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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The MATA Certification was authored by 18 different veteran black belts who are also experts in their respective fields such as law, psychology, pedagogy, movement science, motivation, and communication.
Do you think people are attracted to a complex martial arts curriculum with a dozen kata, blocks, and stances to remember?
Each year, we look at the number of martial arts schools in the USA to determine if the number of schools is growing or declining and why.
Enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and dedicated are just some of the positive words to describe Josh Waltzing, the 2019 MATA Instructor of the Year.
This is a sample lesson from our MATA Certification Program. By John Graden From 1984 until about 1989, I was training three times a week in a dark, dirty boxing gym with retired world heavyweight kickboxing champion Joe Lewis. The only reason we would miss the...
Martial arts journalist John Corcoran was a walking encyclopedia on American martial arts history. He was a mentor to John Graden.
The NFL of Self-Defense Business Organizations In February of this year, the Alliance of American Football (AAF) debuted and then closed up shop last month. Why? The product was inferior to the NFL or College Football. My wife called the AAF flag football. Most...
Escape the Jail Cell of Style I recently posted this “Fighting Form” from our Empower Kickboxing program on Facebook. I designed the forms in the late 1990s to replace the traditional TKD forms I practiced and taught since 1974. While the video didn’t quite go...
Former Concrete Company Manager Grateful for COBRA and MATA It’s a classic American success story. Sidney Burns of Bedford, VA, has grown from a karate crazed 8-year old to a master instructor with a well-established school and a year-old COBRA-Defense location that...
“I am an old school “tae kwon do” instructor. Everything Mr. Graden said about the complexity of teaching traditional karate was true.
I switched over to Empower Kickboxing when COVID hit. Teaching Empower Kickboxing helped me retain students over COVID and online.
I didn’t lose one student because of the transition. They all loved the new curriculum.
I cut my teaching hours in half and I no longer have to do intros.
This has allowed me to create a unique brand to separate us from other schools.“
Mr. Geno Guevara
Alamo Ranch Martial Arts
