Scenario-what is important?

As many of you know, I'm writing down everything I know about scenario training. I'm thinking about making a book of it. It's a hard process and easy at the same time. The first part of just getting things written down seems easy, but I can already see that there are overlaps and inconsistency of what parts to be first. Not to talk about pictures and drawings that are consistence with each other.

My experience started all the way back in 1988, when I went into Aalborg Selvforsvars & JuJitsuKlub. A dojo that had realistic training in their program, where we some times went out in the local parks and did reaction training. This consisted of a route through the park were the students were scattered on different posts. One post would be a strangle  another just a sobbing woman, another would be a knife attack were some were fully view able while others were more predator types either by persuasion or ambush behind a bush were you couldn't see them).

Us teachers would walk the student through the route, knowing the attacks, and could evaluate on the 3 phases of a physical conflict.

This training sometimes was taken into the dojo, so everybody could learn from the different aspects; successes and the less successful.

As time has past, and I got older, many different ways of training scenario have been tried, both old and new. Books, videos and meeting with different teachers have given much information to work with. With all this information there is one basic question that is important; what is it REALLY you want to learn from what you are doing(the scenario your are to embark on)? With out this you might just be thinking about the scenario in your sofa at home, nice and comfortable without you really learning anything.

To many teachers just put up a sequence of situations and call them scenario training, which isn't totatly wrong, but isn't more than the first step; the recognition of a scenario. As see in Blooms taxonomy this is only the basics - being able to comprehend, but there is no learning or understanding and most important no working on how to use this. real learning comes when focusing on what you want to learn, and need to learn.

So next time you step into a scenario pratice, make sure what you want to learn and at what level.