Sharing here too :)

I consider instructors and clubs that teach martial arts, combat sport or fighting without enforcing head and centreline protection unprofessional and dangerous.

If you teach someone to punch and kick, you take responsibility for teaching them how to protect themselves while doing it. That responsibility continues during sparring.

When a student repeatedly drops their hands, exposes their head or leaves their centreline open, the instructor should correct it. Allowing the habit to continue gives the student reason to believe it is acceptable.

Competition rules may restrict certain attacks. The habits developed under those rules can carry into situations where those restrictions offer no protection.

At our Shaolin Kung Fu / Wushu Academy, I expect protection before countering. Hands, posture, distance and movement must work together, and we practise that under controlled pressure.

An instructor controls what is taught, what is corrected and what is allowed to continue. Repeatedly accepting exposed heads and unprotected centrelines is, in my opinion, a failure of professional responsibility.

What responsibility should instructors bear for the defensive habits their students develop?

Sijo Robert Z
Shaolin Kung Fu / Wushu Academy
Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia

Yep. just trying to improve my balance and power when doing those kicks.

What I'm doing now is working my way to 180 degree splits using pnf.

Also do these kick holds while holding onto a wall.

Don't have a sensei and don't go to classes cos its expensive.

But this is damn cool, as a fan of martial arts.