Now, I am going to share something I probably shouldn't.
Martial arts school teaching is a business, you can pretend otherwise, but it is. Some do poorly; others are comfortable, while others become wealthy doing it. So it's not surprising that the same question came up too often to count. "Paul, I love it, it helped me, thank you very much, but I have reservations about teaching it."
After 2-3 people gave me a similar intro, I knew the question that was about to come up.
This is the question many instructors have asked. "I love your method, but if my students master the kicks so fast, there is a chance that they would leave the school quickly and I am looking for long term retention."
My response is always swift and if you are asking yourself the same question right know, hear this.
Injury and frustration with an inability to master a skill, is the primary reason someone quits physical activity, including martial arts. You stand a much better chance retaining that student if he is mastering the skills and doing that safely, than he pulling a muscle, getting lower back or simple struggles with a skill to the point of giving up. I have done enough research on psychology of athletics.
And just like in tennis, volleyball, baseball, or any other activity the better your skills are, the more you want to play. Mastering the skills is just a step to beginning to play the game. If you can't serve, bump or throw---you can't enjoy the game. If you can't kick, you can't fully enjoy the training, competing, demonstrating, etc.
Just imagine when you take your students to a tournament, you arrive and there is a rival there with his students, the competition starts and the competing school's students beginning winning every match, showing off perfect high powerful kicks. Whose school do you think all the people in the audience would want to register their kids to? Yours or your rivals? Exactly, they would want to register to the school that has the best performing students. Sure, you might have a few black belts that have been training with you for years and years who look good out there, but just imagine that everyone of your students shows off perfect kicks at the tournament, or at the promotion in your school, or on any given day when potential clients are passing by. Wouldn't that be great? And with much less effort from you! Just think about how much more money you can make by getting many more students to line up to be part of your school.
Okay now that you've got a pretty good idea about what you will learn in the seminar and how it will benefit you and your students let's talk about the details involved in actually taking this seminar.