

Then came the belt

After the test, he would put the belt on his student, shake their hand, and give a big hug, an amazing teacher

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Sifu Dee

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