The topic of too much information was thrown at me tonight! Is it better to just do as I do or have everything single little detail explained? Is simplier easier or is fully detailed out instructions to the point of miniscule facts about movement taught better? Is there really a need to break a movement down to the perfect degree of measurement or just do a I do?
My idea of teaching a good roundhouse...there is a stool in front of you, kick over it! But my favorite advice ever came at my first Nationals. My coach was screaming for me to turn my hip over. Then I hear "If you don't turn your hip over you are going to do 10,000 kicks next week! The other coach started laughing as did I...you can see on the video a big smile on my face, but you can't see the ok sign I held to my side as I started to turn my hip over!
Well there you go...you came to the answer yourself. Personally I want all schools to be like Eric Suan's Force of One Martial Arts . Master Song in Daegu used to teach the roundhouse by screaming "TURN YOUR WAIST". Eric taught it and I teach it by telling them turn your heel to face the target. Lot of different ways to skin a cat, I'm glad that you found something that works for you.
Every school should be different or we would only need one Master! I taught 9 classes today and each one I carefully thought, ok, if I had to explain how to actually pivot your plant foot for a roundhouse kick...well..... we would still be at the first class!!!! Simple explanation...turn your hip and make your belt face the other way!
Of course it could be lack of warm up and stretching and then going all out. That may be why I'm nursing a hamstring . My instructor in Daegu was a real stickler for position it was either perfect or wrong, and you didn't want to be wrong especially if you came to his class having earned a BB somewhere else...thats a different story entirely. As much as I have considered that a wasted year in our training to give credit where it is due our technique is more polished and crisp where our sparring skills and enthusiasm took a beat down. IMHO as I have said before. your training needs to be multifaceted it should cover flexibility, conditioning, technique, self defense, sparring, forms, etc, usually I find schools are hammering one portion of the training at the cost of another. I do think that your target audience is the key factor in the equation when it comes to how much detail am I going into while teaching this technique. Some of us are emphatic about every nuance of a technique and for some it is just going to suck the enjoyment right out of it. How those nuances vary from one school to another is a whole different rant.
Thank you for the response on that...Got into a frustrating conversation with a lady from another school who was insistent that every single detail of every single move, every single piece of history of why must be taught! Their school is not the sme as ours yet she insisted that it should be! If all schools were the same.......? At her school there appears to be an seriously high amount of injuries as well, so in my mind I am thinking that either the students are over focused on why than just do or they have too much ego and a monster chip on their shoulders!
Sarge is right. I do this the everyone I'm teaching especially the beginners it helps to learn if you know "look see your opponent, execute a down block to to block his kick, now step forward and counter with a punch to the midsection" From there it is easier to explain why a punch is twisted, why do we kiap, why.....
Personal opinion only here but I am the type of person that likes to know "why". Why do I have my hand held in this manner? Why to I twist at the end of a punch? Why to I cross my arms like this doing a High Block? When an art, or instructor, teaches me "why" I can then judge for myself the value of the explaination and the movement. I absolutely hate "Do it because I said so".
You keep refering to "do as I do"...what do you do. There is a time and a place to be a position nazi but most of the time and depending on the student it isn't required. Look at your target audience and judge what needs to be done...if that isn't working try something else.
we would still be at the first class!!!! Simple explanation...turn your hip and make your belt face the other way! 
