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MATA TV – How to Teach Martial Arts-Joe Lewis and Bruce Lee “Teach Off”
By John Graden on Tuesday, June 7th, 2011 | No Comments
Tony Robbins Explains How He Uses Hypnosis to Help
By John Graden on Tuesday, May 17th, 2011 | No Comments
Recently, I devoted a few episodes of Martial Arts Teachers TV to the application of NLP and hypnosis to enhance a martial arts instructors influence and leadership. Each of those shows had four times as many viewers as any of the other episodes. Clearly, there is a tremendous amount of interest in subject so [...]
Read More...Self-Defense Instructors: Do You Know What the 21-Foot Rule Is?
By John Graden on Tuesday, January 18th, 2011 | No Comments
Do you know what the 21-foot rule is? From Cobra-Defense Founder Chris Sutton: “The 21-foot Rule – Most men with a knife can close a 21 foot distance and stab you before you can pull your gun from its holster or a purse and fire a shot. We trained diligently on this in Law Enforcement [...]
Read More...Forget Everything You Know About Exercise
By John Graden on Friday, January 14th, 2011 | No Comments
Tim Ferris is a smart guy. You may know him as the author of the bestseller “The 4-Hour Week.”. His new book is “The 4-Hour Body” will help you lose weight, have great sex, and get stronger.
Read More...Is Your Martial Arts School Guilty of False Advertising?
By John Graden on Wednesday, December 1st, 2010 | 3 Comments
I also see a lot of instructors who couldn’t defend themselves from a harsh wind advertising self-defense to the public and to me that is false advertising.
Read More...How to Teach Sparring
By John Graden on Saturday, November 27th, 2010 | 1 Comment
PERSONAL CONTACT VS. FULL CONTACT By John Graden Few areas of training can define martial arts spirit more clearly than sparring. From 1984 until about 1989, I was training three times a week in a dark, dirty boxing gym with American karate legend Joe Lewis, the retired world heavyweight kickboxing champion. The only reason we [...]
Read More...Will You Help Me Write My New Book “How to Teach Martial Arts”?
By John Graden on Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010 | 2 Comments
Enter your name and email (optional mobile number is for text alerts) into the box to the right and you will be notified when my new book, How to Teach Martial Arts is ready.
Read More...Establishing Your Martial Arts Schools’ Standard of Excellence
By John Graden on Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010 | 1 Comment
What do you expect from your martial arts students? Do you want your martial arts students to be excellent?
Read More...What I Hate in Martial Arts Classrooms
By John Graden on Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 | 1 Comment
If you shower your martial arts students with, Awesome! Very Good! Excellent! why would they put anymore effort into their martial arts training?
Read More...Martial Arts Marketing Strategy For Local High School
By John Graden on Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 | No Comments
This is a great martial arts school strategy that will put your school at the top of awareness for your local high schools. Just launching this site will gain media attention from the mainstream and all of the schools participating. Here’s how it works. Though many people are high school sports crazy, there usually isn’t [...]
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