| Are your Karate class drills boring? Are you losing | | | | - Passion - Sometimes life can get in the way and |
| students because you perform the same karate | | | | it is easy to lose sight of why we started |
| lesson plans week after week? This was me a | | | | teaching karate in the first place - passion. Bring |
| few years ago. I was teaching karate classes for | | | | your passion for karate and teaching to every |
| kids; using the same lesson plans and templates | | | | class. Your martial arts students will be more |
| every week. I started losing students faster than | | | | focused and engaged if they see you truly love |
| I could replace them. That was when I learned a | | | | what you do and that you want them to do well. |
| valuable lesson about teaching karate. It is not | | | | Variety, preparation and passion can all help you |
| about the shiny trophies on the shelf or the | | | | to stop losing students, but there is an added |
| number of black belts you have produced in your | | | | benefit for you. Variety will keep you from |
| karate school. The key to keeping students happy | | | | getting bored. Preparation will allow you to come |
| and coming back for more depends completely on | | | | to a class focused and ready to teach. Passion, |
| your martial arts drills. Here are three things you | | | | well that is the gravy. Passion will allow you to feel |
| can do right now to improve your karate drills and | | | | a sense of pride in teaching what you love. There |
| stop losing students. | | | | is nothing better than doing what you love and |
| - Variety - Switch up your martial arts drills every | | | | loving what you do. |
| week. Giving your students something new to | | | | What do you risk by doing things the same way |
| look forward to every week will keep them | | | | you always have? Everything. Once I was able to |
| coming back for more. | | | | implement these three core things into each |
| - Prepare - Never come to a class unprepared | | | | weekly class, I found not only my students were |
| relying on the same routine week after week. | | | | re-energized, but so was I. I not only began to |
| You are only asking for students to leave. | | | | stop losing students, but my current students |
| Instead, plan your karate lessons in advance | | | | were telling their friends and my business began |
| incorporating games and switching up routines to | | | | to grow. |
| keep your students on their toes. | | | | |