| Having good martial arts drills is the key to | | | | you dealing with beginners or with more advanced |
| keeping your students, plain and simple. But, the | | | | Karate students? The more advanced your |
| more difficult part is figuring out how to do this? | | | | students are, the more challenging karate drills |
| How do you keep the students excited and the | | | | need to be. One of the biggest mistakes karate |
| lesson planning fast and easy? | | | | instructors make is to dumb-down their martial |
| The first thing you need to do is take a good | | | | arts drills for their older students leaving them |
| look at your own energy level. Surely, you can't | | | | bored and ready to quit. |
| expect your students to have a high energy level | | | | Third, you need to make sure that the other |
| if you aren't bringing on into classes yourself. So, | | | | instructors in your Dojo are all bringing in positive |
| before your classes throw on some | | | | energy to their classes. Having a bad day? You |
| blood-pumping music. | | | | need to leave it at the door - bringing in negative |
| Secondly, you need to know your students. Are | | | | energy is a sure-fire way to lose students. |