No Room For Fear – Maintaining An Entrepreneur’s Mindset In Your Martial Art School Operations

Written by Mike Massie on January 29, 2009 - 1 Comment
Categories: Management

Fear makes you do stupid things. I think all martial artists know that it’s a basic sparring strategy to get your opponent to act out of fear instead of logic. And, that’s because fear causes you to hesitate, to freeze up, to second guess your gut. Fear makes you dumber than you really are. “Fear [...]

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Kumite – The Three Levels

Written by Mike Massie on January 19, 2009 - 1 Comment
Categories: Curriculum

By Jason Stanley “C’mon Jason, let’s do some sparring”, Alex challenged me half seriously in front of a group of other kids. Having just started karate I didn’t particularly want to spar a cocky young black belt, but at the same time I didn’t want to back down from a challenge either. After all he [...]

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