Are You Guilty of Teaching Martial Arts Like This? I Was For a Decade.Martial arts does not encourage free-thinking, but the pursuit of success requires it. Most schools do not have a plan to teach sparring or defense or the plan is based on flawed hand-me-down...
It's crucial to understand what habits you're teaching your students. Teaching them complex moves won't be as helpful if they need to defend themselves in the real world. What if you could do both? The idea of that is appealing to me, but it's not realistic. For...
This Video Exposes One Of The Major Gaps Kata Creates In Striking In The Ring Or In The Street.When teaching martial arts students sparring, it's critical to understand the habits you're creating. When virtually every technique of traditional kata contradicts...
The block that convinced me to stop teaching it.Please read this objectively as you can. Some martial artists are easily insulted, which is not the purpose of this article. The goal is to stimulate thought and discussion. As martial arts professionals, most of us...
From about 1984 - to 1993, I had a cable TV show, USA Karate. In 1992, I drove over to Orlando to interview Tony Robbins, who had recently earned his black belt from Jhoon Rhee. Tony was conducting his Fear Into Power weekend seminar that concluded with everyone,...
From the MATA Professional Martial Arts Instructor Certification Course Module 1-Lesson 1: Four Keys to Giving Clear Directions 1. Specific. Effective directions are specific. They focus on manageable and precisely describe actions that martial arts students can...
How an Inadvertent Lack of Integrity isSabotaging Your Student Retention Martial Arts Student Retention is important because it's much less expensive to keep the students you have rather than spending time and money recruiting new students to replace the dropouts....
This is the longer version. The short version can be watched here. The two biggest names in martial arts, Bruce Lee and Joe Lewis in a fascinating "Teach-Off." Each of them will teach and demonstrate a sidekick on the body shield. There is a huge difference in how...
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