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The Worst Teachers We've Ever Had

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0:00 as he's teaching one he's a terrible teacher two as he's doing certain small combos in his routine he's referencing where he got that combo likey okay this can be any kind of teacher it could be a school teacher Jiu-Jitsu teacher Japanese teacher dance teacher but what is who is the dumbest teacher you've ever had oh the stupidest teacher oh man oh I had a couple of stupid teachers could be any kind whether it's like from martial arts or like stupidest teacher anything man that's crazy I don't remember them I remember my best teachers but let me think about the stupid I've had some wild teachers um especially through the martial arts world you get some guys like there there's always something you can learn from these guys no matter what like they

0:51 they're they are really good at something but sometimes they're a little crazy and like how they teach is like really bad um I just had this one coach who was really a real heart ass and he would scare me all the time I'd be scared to go train with him like how he would intimidate you he would just like one time I was like trying to roll up your um your wraps right yeah and there was like a little thing and I was like I was I was being hella of slow cuz I wanted to be like perfect and he comes over and he's like ████ hurry this ████ up he's like you take it and youing roll it up right and why does it remind me of all martial art like instructor yeah I'm just why was he so aggressive about that moment yeah so like Master K I think he just was like you know sometimes he just wants people to hustle which I get like I get that aspect of

1:41 like sometimes people just ████ take too long they dilly dally whatever so I don't know maybe that was what he was going through but sometimes if you would mess up he would just like kick you in the head with that with no shingar dude just ████ kick and you're like oh you know you get Hella scared but that's just like I think that is kind of needed martial arts though too so he's I wouldn't say he's a bad teacher at all yeah but I just was really scared I was just super scared of him so like anytime he would tell me something I was like ah like you know just I feel like I couldn't learn under him sometimes probably not constructive yeah but I just yeah I was like a batter dog I just couldn't which might work for somebody out there but eventually you kind of learn how he coaches and then you you get you build more Rapport then you loosen up and you build a relationship and then you're like okay it's not that bad like a drill sergeant kind of yeah

2:31 dude my music teacher in high school was like a drill sergeant kind of like he would yell like what you play I played trumpet and uh he's like this old white dude and that's tight like if there would be like a a drummer cuz the drummers always ████ around like during class so like he would take his drumstick and ████ like Chuck it at the oh yeah mine was like that too like he didn't give a ████ he was like violent cursing all yeah basic literally that movie is like that guy in real life from marching B yeah marching band I realize a lot of marching bands have it's very military cuz it's a it's a it's like have to be huh yeah and so they they do that and to me I thought cuz when you grow up in like a Asian house like you get disciplined right so this was like oh that's their fault for ████ around you ████ checked on me I mean chucked at me all the time yeah yeah but didn't you deserve it but

3:21 probably honestly probably I didn't know if that was bad teaching or not because he it whatever he was doing worked cuz then everybody listened yeah hey you guys are winning and you're the best yeah it's just a culture thing I do have two people that come to mind different uh ends of the spectrum one was Miss Kim she was teaching trigonometry in 10th grade this like old mushroom head Korean lady like and she knew the math but like just because you have the data doesn't mean you're a good teacher that's what I learned you know what I mean just because you know how to do the material that you have to get this course of students through doesn't mean you're an Effective Teacher because if everyone in the class ████ hates you and you have no enthusiasm Charisma or inspiration it doesn't mean you're a good teacher it means you're

4:11 knowledgeable of the subject but that's the difference between knowledgeable and a teacher and that was honestly a huge thing because I pride myself on as a dance teacher I ████ really care about teaching and I pride myself on that more than I pride myself on choreographic artistic ability you know I ████ care about teaching I care about my students I care about the culture if I'm not an affected teacher I don't want to be teaching that time like I care about that more than how good I I at dancing or whatever the ████ right so that was a huge lesson for me because I just remember being like like I know you know what you're doing but like I don't care about learning this it doesn't mean I'm incapable of doing it I just don't care in this class anymore and it it comes down to the person not the material um second is as a dance teacher especially in my era you would go around

5:01 internationally to be teaching at just International workshops and dance camps all the time so you would always have this there would be this culture where like a bunch of teachers are on the roster if you're a teacher there you would jump into other teachers classes it doesn't matter if it's like your Forte or whatever you would just jump into people's classes because it was like the culture to participate as a student yeah and be a student other other teacher classes you know what I mean it doesn't matter if they jump in your classes it's just part of the culture like you're there you're teaching at this you know before after your slot this person's teaching you want to just kind of like show love to everybody you'll take everyone's Class at least once that's pretty cool participate I remember this one teacher who we randomly kind of mentioned today too this dude who ended up fiddling dling whatever super popular so like

5:51 popular people go to and this is urban dance camp in Germany this is one of the biggest camps at that time you've been there before Yep this dude's teaching and I'm like all right I'm going to jump in this class out of respect like is this what I'm like super into no but like part of the culture you want to even show your students later that you will always be a you're being the example you know what I mean like that's a part of the teaching you're almost getting your teaching out before you jump into your actual class right anyways we going to this class and this dude as he's teaching one he's a terrible teacher two as he's doing certain small combos in his routine he's referencing where he got that combo or something he'd be like yo this is from this team like this sty this is this teacher he's stealing he's tell where's like taking a bunch of from his peers not from like yeah oh wow yeah he be

6:41 like yo this part right here this is grv like this here is like post whatever he' be like saying specific and you would see it but like the fact that he would say it means he is very aware where he would get that and you would just throw it together in some like does you think acknowledging it almost exonerates that it's ████ up shut UPS it was really bad one artistically even if you didn't say any of that artistically again subjective it was still bad bad Artistry it's like shaving their name two if you're just talking about like how it feels to be a student in your class it's already bad three what you're actually doing from a material point of view like taking other people's stuff and like you're getting paid to present this in in a foreign International Space of Education it's like bad everything was bad and then it was just so embarrassing and this is a core memory not because it's like I've

7:31 been in a number of bad classes but this is core memory because like when you're a fellow teacher and you happen to take somebody's class and you're like this is whack but like you're trying to endure it and then at the end of the class he's like oh like let me call out my my teachers who are jumping in my class like using the clout of other instructors to represent this thing that's like also not your original work yeah it felt so weird to try and be respectful in the moment cuz you're also not trying to straight diss somebody or you're not going to just walk out the class you should have you know what I mean that is weird look at Anthony thinking my class like exactly I don't know if I fully believe it but you're like what's the what's the more proper message to send to students so you care more about the people that are like your peers in your class cuz I'm a fellow student than just the pride of what you believe is the most important it's such a ████ also cosigning some ████ up

8:21 ████ and you're just like ████ should I make a stand right now so puts you in a weird place all you can do is what you're in control of later and just being like all right when I get to my class I need to make sure I do ████ Justice to the culture to my arti and to these students I didn't know that that's funny it's weird ████ you know that means probably at a later date he probably was citing you as a source for certain that would be the worst possible version of this right here everybody went crazy too and he probably would say be like yo Anthony K is in my class it's like that would be so wet you guys like teaching do you teach I like I like teaching one onone I don't like teaching I don't like teaching I'll Mentor I'll coach I'll I'm the same way help troubleshoot yeah but I also say no to a lot of people yeah I like I like cuz I guess like for me if it's if since it's

9:12 breaking I think like traditionally the way that you teach breaking isn't so much like class- based it's more like they call it sunning like you just you take on like a Mini U and you just guide every like facet how how it goes it's not like a all right hours up bringing the next guy yeah it's like you kind of have to be just an example to that person will you take anybody like anyone no not at all please teach me hell no you unless the money's good dude if you had to pick between me and bares to be your uh your new Pro picking dude you're picking dick you know what I don't know man it's hard because you can't work with this body you want to teach us guy how to air flare he well he can already do freaking back flips what up guys thank you for watching us for so long if you like what we do please support our patreon Joe tell them what we have to offer so every

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10:56 more that's a lot of that's a lot of he's going to pick you bro for sure he can't move this body there at his biceps do what the ████ oh ████ I can't do that damn I think I'm the bigger challenge dude yeah the funny thing is we've had uh like the a teacher that comes to mind isn't even a guy that like he he would like appoint himself as like a teacher in Breaking cuz uh when we when we had like my first crew we'd have these like practices and then slowly like some ogs kind of saw that we had a practice space and they would just like kind of invite themselves and then um we we just ended up with a bunch of like like really known good B boys and they would just like become our like guides in a way but we weren't asking them for it but I just remember this one dude OG guy really cool guy still Mr Wiggles no no way he would be

11:47 like uh he would just stand over us like we'd be like try to make up ideas and we we be sucked like we weren't nobody and he would just stand there and be like no NOP no no no no no no no no he would say do you guys know you know like in breaking when something's a bite it's like it means that like someone else does that already like you're biting so we don't know anything and we're really thinking that we're making these like funny ideas up and he would just go bite that's a bite no that's a bite and then when you guys when you crash does he go like this on the floor no all we did was crash but then like it it came to the point where he was like we were like well then how do you do it like and we asked so like I'm glad you this became like a lifelong quote that

12:37 we to this day still used so we would go like we're like can you just tell us like how do we do the thing and he would just go he just practiced the worst that's it he goes the best coach ever he goes just practice Yeah the worst ████ teacher like he's right but that's not helpful that's thing he really was right but then like ever since then to this day like that was probably 2001 when he said that we will still do that to people with but we say in the same way that he does were like he just practice hey that's a beautiful irony sometimes the worst teachers are still capable of giving you the best lessons yeah cuz they it totally depends on it totally depends on how you are as a student right because like if you're a great student you're going to learn from the worst teacher but if you're a bad student you can't learn from the best teacher yeah yeah good students can

13:27 learn from the worst teachers actually for sure they learned the lesson the wrong through the wrongs it's also a funny thing that that he was like a lot of like older B boys are like this like now that's me but like they'll they'll teach you ████ that they can't even do you know what I mean like they can't do it themselves but they're like ah you're not doing it right you're not doing it right you're not doing it right but they've never been able themselves to learn it that's like a coach that's like a like a sports coach like they don't play but they're the ones telling the players what to do I guess if it's like strategy Mak sense if you're like a tactician but it's a technician but a lot of those guys are former players though a lot of them yeah yeah but then it's funny to hear it from someone that like clearly has like weight restraints that they can't learn it cuz they're just like and they never got close but they're telling you like n you ain't

14:17 doing it right especially with some of those those like B boy moves like you're standing on your ████ hands with your legs up in the air like the dexterity you need and the the strength you need to be able to do that yeah and he's right you do just have to practice but like but then there's also practicing incorrectly and then forever being locked into a bad technique like that's a dangerous thing too yeah that was a bad teacher when you said the weight restriction it made me think of I couldn't really think of one cuz I was like pretty sure I was the worst student so I probably brought out the worst in the teachers they were just pissed all day ████ FS here but my high school wrestling Coach man I cuz the weight restriction wise so wrestling is a very like um it's like a 24hour sport because you have we have weekly matches number one so you're always making weight every

15:09 single week like after the match everyone pigs out Monday maybe eat whatever Tuesday till Friday you're pretty much dieting like a ████ to make weight for that match every single week right and you have maybe like 50 matches a season or something that's so crazy yeah so food is such a big part of wrestling uh once the season actually starts yeah and this ████ was I swear to God he probably 300 lb and this fool would lay on the mat with a big gulp every practice and he's giving us ████ diet like don't forget don't ████ don't eat this don't eat that and then you hear the you know when the straw like you sucking the liquid and it's like like it's running out of like liquid and then he'll be talking and he's like slushing the ████ ice around like sh what the ████ and he also

15:59 like I think his knowledge was actually limited yeah cuz like we'll be in some crazy pin position like he just made ████ up yeah he'll be like get out get out from there and I'm like how do I ████ swim this arm back through like what the ████ and he's like just get out of there and afterward like dude I need to see better out of you just get out and I'm like what what do you want me to work on what do you want me to work on he go you need to work on getting out that's literally dude when we first started doing Jiu-Jitsu that was that was like 90% of coaching like we okay one time we were uh we we saw an old coach of ours at a tournament he was coaching and his guy's getting thrashed right and he's getting he's coaching on the sideline and he's getting frustrated ████ do it he's like he bro he said one time he goes like he's like do what

16:49 I do what I would do what would I do here do what I would do brother and then and then like pummeling is like when you get underhook and you get an arm under he's like so sometimes they're in like static positions where they're here and then the guy says Pummel to the sound of my voice Pummel to the dude I don't know I will never know what that means just say your left hand if it's your left arm you need to Pummel like it it was just like so ridiculous where it was like out of a movie and this is a joke that we just say all the time in the gym my voice we're like do what I would do there do yeah bro like that is what I would do that's out of a that's out of a parody movie ████ crazy but you know he a nice guy though the coach that you had when you had to wrestle that blind guy yeah yeah yeah same coach

17:41 sick yeah same and the black guy ████ you up huh yeah gu held his hand out for M&M's and bad decisions across the board like one he was not a good coach didn't teach well um didn't like now that you have a good coach like let's say you a bad position they'll tell you step by step first of all not too bad deep breath okay now pull the guy's knee to your chest or whatever and you're just think what and you're oh ████ I'm getting out versus just get out of there and then the hell is that and then one time we're going we're going up against another school and how wrestling works is yes it's an individual sport but it's team points at the end that wins oh okay so you look at your squad and you want to try to guarantee as many wins as you can so usually if uh what you do the night before like let's say there's two dudes in the same weight class M you wrestle

18:33 off who does Varsity next day so like let's say I beat Nick and we're both 135s I get to do 135 so that you put your best foot forward with the 135 guy and then if they have a guy that's not on your roster of weight classes Nick will do that holy ████ Nick will Nick will do that one so that way so then that way you don't you you try to guarantee as many wins as possible this is ████ known strategy AC Ross every single wrestling school across the world we went to we were we're going up against ████ Temple City or sarine or whatever the guy that I wrestled off against I won so I'm supposed to go with that 135 guy but instead he goes Bart you're stronger so you're going to do the 150 guy so he bumps me up to do a weight class which is almost going to be

19:23 an automatic loss because strength and size is huge in wrestling and and then the other guy that was supposed to be kind of like the swing weight guy he gets to go the one3 so we both lose so I'm like we could have had like one in one oh but now it's the way just the way he planned instead of the guaranteed win he risks you he screwed over both you guys yeah it's like having imagine you're able to split cards in blackjack right you're like oh no you imagine you get Queen Ace and you're like I'll split up why you're like what who does that no one ████ does blackjack no no no no no no hold on hold on hold on like ████ 12 ████ 13

20:13 ████ he got 19 ah ████ that F just made it up D then he would get mad he goes dude we have so many losses why did you get out of there yeah exactly told you to get up I was like what part of get out of there did you not understand B oh d yeah there some bad teachers out there man it was ████ crazy but that's that's the best part is the Bad Teachers help you figure out how to be a better teacher value the good ones that come hell yeah dude yeah now especially now you like with taica and you watch different people teach in I get out of there get out of there dude stand up ju's fake

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