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NapmaArticlesDisplaying Results 1 - 15 for napmaHow to Determine Your Retention ... students you enrolled each month for a year go?” When I started the National Association of Professional Martial Artists (NAPMA), I was always amazed at how many members judged the value of the service solely on how good our ad was that ... Read The Core Dynamics of Starting a Martial Arts Business ... way of running a martial arts business other than the system they had inherited from their instructor, which we know is usually a recipe for disaster. NAPMA gave you a way to learn how to run a black belt school. Martial Arts Professional ... Read Know Your Voice ... this book. Century has brought three personal lawsuits against me now in addition to an earlier suit that drove NAPMA into bankruptcy. The owner of Century says that he sues me to keep me out of mischief. Still, losing NAPMA to Century ... Read Can You Really Teach Confidence? ... in the bank. This is also why I introduced Bill Kipp, Peyton Quinn, CDT, and Krav Maga to the industry at my NAPMA World Conferences. These guys were the leaders in realistic self defense, and I knew that many instructors, like me, were ... Read Black Belt EyesIn the early months of NAPMA, my art director Scott Kelby and I created a black-and-white ad of a student throwing a great jump side kick under a great headline, “Kids Don’t Seem to Mind Our Summer School.” The ad was a big hit. Schools ... Read The Genesis of the Core Dynamics ... took me under his wing and made me a protégé. But, as the head of the world’s largest martial arts professional association (NAPMA), I’ve heard countless horror stories of master instructors abusing the loyalty of their top students. Guess ... Read Your Personal Identity: How Do You Define Yourself ... usually with a bunch of black belts. It wasn’t until I launched the National Association of Professional Martial Artists (NAPMA) in 1993 that I began to realize that, while martial arts helped me to reinvent myself identity, the job was ... Read Turning Dead Time Into Success Time ... on my board. Tony Robbins was on my TV show five times and did a 4-minute keynote address for me at my final NAPMA World Conference for no charge. I tell you this not to brag, but to inspire you to realize that what I’m teaching you works ... Read Curriculum Design: The Recipe Book for Your Martial Arts SchoolI had lunch recently with a fourth dan in Uechi Ryu. We talked about how the Eastern mind-set is so different from the Western, and the confusion that creates for many instructors. Culturally, the East is more about conformity, or as I ... Read Is Owning a Martial Arts School Right For You?I knew from my first night in white belt class on February 12, 1974, at age 13, that I was going to do martial arts for the rest of my life. I was teaching professionally by age 16 and have been teaching ever since. However, I never wanted ... Read Fine-turning Your Martial Arts CurriculumLet me walk you through the processes that I went through to change the recipe of my curriculum. At first, it’s not easy to make wholesale changes to your program. We have a strong connection to many of these techniques and forms. However, ... Read A Tale of Two CurriculumsWhen I opened my school, I presented the exact curriculum that I was raised on. Among the many problems that created for me was that I had a lot more kids in my school than my instructors did. Martial arts forms, hyungs, or kata were ... Read How to Make Cash Outs Work to Your School’s AdvantageIf you can keep a steady flow of new students coming in, an ideal situation is high cash outs and high monthly billing. This is being accomplished by some schools that take a somewhat unconventional approach to their cash out and upgrade ... Read Tuition Strategies: EasyPay and Electric Fund TransfersLarry Dokes’s EasyPay billing company pioneered the electronic funds transfer (EFT) in the early 1990s. Larry was an early mentor of mine and has helped me a great deal. Based in Belton, Texas, EasyPay specializes in smaller schools in ... Read The Motivational Daycare CenterAs stated in one of my previous articles, I don’t feel that the movement towards character development has been bad for martial arts schools. Actually, it’s been great. On the other hand, when schools drift away from their core values, ... Read Searches related to: napma
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