Retaining the information from Seminars

Lassard

As an occasional attendee of training seminars, I find that even though I try & make mental notes during the training , I still end up forgetting about half of
the information. When I go to make notes after the session it always feels like
I've missed at least a few salient points.

How do people go about remembering as much as possible from their ongoing training or seminars / workshops they may have attended?

Thanks

Lassard

Nothingcompares

I don't really go to seminars for the reasons you've mentioned. But I think most people are recording seminars these days so you should be able to go back to it at a later stage.

Think of it like a lecture. Take notes. Revise the material over and over til you remember it.

pearsquasher

I'm a long time attendee at Bujinkan seminars - about 4/6 a year since 2001.

- ask tons of questions of the instructor - be a pest!
- train with other seminar attendees afterwards to consolidate your knowledge
- attend a seminar with this goal: "I will learn 5 new things". It's pointless to try and absorb eveything
- don't learn techniques but learn the principles that power the techniques
- learn with your body, not paper and pen

Damo W

Lassard wrote: »

As an occasional attendee of training seminars, I find that even though I try & make mental notes during the training , I still end up forgetting about half of
the information. When I go to make notes after the session it always feels like
I've missed at least a few salient points.

How do people go about remembering as much as possible from their ongoing training or seminars / workshops they may have attended?

Thanks

Lassard

As said, take notes during seminar, been at a few where participants have done this and one person got out laptop and typed the notes there and then.

If instructor produces commercial dvd getting a copy or the seminar (or even being allowed to tape it) may not always be an option.

Although no one could stop you from taping yourself at the seminar doing the stuff, good option!

Also, usually no one has a problem with a voice recorded, this can help with pointers and can jog the memory afterwards.

arybvtcw0eolkf

I think seminar's are mostly lost on beginners, there's just way too much to take in for the beginner to decypher that info and work it into his/her own game.

The value in seminar's for me is to find something which I can work into my own game, not neccessarily a winning move - but something which I might use to better open up my opponent for my favourite techniques.

For the beginner, mostly what can be taken from a seminar will be better learned in the club with more experienced partners, people who know your weak points - know their own strong points and have the ability to show you how to work those into your own game to improve you.

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cowzerp

I love seminars but feel you should do them with a buddy so between you its easier to remember the details, then go through them the next few days and as makikomi said, beginners wont get much as a lot of the stuff needs basic knowledge already before you can do the more technical things..but sometimes what they seen will come to them 6 months down the line when they are rolling or sparring and have a different knowledge level..so they can benefit beginners in this way.

Ug Lee

I find that I get the most out of seminars a few months after the event. I will be working on something and then something will just click and I will realise what the person was talking about at the seminar.