{"id":7,"date":"2005-12-21T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karateteaching.uploadmysite.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2013-12-22T14:47:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T22:47:14","slug":"the-best-christmas-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/the-best-christmas-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"The best Christmas gift&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These last few months have been sooo busy.<\/p>\n<p>Our dojo that we moved into in September 2004 no longer supported the increasing student base, so for the last few months I&#8217;ve been busy looking, negotiating and finally moving into our new club.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s in a retail space this time &#8211; not industrial. And with that comes, yep you guessed it, a big increase in expenses. However the exposure that we&#8217;re already getting is proving that it&#8217;s the right move.<\/p>\n<p>Over the coming weeks I&#8217;ll be adding some more photos and descriptions, but for now since I&#8217;m on a plane to Australia in less than 48 hours, I thought I&#8217;d give you a sneak peek at the new place.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a snapshot of the new reception&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"reception\" src=\"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/reception.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><br \/>\nAnd the new tatami&#8230; It&#8217;s about twice the size of the old one. Now it&#8217;s 9 metres by 12 metres long (roughly 30 feet x 40 feet) giving us a full size competition floor.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tatami_reverse\" src=\"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tatami_reverse.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Classes commenced on Monday night and eveyone loves the new place &#8211; parents, students and families. It&#8217;s close to other shops and there&#8217;s plenty of parking.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the Early Learning System this growth has been possible and we&#8217;re living the dream of our own full time professional karate dojo. Without the Early Learning System, I&#8217;d still be teaching at the local community center trying to figure out how to hold on students for longer, and enduring the frustrations and problems that I used to face.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, in less than 3 years our club grew from NOTHING to something truly amazing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to thank Marco Mazzanti for sharing his insight, his knowledge and most of all creating the ELS which has been so easy to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Happy holidays and New Year.<\/p>\n<p>Jason<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These last few months have been sooo busy. Our dojo that we moved into in September 2004 no longer supported the increasing student base, so for the last few months I&#8217;ve been busy looking, negotiating and finally moving into our new club. It&#8217;s in a retail space this time &#8211; not industrial. And with that [&hellip;]<\/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\/7"}],"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=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2510,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/2510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karateteaching.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}