Tag Archives: Business

Organizing Your Martial Arts Business with a Plan

After you’ve written your business plan and organized the necessary components for your venture: Personnel, finances, methods and procedures, materials and so on.  Wait, what methods and procedures?             Here is an important aspect of business we must talk about.  A method is a means by which in the business sense is a way to get things done.  As a ...

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Learning to Delegate Authority in Your Martial Arts Studio

            Being martial artists we’ve been taught by a series of goal attainments or levels of achievement. We’ve attained status in the studio pecking order according to the color of material about our middles and hopefully haven’t allowed our ego’s to override our common sense. If you’ve reigned in your ego and are about to ...

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Knowing Your Value & Setting the Right Price in Your Studio

KNOW YOUR VALUE AND CHARGE FOR IT What Makes a Studio Successful? We have carefully studied what makes a studio’s success above average in the sale of programs.  In general, successful studios focus their resources on developing a specific market don’t try to sell to everyone Prospect for business rather than waiting for it to come to them we thought ...

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Defining Your Martial Arts Business Marketing Strategy

The way your business will survive is by selling the goods and services you offer. marketing them is the key to success.  That’s why a plan setting out just what your sales goals are is so important. The first of these steps on how to create your own martial arts business marketing strategy is your image and the image of ...

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Controlling Your Martial Arts Studio Membership Cost

Controlling Membership Costs in Your Martial Arts Studio The need to keep up with the amount of attendance is necessary in any educational system.  Attendance can alter a marginal decision on a testing grade or alert the instructor that further communication may be necessary if a student apparently becomes inactive.  There are several methods of recording a student’s attendance that will ...

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KEMPO NO RITSUDO TO NAGARE THE RHYTHM AND FLOW OF THE FIST LAW OF FIGHTING

James Masayoshi Mitose was the first person to teach Kempo in the territory of the United States. His training in Kempo combined the Mitose family art of Kosho Ryu Kempo Jujutsu which was very Japanese in orientation and included training in the Koga method of Ninjutsu. He also received training in Shorei Ryu Kempo Karate of Okinawa, it is believed from his maternal uncle, Choki Motobu.

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KAN-THE INTUITIVE MIND OF THE MARTIAL ARTIST

In the Japanese martial arts terminology the term Kan is many times overlook by instructors of all types. Some say that the modern styles which have been created since the Meiji Restoration cannot possibly have developed this attribute due to the emphasis on competition. Yet this is an unfair assumption in that it is not so much the style that creates the concept of Kan, but rather the individual instructors personal knowledge and understanding of the concept.

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Butoku – Martial Virtues

Without virtues there are no martial arts. This is one of the most important lessons that all martial arts instructors should teach their students. Being from a Kempo background it is easy to see the inherent truth in this statement, in that the very creation of Kempo stems from this idea. Looking at the beginning statement from a historical point of view gives it credence for the martial artists of the past and the present.

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