Principle #1

People will do what they practice
As many of you are aware, repetition is the mother of skill. This is especially true in the martial arts! How many times someone repeats a motion will determine not only their level of proficiency, but will solidify their muscle memory so that they will be able to use these skills in a time of a major adrenaline surge (i.e. – a true self-defense situation).

The AMAI curriculum has been developed in such a way that the students will repeat their material constantly. Fortunately, this is not through repetition only! The curriculum has been designed in such a way as to allow your students to progress from…
1) …learning the basic movements to…
2) …implementing those same movements with a partner in a self-defense or sparring situation and
3) …repeating those movements in the air in a form with proper knowledge of the moves usefulness and effectiveness!

Principle #2

You learn martial arts material more effectively when you know what it is for – EXACTLY.

With many martial arts organizations and the systems they use - - there is typically a lot of ‘filler material.’ These are martial arts techniques that generally don’t fit in with the application of a form someone is currently learning. Many instructors have become very “proficient” at explaining a movement that they really have no idea what it’s original intent was!
In actuality, there are many curriculums that do not even incorporate their self-defense and/or one-step sparring moves with their form at all.

What does this type of curriculum mean for the student?
FRUSTRATION!
When the student is bombarded with MEMORY, they do not have enough time to actually WORK their material. They are too busy memorizing.

What does the AMAI curriculum mean for the student?
SUCCESS and CONFIDENCE!
The AMAI curriculum is MEMORY based – since ALL partner drills are incorporated DIRECTLY into the students’ forms.

Principle #3

Disguised Repetition
As we discussed earlier, repetition is the mother of skill.
With the AMAI curriculum – your students get to practice the same material over and over (repetition), however they will do this on bags, on each other and in the air. There is NO down time in students learning!
With less memory and more disguised repetition built into the training curriculum AMA members will have a number of benefits…
1) More training time during the testing cycles (no more of that last minute hoping you can get someone to memorize X, Y and Z to be able to test)
2) More efficient martial artists! Flat out, if you have more time to train, while spending less time on memory - - - you will become better, faster.
3) The time it takes you to learn how to defend yourself is truly reduced. The entire AMAI curriculum is reality based and highly effective!