March 2023

12 Mar

The Minor Miracle in My Japanese Training - PART I

by Jeremy Chance

I left off promising to explain the minor miracle in my Japanese training. Two stories had a significant impact on the appearance of this miracle…

In the 1980s - while I was in London teaching at Don Burton's ATA training - I became friends with trainee Sam Wilson. Last I heard, Sam was teaching in Hong Kong, but he could be dead now. I don't know! Neither does Chat GPT.

07 Mar

My Trouble with the 1600-Hour Standard - Part II

by Jeremy Chance

12 letters. One Word, repeated 22 times.

Conditioning.

That was the word I discovered in FM’s “Universal Constant of Living” that made sense of my bewilderment…

02 Mar

My Trouble with the 1600-Hour Training Standard - Part I

by Jeremy Chance

The growing horror I felt with my Kenkyusain system - its potentially degrading effect on the quality of my training - led me down a path of deep meditation about my training methods - both how I had been trained and how I was now attempting to train others.