Developing Staff: Developing Unity Instead of Uniformity
Is the goal of staff development to duplicate yourself or to duplicate your efforts? When you duplicate yourself, you find and/or create another staff member…
Does AI Seal Our Fate or Accelerate Our Success!
Wow, what a time to be alive! It’s possible, I’d argue nearly certain, that we’re living through one of the greatest times of ‘transition’ we’ve…
Line of Fire
As we all know, there are many forms of martial arts as well as even more instructors that teach the arts. Majority of instructors have…
A Night of Legends: Black Belt Magazine Hall of Fame 2024 Honors Martial Arts Icons
The Black Belt Hall of Fame 2024 Ceremony, hosted by Black Belt Magazine, took place at the Avalon in Hollywood on October 10th, 2024, marking…
Making a Big Difference or Big Dollars?
Given the choice between making money or helping change people’s lives, almost every martial arts instructor will choose changing lives. That is why we started…
Grandmaster Pui Chan: The Pioneer of Kung Fu in the U.S.A.
At Kung Fu Tai Chi Magazine’s 25th Anniversary Gala, there were a couple dozens of the most outstanding Chinese martial artists from all over the…
How to Triumph, While Others Tailspin (Part 4)
MAWN: Why do you think so many gyms, and other similar businesses failed during the COVID crisis, and how might that guide us through future…
Confidence Factors
Network with other Winners The seventh factor in building confidence is to form your own “mastermind” or support group comprised entirely of winners: people who…
ATLAS Feature: Attendance
The Most Flexible Student Attendance System in the Martial Arts Industry. Period. Finally! Take student attendance your way. ATLAS offers student attendance tracking. The software…
The Day I Thought I Was Getting Arrested for Being Funny! (Part 1)
It was a typical day at the Astroworld Amusement Park where I was working. It was 1981 and I had signed my first big contract…
