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Everlast Punching Bag Quality - David Toub
Punching bags can be considered as the source of strength and stamina for a boxer as well as other combatants. Everlast punching bags are one of the branded bags available in the market. The brand has been manufacturing boxing bags since decades and still stands as the leading boxing bag... Submitted 2 years 37 days ago.

Everlast Punching Bags - David Toub
Why choose Everlast punching bags? What's all the hype about? Why is Everlast known as the "preeminent brand in boxing since 1910"? Why do professionals swear by it and why is it among the most popular boxing and MMA brand out there? What separates Everlast punching bags from other brand heavy... Submitted 2 years 55 days ago.

Martial Arts for our Kids - Kyle Keniston
As modern day parents, we try to do everything to ensure our kids grow up to be happy and healthy. Happiness can develop due to security, and health is attained by physical activity. Enrolling children in martial arts training can be very beneficial. A legitimate training program can help to... Submitted 2 years 56 days ago.

Curriculum Design: The Recipe Book for Your Martial Arts School - John Graden
I had lunch recently with a fourth dan in Uechi Ryu. We talked about how the Eastern mind-set is so different from the Western, and the confusion that creates for many instructors. Culturally, the East is more about conformity, or as I call it, cloning, than the West, where rugged... Submitted 2 years 60 days ago.

Is Owning a Martial Arts School Right For You? - John Graden
I knew from my first night in white belt class on February 12, 1974, at age 13, that I was going to do martial arts for the rest of my life. I was teaching professionally by age 16 and have been teaching ever since. However, I never wanted to own a school, at least until the mid-1980s when I... Submitted 2 years 60 days ago.

Fine-turning Your Martial Arts Curriculum - John Graden
Let me walk you through the processes that I went through to change the recipe of my curriculum. At first, it's not easy to make wholesale changes to your program. We have a strong connection to many of these techniques and forms. However, once you begin the process of improving the recipes... Submitted 2 years 60 days ago.

A Tale of Two Curriculums - John Graden
When I opened my school, I presented the exact curriculum that I was raised on. Among the many problems that created for me was that I had a lot more kids in my school than my instructors did. Martial arts forms, hyungs, or kata were designed by highly disciplined adults to be taught to other... Submitted 2 years 60 days ago.

Masters on Change - John Graden
The Masters on Change Here are some quotations regarding styles from three of the most influential martial artists in history: "The art does not make the man. The man makes the art." Gichin Funakoshi "You limit a style by labeling it." Bruce Lee "The style serves the student. The... Submitted 2 years 61 days ago.

How to Make Cash Outs Work to Your School’s Advantage - John Graden
If you can keep a steady flow of new students coming in, an ideal situation is high cash outs and high monthly billing. This is being accomplished by some schools that take a somewhat unconventional approach to their cash out and upgrade strategies. This may seem to contradict my previous... Submitted 2 years 61 days ago.

Can You Really Teach Confidence? - John Graden
Schools today talk a lot about teaching confidence. They have words of the week and life skills training, which is great. I wish my instructors had taught me about goal setting when I was a kid. But I don't think confidence can be taught. It's too experiential and situational. I do think... Submitted 2 years 66 days ago.

How to Determine Your Retention - John Graden
In consulting with school owners for more than a decade, I can pretty much predict how the initial conversations will go. I ask how many students the client wants and then how many he currently has. When he gives me his current student count (usually higher than it really is), I ask if he knows... Submitted 2 years 66 days ago.

The Motivational Daycare Center - John Graden
As stated in one of my previous articles, I don't feel that the movement towards character development has been bad for martial arts schools. Actually, it's been great. On the other hand, when schools drift away from their core values, they become little more than motivational day care... Submitted 2 years 66 days ago.

Gichin Funakoshi and the True History of Japanese Karate! - - Al Case
It is commonly held that Gichin Funakoshi is the father of modern Karate. Well, he could be considered such, except that something odd happened a century ago, that puts forth a slightly different idea. We've got to give him credit for sharing karate, but was his karate the true art? I know... Submitted 2 years 70 days ago.

Karate Masters of Old, What They Did, and How You Can Become One! - - Al Case
Whap, bam and pow! We watch TV and the movies, and we see kung fu flips in the Matrix and sword standing and eye gouging in Kill Bill and we know we have seen the real masters! Wake up, dude, that's a movie, and what the real masters do is a lot different than what you see on TV! Gichin Funakoshi... Submitted 2 years 72 days ago.

Becoming a Kung Fu Master through the Secret of Light Kung Fu! - - Al Case
One of the neatest things in cinema was when David Carradine in the old Kung Fu TV series walked on the rice paper. Rice paper is extremely thin, and the moisture on the sole of the foot, along with the weight of the body, was enough to tear the stuff. The legend, of course, was there is this... Submitted 2 years 72 days ago.

Who would win the Big Fight, Bruce or Mohammad Ali? - Al Case
Man, there's gonna be a fight in heaven! I can feel it in my soul! The question is, will Mohammad knock down Bruce, or will Bruce knock down Mohammad? Okay, first things first, let's talk about the physical measurements of the men. Bruce Lee was 5 foot seven, and Mohammad Ali was six foot... Submitted 2 years 73 days ago.

How to Set Your Tuition - John Graden
In 1974, the tuition at the Florida Karate Academy in Largo, Florida, was a 12-month contract at $25 per month. If you just raised tuition three percent per year from that point, you would have tuition of about $60 per month in 2004. When I opened my school in 1986, my tuition averaged $75 per... Submitted 2 years 75 days ago.

Five Things I Wish I Would have Known About the Martial Arts! - - Al Case
Okay, I've been doing the martial arts since 1967. I've lived through judo in the fifties, karate in the sixties, kung fu in the seventies, and Arnis and Ninjitsu and MMA, and I've analyzed durn near every art there is. I've made up a list of things which I wish people would have told me when I... Submitted 2 years 75 days ago.

How Much Is Your Tuition Really? - John Graden
This is a little drill that can make grown black belts cry. Here is an audit you can do to help you understand how much tuition you are really collecting each month per student. 1 Total Tuition Collected: Take last year's total tuition collections. This is the sum of paid-in-fulls (PIFs)... Submitted 2 years 75 days ago.

The Real and Mystical Truth About Why I Didn't choose Shaolin Kung Fu for Matrixing! - - Al Case
Matrixing, to clear things up right from the start, is the analysis and handling of flow and force. Every every particle in this universe, every object, has a direction, and everything in the universe unlimited potentials for collision. Thus, the study of Matrixing becomes the single most... Submitted 2 years 76 days ago.

The Secret of How Chi Awareness Works! - - Al Case
One of the biggest mysteries of the martial arts is internal energy. Wudan arts, like Tai Chi Chuan and Pa Kua Chang and Hsing i claim it. Supposedly it takes lifetimes to build, but when you get it you can defeat attackers with just a sigh and a brush of the palm. Atually, the fact is is that... Submitted 2 years 77 days ago.

Why Is It Important to Learn Martial Arts? - Robert Jones
The term Martial Arts can cover many styles of combat, such as Karate and Kung Fu - think Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee. Over the years, many styles have been elaborated on and new forms of combat have developed. There is for sure a style out there for each and every one of us. I personally... Submitted 2 years 78 days ago.

The Science Behind Matrixing the Martial Arts - - Al Case
There is a tremendous amount of fascination in the martial arts for this thing called Matrixing. It is pretty obvious that Matrixing is going to be the next significant breakthrough in the martial arts. It is pretty obvious that Matrixing is going to cover the globe and provide transformation in... Submitted 2 years 78 days ago.

Three Depth Striking in the Martial Arts! - - Al Case
Old guy knocks a young guy on his fanny! That’ll make a headline, eh? So what bit of martial knowledge did the old guy know that would enable him to take out a young guy so easy squeezy? The old guy, having studied karate, or maybe kung fu, for a number of years, knew how to deliver a bit of... Submitted 2 years 80 days ago.

The Secret Behind Real Karate Fighting! - - Al Case
When you learn real Kung Fu fighting, there are certain truths about how to survive. One of the truths is that the human mental apparatus shuts down during combat, and survival mode kicks in. Fighters who survive by the amount of adrenaline kicked in would have you believe this is good, but it is... Submitted 2 years 87 days ago.