10. Do Martial Arts Really Work for Law Enforcement?
The Truth About the Martial Arts Business with John Graden
Release Date: 04/29/2020
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_outlineHow would your martial arts skills work for you as a maximum-security prison guard, street cop, or county sheriff?
Joe Lewis black belt Chris Sutton has trained in nearly a dozen different martial arts styles and he also held each one of those jobs. His first fight with an inmate was over a single Reeses Cup™. Find out if his martial arts training helped or hindered him.
Also, learn how the Police Academy 10-week training program compared to his martial arts training.
Here are more show notes from this fascinating interview with Chris Sutton.
Websites:
SelfDefenseBusiness.com
MartialArtsTeachers.com
EmpowerKickboxing.com
JohnGraden.com
:38 Corrections officer
:40 Care, custody, and control of some of the worst criminals in the world
1:05 Law enforcement boot camp for felons
1:40 Maximum Security Prison Guard
1:43 Street cop
1: 50 Talking to crime victims
2:00 Capturing criminals
2:10 What they will kill you for
2:30 Did martial arts help or hinder your job?
2:40 Gets into a fight over Reeses Cup
3:10 Inmate gets knocked out
3:35 Chris went to 13 different public schools in Tampa Bay as a kid
3:48 Using martial arts against violent criminals
3:58 Feelings during a real fight
4:25 Cobra was developed to be market-friendly, easy to learn with maximum impact
4:40 What you learn in the Police Academy
4:44 Why does it take 4-5 years to earn a black belt yet Police Academy graduates go straight to the streets
4:50 What he created in COBRA
5:30 Why COBRA is designed for everyone to progress together
5:35 How he decides what to teach and include in the course
5:45 What is different about COBRA vs Krav Maga
6:52 If you need help today, who would you call to help market your self-defense program?
7:50 Companies that call COBRA for training
9:00 COBRA in contrast to what's out there
9:15 Living a life of quiet desperation not making money
9:30 How would you teach a real estate safety seminar
9:40 How COBRA tests programs before releasing them to members
10:30 What support COBRA provides for instructors
11:00 What a new member gets when they join COBRA
11:30 Do you need a school to teach COBRA
12:00 How to create income 24 hours a day
12:10 What succeeds at COBRA and who tends to fail
13:30 The income potential for COBRA
14:00 The difference between selling yourself vs selling your program
15:10 Some COBRA success stories
16:00 The house that COBRA built
16:16 You don't need to attend a COBRA certification seminar
17:15 The importance of following the COBRA system
Important Links
MartialArtsTeachers.com
JohnGraden.com
MATACertification.com
MATAInsurance.com
SelfDefenseBusiness.com (COBRA-Defense)