9. The Mike Anderson Story Part 1
The Truth About the Martial Arts Business with John Graden
Release Date: 04/20/2020
Why I Replaced Taekwondo with Empower Kickboxing™
The Truth About the Martial Arts Business with John Graden
After nearly two decades of teaching traditional taekwondo, Guevara realized that what he was teaching was not providing the benefits he wanted for his students. He replaced his curriculum with Empower Kickboxing™ and did not lose a single student.
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21. The Truth About Martial Arts in the Inner-City
The Truth About the Martial Arts Business with John Graden
Imagine being so desperate to escape the violent, drug-infested inner-city of Baltimore’s inner-city that you make up your own kung fu techniques to compete in martial arts tournaments in order to get some direction out. Yet, the darkness of the ghetto pulls you back in...
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20. The Smoke and Mirrors of Martial Arts
The Truth About the Martial Arts Business with John Graden
In the episode, the truth about the martial arts business is that not only is it easy for instructors to fall into these drastic mistakes of the past, but that it’s almost expected.
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19. How Mark Moore Grew a 425 Student Martial Arts School While Teaching Just 2 Classes a Night
The Truth About the Martial Arts Business with John Graden
Our guest today is Mark Moore. His school in South Jersey has continued to grow through the pandemic. Mark says the three keys to his success are, the curriculum, the school atmosphere, and a special mindset that any martial arts school owner will certainly appreciate learning.
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18. What Every Martial Arts Instructor MUST Know About the Law of Self-Defense.
The Truth About the Martial Arts Business with John Graden
This week, The Truth About the Martial Arts Business explores a deadly serious topic that every martial arts instructor needs to understand and teach. The Law of Self-Defense.
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17. How to Build a 6-Figure Self-Defense Business
The Truth About the Martial Arts Business with John Graden
Joe Robaina is a veteran martial artist with a wide range of skills and talent. But for the last few years, he has excelled in the self-defense business. Joe shares some strategies that have helped him to build a successful self-defense business.
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16. Master the Art of Tongue Fu with Sam Horn
The Truth About the Martial Arts Business with John Graden
The Truth About the Martial Arts Business episode 16 guest Sam Horn is the author of Tongue Fu.
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15. 7 Biggest Tax Deductions for Martial Arts Businesses and Schools
The Truth About the Martial Arts Business with John Graden
The Trump Tax Act may benefit your martial arts school in several ways. Here are 7 major ways that self-employed martial arts instructors and school owners can slash their taxes and keep more of their hard-earned money to put in the bank each year.
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14. 10 Important Questions About Your Martial Arts School Curriculum
The Truth About the Martial Arts Business with John Graden
In this podcast, I go solo with a harsh look at what martial arts schools are teaching and how to lead your students into the future by discarding the smoke and mirrors of the traditional curriculum. A good master instructor avoids teaching these contradictions.
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13. Bernard Kerik 911 Interview by John Graden
The Truth About the Martial Arts Business with John Graden
Bernard Kerik was Rudy Guliani's right hand during 911. They were under the second tower when it was struck. 2 decades later, we are in the middle of a massive disruption of law and order.
info_outlineMike Anderson is one of the most unheralded pioneers of sport karate and kickboxing around the world.
In 1973, he forever changed the sport of point karate by being the first promoter to require competitors to wear safety gear.
In 1974, he created the professional karate association (PKA) and hosted the first PKA World Championships in Los Angeles. The event was broadcast as an ABC Special and it was one of the highest-rated shows of the year.
The event audience was full of stars from movies and TV. They all saw Joe Lewis, Bill Wallace, Jeff Smith, and Isais Duenas as the first PKA World Champions. That show catapulted them into the sports first superstars.
After the show's huge success, Mike sold his shares in the PKA to his partners Don and Judy Quine for one dollar.
He then traveled to Germany to form the World Association of Kickboxing Organizations or WAKO with his friend and student George Bruckner from Berlin.
Over the course of the next few weeks, you're going to learn the stuff behind the stuff. Not only will you learn what famous black belts were hired by Mike to run secret CIA operations in Iran, why he sold the PKA for a dollar after its highly successful debut.
Mike has a 155 IQ. He speaks five languages and has lived a life straight out of a James Bond book.
He has been one of my best friends since the mid-70s as I described in my book, Who Killed Walt Bone.
After part 1 of my Mike Anderson series, you'll get your Teach Like a Pro teaching tip of the week straight from the MATA Certification program at MATACertification.com.
Quick warning, the audio on this interview with Mike could be better, but it's a question of style vs substance. The substance is so strong, a little warbling in the audio is not an issue.