The Program That Turns Skeptical Parents Into Raving Fans! Besides actually getting students through your front door, what's the biggest challenge any martial arts school owner can face? That's right-it's student retention! As you know, maintaining a high student retention rate is the key to long-term success as a martial art school owner. If you teach kids, your clients are their parents, plain and simple. But how do you turn skeptical moms and dads into raving fans? It's easy, when you know how. In my new book, "Martial Arts Character Education Lesson Plans for Children: A Complete 16-Week Curriculum for Teaching Character Values and Life Skills in Your Martial Art School", I'll reveal to you my secrets for turning every parent who walks through your doors into a raving fan. In this book you'll get my complete 12-week character education curriculum. Plus you'll discover why character education programs are in such high demand, how to build your credibility as a community role model, and how to use this program to keep students ages 4-12 around for the long haul. This program will bring you higher student retention and make you a rock star in your community. Get your copy today!

"Martial Arts Character Education Lesson Plans for Children" is a complete 16-Week curriculum for teaching character values and life skills in your martial art school! Written by "Small Dojo Big Profits" author Mike Massie, it is the exact same character education program he has used in his own studios for two decades to maintain sky-high retention rates... and now you can too. If you're tired of seeing your students come and go because parents under-value your programs, you must read this book. Find out how to become a rock star in your town and shoot your retention through the roof.

Teaching is an art. Effective martial arts teachers must not only be competent practitioners but must also develop the communication and interpersonal skills of any good teacher. In this collection, twenty-six experienced martial arts teachers discuss the process of learning and teaching a martial art, from the 'nuts and bolts' of teaching technique to the philosophical underpinnings of training.

Whether you are an established martial arts instructor, about to set up your first club, or are an assistant instructor helping with warm-ups and cooldowns, the range of games and drills in this book will help bring energy and fun to your classes.4th dan black belt, FL Allman has included 101 easy warm-ups, pad work and kick shield drills, blocker drills, tag games, kata drills and sparring drills to create a valuable resource for those involved in coaching children's karate, taekwondo, and kickboxing. Each drill or game is accompanied by clear and concise instructions making it easy to implement them in your own club or adapt them to your own style.

For over a decade, Small Dojo Big Profits has guided martial arts instructors through the risky yet highly rewarding process of starting and running a highly successful and profitable martial art school. Eschewing the conventional wisdom that says you must have a huge school with 300 or more students to be financially successful, the author instead shows you how to take on less risk while working smarter and not harder by running a lean, mean, efficient martial arts studio operation. Author Mike Massie has started three successful martial arts studios from scratch, and has the distinction of opening his first studio with no start-up capital, zero credit, and in a town where he was a complete stranger. Yet, he was able to go from teaching in part-time locations to running his own full-time studio in under a year, and he achieved this while staying in profit from month one. The process he followed is the same one this book is based upon, and this updated version of Small Dojo Big Profits also draws on the author's experience in starting and growing two more successful studios during the recent mortgage crisis and economic recession. A common sense martial arts school start-up and business operations manual, this completely updated version of the classic martial arts business guide is perfect for anyone who wants to maintain their integrity while building a successful martial art school. If you're looking for the best source of complete information for starting, launching, growing, and running a martial art school from scratch, this is it.

The Martial Arts Instructor's Toolbox is an indispensable tool for every martial arts instructor.Mr. Kovar shares the keys to becoming an outstanding martial arts teacher. He starts by outlining the ideal mindset for instructors before they step on the mat. He goes into detail on 16 essential teaching techniques, tactics and tools that will make every martial arts instructor better at their craft.The middle section of the book takes your skills to the next level, focusing on topics such as dealing with challenging children and parent/student communications. In the final section of the book, Mr. Kovar dedicates 17 chapters to sharing some of the most valuable lessons he's learned in over 30 years of teaching martial arts.The Martial Arts Instructor's Toolbox is your manual for becoming a great martial arts instructor. By following Mr. Kovar's teaching systems, even a novice instructor can quickly develop into a highly competent professional martial arts instructor.Learn more about Mr. Kovar's systems for running a successful martial arts school at www.KovarSystems.com

Martial Arts and Well-Being explores how martial arts as a source of learning can contribute in important ways to health and well-being, as well as provide other broader social benefits. Using psychological and sociological theory related to behaviour, ritual, perception and reality construction, the book seeks to illustrate, with empirical data, how individuals make sense of and perceive the value of martial arts in their lives. This book draws on data from over 500 people, across all age ranges, and powerfully demonstrates that participating in martial arts can have a profound influence on the construction of behaviour patterns that are directly linked to lifestyle and health. Making individual connections regarding the benefits of practice, improvements to health and well-being – regardless of whether these improvements are ‘true’ in a medical sense – this book offers an important and original window into the importance of beliefs to health and well-being as well as the value of thinking about education as a process of life-long learning. This book will be of great interest to a range of audiences, including researchers, academics and postgraduate students interested in sports and exercise psychology, martial art studies and health and well-being. It should also be of interest to sociologists, social workers and martial arts practitioners. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315448084, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.