So last week we finished up our 3 day summer camp.<\/p>\n
18 students attended the camp that ran 4 hours per day from 9am – 1pm. The camp was a huge success, with all the junior attendees raving to other class mates about how much fun it was, and telling them about what they learned.<\/p>\n
It was enormous fun teaching it too – it was a little more relaxed than regular class, and all students were pretty much equal when it came to the content. Basically I taught 9 hours of judo and grappling technique and 3 hours of escrima.<\/p>\n
By the end of the 3 days, my students learned valuable techniques outside the scope of their usual curriculum, that complemented their karate striking skills. They now have a basic understanding of how to throw, pin, and lock up an opponent. Plus add in a few strikes and counter measures with a stick and they’re starting to develop some excellent martial art skills.<\/p>\n
From a business point of view what was most interesting was the BOND my junior students formed with each other over those 12 hours. Higher grades interacted well with beginners in a different environment where they all were pretty much of the same skill level. New friendships formed and existing friendships were strengthened. I got to know my students better too and we all had a great time.<\/p>\n
This is key to long term retention of students – i.e. The emotional bond they have with you as an instructor and the bond they have with fellow students.<\/em><\/p>\n Look for ways to always increase the comradery between your students and offer special programs every now and again to develop those relationships. Each year I do several special events with my students that gives them the feeling that they belong to something more than just a gym where they train.<\/p>\n Get to know your students and families, and you’ll develop a strong club with a great reputation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So last week we finished up our 3 day summer camp. 18 students attended the camp that ran 4 hours per day from 9am – 1pm. The camp was a huge success, with all the junior attendees raving to other class mates about how much fun it was, and telling them about what they learned. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}