Month: August 2011

teaching karate

Teaching Karate with 100% Effort

August 30, 2011
Jason Stanley
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As an instructor of not only students but other karate teachers, one of the important points I drive home is the need to demonstrate with 100% effort, good form and speed. Too often it seems that teachers get lazy in demonstrating their karate techniques. Their explanation might be good and sound but the actual demonstration […]

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Karate Customer Service

August 23, 2011
Jason Stanley
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It surprises me to no end how many martial arts instructors want a full time dojo so badly but have struggled for years unable to grow their student count to more than 20 students. And then when they finally go full time they end up folding faster than poker legend Doyle Brunson holding a deuce, […]

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Kosokun Dai / Unsu Jump Exercise…

August 3, 2011
Jason Stanley
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So first off my apologies… it’s been a while since my last post and I’ve had several people ask me if I’m still writing this blog. The good news is, yes I am – have just been extremely busy over the summer. One of the reasons I’ve had little time to post is that I’ve […]