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Chet Holmes: How to Pack Your School Using the Stadium Pitch

Chet HolmesHow to Pack Your School Using the Stadium Pitch

A karate master who studied and taught karate for twenty-three years, Chet Holmes worked with more than sixty of the Fortune 500 companies before turning his method on smaller businesses. The stadium pitch — leading with education rather than an offer, so that the room qualifies itself — is the core of this interview, applied to filling a martial arts school.

The original recording of this interview is not currently available online. The record is published here so the interview remains part of the magazine’s documented archive; the audio will be restored to this page if the master is recovered.

This interview was conducted for Martial Arts Professional, the trade magazine the National Association of Professional Martial Artists has published since 1996, and appeared in the magazine’s interview series. It is republished here as part of the magazine’s archive. The original recording date is not stated in the surviving archive record.

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Grand Master Stephen Oliver, MBA, is a 10th Degree Black Belt and the Founder and CEO of Mile High Karate and Martial Arts Wealth Mastery, one of the martial arts industry's leading coaching and consulting organizations for professional martial arts school owners, BJJ academies, and MMA gyms. A martial arts school owner since 1975 and business coach since 1985, Oliver has spent more than five decades building, operating, and advising successful martial arts schools. He also serves as CEO and Chairman of NAPMA (the National Association of Professional Martial Artists) and Publisher of Martial Arts Professional magazine. A Georgetown University cum laude graduate, he earned his Executive MBA through the Executive Program at the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver. He was promoted to 10th Degree Black Belt in April 2026 and inducted into the Tae Kwon Do Hall of Fame in August 2026. Learn more at MartialArtsWealth.com and StephenCOliver.com.

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