As some of you are aware, I take karate. Nice little habit - I mean hobby - I’ve got. I also help teach.
One of the rules is that if you aren’t the head instructor for the location, you aren’t supposed to answer questions. And if you aren’t the assigned teacher, don’t interrupt.
My problem - by nature I have this strong inclination to be helpful. That means if I think I know the answer I want to speak up. If someone asks me a question, I want to try to answer it. If a buddy of mine (who ranked up with me) is teaching and I recall something about the instruction that he isn’t mentioning, some detail that makes it easier to remember or was overlooked, I want to point it out to the others. Alas, this is not good.
See sometimes the head instructors are privy to instructions that the rest of us aren’t given. Sometimes the teaching methods are changed. And it generally isn’t good to “bail out” a new instructor, but let him do it on his own, so he learns how to teach the group, and retains the authority of the position.
Okay, so I know this (now). It makes sense. Yet I still can’t shut up.
That’s all.
I have to say, karate or not- if you aren’t teaching a class, you should keep quiet until class is over. If you want to bring up a point to someone after or clarify something you feel strongly about, that is the time.
I was a computer instructor, and NOTHING is more annoying then someone interrupting while you’re talking to tell a classmate a “better” (different) way of doing things. Twice I had to send a class on an unscheduled break to speak to someone about this. If you are not the teacher, you are not the talker, end of story in my book. It’s disruptive, and undermines the instructors position. (I’m not talking about correcting an inaccuracy here. That’s different to me)
Why don’t you become an instructor? Sounds like you have a lot of knowledge you’re anxious to share! That is one big factor that makes someone a good instructor. (In my opinion)
Zette 
Just shut your trap Irishman. I’ve never been around you when you didn’t just talk non-stop. Blah blah blah blah blah. It gets old ok! We’re tired of it, but nobody else has been able to tell you you. Well, no more. I’m making a stand for the DFW Dopers now. Just shut up!
Miss me? 
. . . for my shirt, to helpful for my shirt, so helpful it hurts!
I’m too helpful for Milan, too helpful for Milan, New York and Japan!
Well, if you are that good in Karate, I’m not about to tell you to stop.
That’s why god invented projectile weaponry. Let’s see your foot stop a .50 caliber sniper rifle, Irish. Bwahahaha.
::leaves to go find a gun thread::
Zette, you’re right. Nothing more annoying than someone who is too helpful. And as I said, I also teach. Just not every time.
Basically I was posting this thread to help reinforce it to myself.
Aglarond, you must not have seen “The Adventures of Remo Williams.” I move like the breeze. You won’t know I’m there until it’s too late. Besides, you’ll be too drunk to shoot straight. 
Ever see ‘Drunken Master’? That’s me, but with a gun.
Disclaimer: I do not condone the use of guns while drinking or drinking while using guns or any other combinations of the above words.