Martial Arts Education

This month, we are going to examine the “prison bully” story told in last month’s article such that we can profit from its lessons in self-defense. We first need to realize that while those events occurred in the crucible of prison life, the lessons they teach aply to human conflict in any environment. All of ...

When someone calls and inquires about your martial art fitness programming, how do you handle the call? I’ve found that this is probably the biggest challenge most school owners face, when selling their fitness programming. They’ll run an ad to make the phone ring, but have no idea what to say when they have a ...

Last month, we discussed implementing a health screening evaluation for your new students. When they sign up for classes, have a form ready for them to fill out that asks a variety of questions. The answers they provide will give you a clear picture of the potential health risk factors unique to them, such a ...

The air on the Santa Monica pier is usually alive with the emissions of countless biological organisms, giving it that fresh, faintly fish-smelling sourness that lets you know that you’re in the midst of life; and this despite the fact that tons of raw sewage are dumped from there into the Pacific Ocean every day. ...

When I started teaching the martial arts years ago, the one label I thought my school needed to avoid more than any other label was “most expensive school in town.” I felt that charging top dollar for teaching the arts was an apostasy. I was convinced that expensive schools could not possibly have the same ...

Somewhere in the middle of rushing between activities, places and people, somewhere in the crevices of our wall-to-wall work schedules, there is the time we take for ourselves. This is when we do something a little extra for ourselves-perhaps a hobby or simply to relax and focus our minds to reorganize our thoughts. A little ...

The reason so many martial arts schools have trouble teaching effective fitness kickboxing is because conventional martial arts and fitness kickboxing are two completely different animals. Teaching conventional martial arts has very little to do with teaching martial arts fitness. The elements of a good fitness kickboxing class are not the same as a conventional ...

If you do not let the public know who you are, where you are located and the products and services you offer, then don’t expect them to become students. This may seem so basic as not to require mentioning, but it is a little more complicated. What I mean is communicating the right information to ...

  If discipline is mentoring someone, then don’t you think self-discipline must be accepting that vision for your self? When the alarm goes off in the morning, it is self-discipline that makes you get up and go to work or school. It used to be your mom or dad. They were your Disciplinarian/Mentor, but now ...

I want to relate some of the very powerful effects that adrenal stress has on the human mind and body. As an instructor, you must understand how the adrenal reaction can affect a student’s ability to defend himself during an actual encounter. We ask applicants to our RMCAT self-defense course if they have ever been ...