How To Start A Martial Arts School

By HowExpert

Turning a passion for martial arts into a successful business has never been easier! How to Start a Martial Arts School is an eBook that outlines the basics of making your love for the martial arts into something that can be both fun and profitable. From marketing to thinking about how to pay yourself, this eBook discusses aspects of owning a martial arts business that you need to know about if you're planning to start your own school. If you've ever dreamed of owning your own martial arts school where you could teach your martial art to students in your own way, using your own ideas and methods, this is a great book to get you started.

There are a number of different styles of martial arts. No matter what your style, you need to think carefully about designing a curriculum that will meet the needs of your students. How to Start a Martial Arts School helps you come up with a curriculum by briefly going over child developmental milestones that will be helpful when you design adults' and kids' classes. The eBook discusses special issues you may encounter when designing a curriculum for adults and the needs of children at different ages.

How to Start a Martial Arts School is all about balancing the business part of martial arts with instruction and curriculum design to develop a package that is appealing to a variety of individuals in your community.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: HowExpert
• Release date: Oct 13, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370847204

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How to Start a Martial Arts School

Your Step-By-Step Guide To Starting a Martial Arts School

By HowExpert Press & Jennifer Shipp

Copyright 2016 www.HowExpert.com

Smashwords Edition

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2: Martial Arts as a Business

Chapter 3: Space, Time, and Overhead

Chapter 4: Charging for Classes and Getting Students to Enroll

Chapter 5: Marketing

Chapter 6: Classes, Curriculum, and Testing

Chapter 7: Kids' Classes

Chapter 8: Adult Classes

Chapter 9: Building the School

Chapter 10: Special Events

Chapter 11: Conclusion

About the Expert

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Chapter 1: Introduction

So you've decided that you want to start a martial arts school. Congratulations! Teaching martial arts is fun and exciting and it provides an important service to communities. At first glance, it may seem like starting a martial arts school would be simple, but there's more to it than you might think. Doing some planning and thinking ahead about your martial arts school will help you keep things organized as you make your way through the process.

The idea of starting a martial arts school may sound like a lot of fun but there's a lot of work involved too. The business side of martial arts can take a lot of time and you need to be prepared to deal with this aspect of your business. Whether you're starting a small school or a big school, you'll still need to contend with things like marketing and bookkeeping. Don't underestimate the amount of time these things will take. It's better to factor in the time you're going to need to spend on these activities rather than be overwhelmed by it later.

Making it Profitable and Having Fun

One of the important things you'll need to think about when you decide to start working toward opening a martial arts school is how your martial arts style will fit into the community or the surrounding neighborhood. If you're teaching a grappling sport, will be viewed as complementary or competition with local school wrestling programs, for example? If you're planning to teach Kung Fu or Aikido, do you intend to allow young students to join in or will the classes primarily focus on adults? These questions are important because if you're hoping to turn a profit with your martial arts school you may have to make different choices about the way you set things up to actually accomplish those goals.

Some communities will be more likely to enroll very young students (under age 6 years), while other communities will be more apt to enroll kids 7 and up or adults. Though teens often do really well in martial arts, it is rare for teen students to stick to martial arts classes for very long unless parents are extremely supportive. If you're in a bigger city, it's likely that you'll end up with a mix of different people in different age groups, but in smaller towns, you may find that you have 20 young kids in a class and only 2 people over age 7 to work with or vice versa. If you have a dream of teaching people cool moves while making extra cash, you could be disappointed if all your students are under 6 years of age. You'll need to adjust your expectations to work with the people who end up coming to you for instruction.

Be Ready for Anything

When you teach martial arts, you never know who's going to show up for each night of class. Some nights you may have a full room while other nights, the crickets might be chirping. You're going to need to be able to get up in front of big and small groups and teach your martial art without flinching. When you have small classes, you can spend time working one-one-one with students. When you have big classes, you can work off the large group dynamic to make if fun and challenging. Though it would be most satisfying to have a large group of committed students who work on the material regularly at home and progress quickly through the ranks, often, it takes time to find truly committed students. Sometimes, these students will be the ones you least expected to stick to your classes. This is why you need to be ready for anything when you start a martial arts school.

Make Goals

As you're beginning the planning phase for your martial arts school, you'll want to make goals to help guide you through the ups and downs of finding a location, setting things up, marketing, and waiting for students to arrive for class. It is important as a martial arts instructor that you are always trying to help your students surpass you in skill and knowledge. Always strive to be the best martial artist that you can be, but don't be intimidated by the idea that one of your students could become better than you are at your own art. Think about taking pleasure in your students' accomplishments and recognizing them rather than trying to show a classroom full of people that you're the best.

The most practical aspect of the martial arts is its functionality in self-defense situations. However, many martial arts schools focus more on competition than on street style self-defense. You'll need to decide what your goals are for your students in order to steer them in the right direction. Sometimes, competition is instructive, but rarely does it truly represent actual self-defense scenarios. Having goals that are focused on winning competitions means that you're going to be training