Pilates Instructor Insurance Is Mandatory
As a Pilates instructor, it is quiet likely for you to get hurt or get an injury. Imagine this while performing or demonstrating one of the Pilates exercise and trying to perfect it, you pull a muscle. This could be true too while helping a student and the student is hurt, he can sue you for the same. How do you protect yourself? Pilates Instructor Insurance pay up for medical bills and protects you from financial losses.
When you are working with an organization, which is owned by someone else, their insurance does not cover you and will not protect you. Most gyms, studios and schools require to have your own insurance.
For you to be eligible of /instructor insurance, it is important that you have completed a certified training program and must provide a copy of your training while applying for insurance. To facilitate and help the instructors completely to protect themselves, their business and even their family against any consequences, insurance companies cover and protect you at a competitive rate.
1. General Liability insurance: It protects you from financial loss. If a student is injured and sues you for negligence, if not insured with this policy, you will have to pay for losses from your own pocket. This insurance takes care of such loses occurred.
2. Personal injury liability insurance: Protects you against suits involving libel, slander or wrongful invasion of privacy.
3. Product liability insurance: Insures your apparatus. The aggregate limit is $ 100000.
4. Miscellaneous professional liability insurance: Protects against bodily injury arising out of rendering or failing to render professional services.
5. Sexual abuse liability insurance: The insurance cover in such cases per occurrence is $ 100000 and $ 300000 is aggregate limit.
6. Professional indemnity: It indemnifies the insured against claims for compensation for breach of professional duty because of any negligence by the way of act, error, omission or misstatement or misleading advice. This insurance is must for Pilates instructor.
Pilates instructor need to renew their insurance prior to expiry. The registration of the insurance should be current at all times to maintain the currency of your insurance. It is the responsibility of the individual to maintain their insurance cover and no company will accept responsibility for a claim made during a period for which there is o cover. It is the responsibility of the Pilates instructors to advice their insurance company of any change of address so that notices can be sent in a timely fashion.
As a Pilates instructor, a malpractice lawsuit could be put on you when you had least expected it. At that critical moment, your Pilates Instructor Insurance will be the most reassuring thing. In today’s litigious society, professional insurance has become essential element of the business liability insurance portfolio. Professional liability insurance has broadened to include coverage for a wide range of professionals and students practicing in the healthcare related arena including Pilates Instructor Insurance.
Women In The Martial Arts
I was born in West London in 1963, my father was very involved in the martial arts and a dan grade in Karate he was also a dealer in ancient Japanese arms and armour, although my father has an antiques shop in London’s Bond Street, my home was more like a samurai warriors dressing room, with original suits of Japanese armour complete with very frighting face masks that would frighten the life out of my friends when ever they came to visit, there were also very many valuable swords yari and naginata spears.
The Masters
My father would travel around the world searching for the best quality weapons, what intrigued me the most as a child was all these strange visitors that would come to my home, the famous Otani family were regular visitors with Sensei Matsuro Otani 7th dan Judo the UK National Coach, Kenshiro Abbe Sensei, Tomio Otani Sensei the UK National Coach for Kendo, his visitors were like the who’s who of martial arts, as recently as two weeks ago I was pleased to meet with Sensei Kazuo Chiba 8th dan when he came to see my father.
Introduction to Aikido
As a child I did a little Karate with my father but nothing serious until 1992 when I went to the local Aikido dojo in Bracknell, Berkshire, UK. All those years with my father and his Japanese weapons must have had a latent but profound effect on me, as I watched Sensei Ellis teaching his Positive Style of Traditional Aikido I knew there and then that this was the martial art for me.
The Hard Training Begins
When I started Aikido I made a point of training with the men and they treated me as one of them. With regular practice I progressed. I had now developed the hard training bug and started courses in physical training and amateur weight lifting, after a few years of hard work I became a fully qualified fitness instructor-personal trainer and amateur weight lifting coach, the high light of all this effort was when Sensei Ellis promoted me to assistant coach of the Ellis Schools of Traditional Aikido (ESTA) two years later he promoted me to first lady assistant to himself, there had never ever been a lady assistant in all the long history of the ESTA, Sensei put me on a three month trial and 8 year on I am still here.
In 1994 I received my coaching certificate from the British Aikido Board (BAB) which is the governing body for Aikido in the UK. Once I became assistant to Sensei Ellis I became involved in assisting in teaching both men and women and also helping with the children’s classes.
The First Seminar
Sensei Ellis asked if I would like to take part in a very large and important seminar in Liverpool in the North of England, Sensei Ellis is not one of those teachers who has a pet uke follow him around to fly all over the mat at a touch or a glance, he prefers to try to involve all the students who attend his seminars if possible, knowing this I felt very privileged but nervous when Sensei told me there would be about 700 students from various martial arts, I think the phrase “Being thrown in at the deep end” is applicable here.
On arrival at the venue I was amazed to see so many students from so many countries, UK-France-Germany-Italy-India-Austria are just some that I can recall. Sensei Ellis was asked to take the first class of approximately 50 dan grades from various martial arts. Sensei had me demonstrate 100 press-ups on the backs of my wrists with fingers pointing both inwards and outwards. When I had finished and was in the raised position Sensei sat on my back (he did not warn me of this) and carried on with his lecture. Sensei suggested that those who wanted to should try this exercise. It was amazing to see all these black belts struggling. Later I had a little crowd around me wanting to inspect my wrists, I explained that this exercise is standard for both seniors and juniors in our schools.
I was now feeling a little more confident when Sensei pointed out that there were six young dan grades who had arrived late and were respectfully waiting for permission to come onto the mat. Sensei asked me to show them what we had been teaching so far, they were all wearing black gi’s and when I approached and invited them on the mat, they scowled as if to say “hey, we have not traveled all the way from London to be taught by a women” as I showed the first technique “nikkyo” a wrist locking action, the first guy tried to resist me, I applied the technique as shown to me so many times by Sensei and almost put him through the mat. I thought he would be upset with me, but as he got up he asked “How did you do that?”. He then wanted me to do the technique on all the others, now I had their attention and they were a great bunch of guy’s. I really enjoyed teaching them. At the end of the seminar, as we were leaving the hall to head for the car park, these six guy’s were waiting in a line and bowed to me simultaneously with a smile and said to Sensei Ellis ” You have a strong lady assistant there ,sensei” Sensei replied ” That is why she is my assistant”. That was my first seminar and one that I will never forget.
I have been involved in many other seminars with my Sensei and they were always good, but I was never so overawed as I was at my first one, or so I thought. Then Sensei Ellis asked if I would like to visit New Mexico in the USA for a seminar. The seminar was to be held in Alamogordo NM, where Sensei’s USA representative in the US lives and works at the Space Museum. Sensei visits New Mexico every year and we have another Ellis dan grade in Texas, Al Montemar. I had always wanted to visit the US and jumped at the opportunity. We made the trip into a vacation for friends and family. We taught members of the USAF and German Air Force at Holloman AFB, which included a guided tour of the base and various fighter aircraft, including the Stealth bomber. Sensei Rogers is an instructor who teaches students from the USAF, Highway Patrol, police and some members of the United States Marshals.
While in the US, I also visited the Grand Canyon and Phoenix. I intend to move to Phoenix to live within the next two to three years. Sensei Ellis has a book on aikido coming out next spring in the US titled “Positive Aikido” which I am pleased to be featured in, Sensei Rogers is a journalist by profession and has worked on this book for the past two years and it will be published in the US. There are several publishers interested in the book so we are all very excited about this latest project. I hope to be visiting the US again next year and I hope to be there for the launching of the book.
For the martial artists out there I would like to add one more comment about the proposed book. Where as most Aikido books spend a great deal of time harmonizing with the planets and the universe, there will be none of that in this book, Sensei always tells students to come out of the clouds and get back on the tatami because “This is where it all happens” and he also often says ” leave the dancing to Fred Astair” (who is Fred Astair?).
Anita Wilson
Assistant to Sensei Ellis
http://www.EllisAikido.org
http://www.geocities.com/britishaikido
About the Author: Anita Wilson a student/teacher of Aikido for 15 years, the first ever lady assistant to Sensei Henry Ellis a direct student of the legendary master Kenshiro Abbe Sensei.. Anita is also a highly qualified personal fitness training instructor, also a certified BALA weight training coach.
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The Everyday Benefits of Martial Arts Training
Some people feel martial arts training is just for those rare moments when you or a loved one is attacked, but what if martial arts could be used everyday of your life…?
Would that interest you more? Is being more aware of your surrounding, faster, stronger, better balanced, better reflexes and the ability to think clearly under stress important to you?
Then martial arts is the perfect activity for you! Warning, always consult with a physician before engaging in any physical activities. Let me tell you about some of my personal experiences that could benefit you….
Environment Awareness
Spend some time with surprise attack drills and multiple attack drills and see if that doesn’t increase the overall awareness of your environment.
Faster
I have good reflexes, but I’ve also just become plain faster. Part of my increase in speed I must credit to the Honolulu Sparring Club. A bunch of great tournament fighters who taught me how to look stupid by not letting me get away with things in which I had become accustom to getting away.
Training with people faster than you and doing speed drills will increase your overall speed.
Stronger
I am definitely stronger from some of the solo martial arts drills I’ve developed and practice.
The strength itself comes not only the expected places, arms, legs etc., but to unusual places as well. For example, my inverters and everters, which are the muscles which turn my ankles in and out, gained strength from executing multiple kicks while balancing on one foot. I’ve taken steps off unseen curbs and into unseen holes that should have sprained my ankle, but it just doesn’t happen. My back is stronger too from back kicks.
Better Balanced
As you read earlier, executing multiple kicks is a great balance exercise. I seem to feel my center of gravity better than the average person. I also attribute this to evasive drills. Even if I do trip I catch myself.
Better Reflexes
There’s a difference between being faster and having faster reflexes. A reflex is a reaction to a stimulus. A reflex can be learned or involuntary. Pulling your hand away from heat would be an example of an involuntary reflex. A learned reflex, which is what I’m discussing here, is gained through repetitive movement such as a factory worker who screws on the same nut and bolt and passes it on. Eventually this movement, through repetition, is sent to a lower part of the brain closer to the spinal cord. A learned reflex is also referred to using a very inaccurate term muscle memory. Muscles have electrical and chemical reactions, not memories. The proper term is learned reflex.
Although reflexes are primarily specific to the activity you’re practicing, martial arts has such a wide variety of reactions trained within us, I personally find myself reacting quickly to anything from leaping out of the way of a car in which the moron is turning right while looking left at traffic or catching a pen before it hits the floor.
I find both blocking drills and evasive drills excellent drills for increasing reaction time or learned reflex speed.
Thinking Under Stress
It’s dark. I’m traveling down highway 16 in Illinois with a female friend of mine. The car ahead of me is going awful slow.
NO WAIT!
IT’S STOPPED!
I slam on the breaks then begin pumping them to maintain control of the car.
I’M NOT GOING TO MAKE IT!
I veer left and avoid the car while breaking.
ANOTHER CAR STOPPED IN THE LEFT LANE!
I veer right to avoid that car, finally stopping.
The emergencies over, my body was relaxed, yet ready to spring into action, my adrenaline was pumping. I made note of these physiological responses as though I were a third party looking inside myself. All these emergency functions subsided in 30 seconds to one minute after we had stopped safely.
My friend on the other hand couldn’t settle down for half the night.
But wait, I told you everyday uses right? I’d be a pretty bad driver if I did that everyday. The same exact training, to think clearly under stress, is used every day at work. Deadlines and sales presentations, the ability to think clearly and outside of the box are not only a part of martial arts training, they’re a sign of leadership abilities!
Conclusion
Yes, you can find other activities to give you all of these everyday benefits, but there is not one single activity that I can think of which encompasses all of these benefits into one activity AND teaches you to protect the physical and mental shape in which you’re trying to stay.
Jujitsu – The Art Of Self-Protection
One of the most ancient of the martial arts in the world is Jujitsu Jujutsu (also jujitsu, ju jitsu, ju jutsu, or jiu jitsu; itis a Japanese martial art developed on the battlefields of feudal Japan by the legendary Samurai warriors
The meaning of jutsu is “art, practice,” and do means “principle” or “way,” the Way being the concept of life itself. Jujutsu may be translated as “the gentle art”
Jiu Jitsu is an excellent form of self defence and is based on a wide and versatile range of techniques including locks, strikes and throws. In the past, Jujitsu techniques had been designed for action against men in armor and were greatly restricted. The older Jujitsu techniques were not designed to be used against a person in street clothes. The concept of off balancing one’s opponent and using one’s body in an efficient manner was also a new concept to martial arts.
What is Kyu-Shin-Do ?
The theory of KYU – SHIN – DO What is KyuShinDo ?
And more precisely what it isn’t !! Kenshiro Abbe Sensei 1915 – 1985 by Henry Ellis Kyu = Desire – Yearn – Sphere – Circle – Search – Study. Shin = Heart – New – Spirit – True – To be true to ones self. Do = Way or Path , a way of life or self discipline . I honestly believe that Kyu-Shin-Do has lost its true path in Britain and has become many things to many people.
What is KyuShinDo ? and more Precisely what it is not !
Kyu = Desire – Yearn – Sphere – Circle – Search – Study.
Shin = Heart – New – Spirit – True – To be true to ones self.
Do = Way or Path , a way of life or self discipline.
I honestly believe that Kyu-Shin-Do has lost its true path in Britain and has become many things to many people. Kenshiro Abbe Sensei came to Britain in 1955 at the invitation of the London Judo Society ( LJS ). He considered the Judo that he saw to be too concerned with strength, also too physical and hard. It was his intent to introduce his theory of Kyu-Shin-Do to the British Judoka. They in turn found it hard to understand that if they followed his teaching of Kyu-Shin-Do Judo which he himself had studied from as early as 1940 their own Judo skills would become stronger by technique rather than strength. Abbe Sensei would often say when speaking of KyuShinDo that “one must have the right mind “. On one occasion he lined up 31 Judoka dan grades, he walked along the line and informed each Judoka what technique he would use, and whether it would be left of right handed. Abbe Sensei then proceeded to throw each and every single one of the 31 students just as he had said. It is worth being reminded that Abbe Sensei was 40 years of age at that time.