What have you achieved this year as far as your karate school goes? Have you achieved your goals? I hope you just didn’t say to yourself, “Goals? What goals?”Did you exceed them or fall short? It’s this time of the year I start to think about how my karate school has performed over the last […]

Last night I moved 4 of my junior students up to my adult karate class. My adult class is usually restricted to those 15 years and up, but I had to make an exception for these four (all are 13 and 14 years old). The reason for the move was that 2 of them were […]

Many karate instructors are of the belief that they are the *only* instructor who can teach at their school. They believe that nobody can do as good a job as them, therefore they are very reluctant to let anyone else teach. This is the classic “technician” mindset that Michael Gerber, author of The E-myth, describes. […]