Teaching & Curriculum
Curriculum design, class structure, ranking and testing, kids and adult programs, and the craft of instruction on the mat.
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Promoting Safety in Martial Arts Fitness Classes
1) Make sure that everyone who enters your fitness classes is properly screened to ensure that they are physically capable…
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Stepping Off the High Horse
Recently, I’ve been thinking about the difference between the relationships I’ve established with my current students and how I previously…
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Controversial Exercises, Part 6
In this series of columns, I’ve addressed the topic of so-called controversial exercises that many martial arts instructors have been…
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The Adrenal-Pump Factor, Part 1
Some years ago, I was at a major “contact” Karate tournament that had attracted fighters from across the country for…
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Beware of your Comfort Zone
People study martial arts for many worthwhile reasons, which is entirely separate from the desire to acquire self-defense skills. There’s…
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Dealing With Forcible Rape
Last month, I noted that our academic school systems operate on the premise that “nothing is worth fighting for.” This…
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Capturing Your Share of the Adult Self-Defense Market, Part 12
For most martial artists, the most challenging aspect of self-defense in the real world is to know when to use…
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Controversial Exercises, Part 5
If you’ve been a martial artist for very long, then you know that many of the “old-timers” seem to have…
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Controversial Exercises, Part 4
There has been a long-running dispute among the “experts” about certain exercises used in many fitness workout routines. Some say…
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Black Belt Testing
At our school, we just finished a black belt test with 48 students, of whom five were testing for 2nd…
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