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  • Self Defense In The Bermuda Triangle
    By: Matthew McKernan | - Just the other day, an Instructor I know, Reuben Bean and I were discussing opportunities existing in paradise. Reuben lives in Bermuda, and besides enjoying the beautiful weather and crisp blue water he was been diligently carving his way into his government agencies.

    We began the call like any other call. Talking about anything and everything but self defense. I wanted to share with him a documentary I had watched about the Bermuda Triangle the other day, and I was curious to ...
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  • What You Can Do To Help Your Small Business Make More Money Now
    By: Matthew McKernan | - As you're probably aware the economy is in very bad shape and despite whatever the President or anyone else in the government says it is up to you the individual to make things right and help the economy correct itself. Now if you're a small business owner you're all to familiar with the economic situation and for you a slight down turn means losing your home not being forced to buy a smaller yacht.

    So while economists try to figure out correct course of action and the governme ...
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  • What Soldiers Need To Know To Remove An Enemy Sentry
    By: Matthew McKernan | - You see him from a distance he's tired and doing his best to stay vigilant until he's relieved. You move across the sand as quietly as possible blade in hand, and with in seconds you're on him. Your hand goes around his mouth and before he can even try and cry out or go for his weapon your blade drives into his back. He squirms as you pull your knife out off his kidney, and then you change grips and you finish him with several quick thrusts to the chest.

    You drag him away, an ...
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  • You're Never Too Old To Learn To Defend Yourself
    By: Matthew McKernan | - If you're a fan of the Lethal Weapon series like I am you're probably used to hearing Danny Glover's character L.A.P.D. Detective Roger Murtaugh saying, "I'm to old for this," many times throughout the films. Despite how he feels though the heroic detective keeps stepping up to the challenge and takes on mercenaries, gang members, and gangsters. While real life isn't like the movies many older guys I have talked to seem to think self defense isn't something they can do any more, and that isn't ...
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  • Frbiz.com Reports China Unicom's 3g Business Development For Lower Than Expected
    By: heiyou | - China Unicom (600.05 thousand, closing price of 6.58 yuan) yesterday announced the September operating data out of the recent trough, a continuous chain pick-up in two months to achieve. However, most focus on the 3G market, business, China Unicom WCDMA since before National Day, after the official commercial to promote the situation shows just before the wide gap between expected, resulting in the secondary market after the holiday company's stock price significantly underperform broader market ...
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  • Black Belt Thinking: Rating Yourself On A Scale From 1 To 10
    By: Tom Callos | - Of all the tools I have ever learned about and used in my business, using a rating scale of 1 to 10 has been the most powerful. The 1 represents the worst you could be, your worst possible performance or outcome, and 10 represent the best, bar none.

    Example: You're in a job interview and it's for a job you really want. On the way to the interview you hit a skunk in your car with the windows open. You now smell like a dead skunk. You sit in the interview and the smell makes you na ...
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  • How To Become A Full Time Martial Arts Instructor And Make Enough Money To Live, Thrive, And Survive
    By: Tom Callos | - There are two basic things you have to be able to do to survive as a martial arts professional. First, you must be able to meet lots of people and recruit them as students. Second, you have to be able to keep them coming to classes -and paying tuition.

    I repeat: These two things are the ESSENTIAL things.

    To meet and recruit students, you have to be everywhere you possibly can -and represent yourself in the best possible light. Ask yourself how are you meeting and in ...
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  • The First Key To Success For A Martial Arts School Owner Or Teacher
    By: Tom Callos | - To achieve real success, the school owner or martial arts teacher needs to establish a "practice of training" that gets and keeps them in peak shape.

    But recognize that "peak shape" for the average person is much different than "peak shape" for the martial arts Master-Teacher.

    Our peak shape doesn't rely only on the flat stomach; it requires that we master martial arts skills, to the best of our abilities. Granted, there are coaches and teachers who aren't absolute ...
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  • Raising The Standards For The Rank Of Black Belt
    By: Tom Callos | - I have been looking deeply at the martial arts world, at the process of earning a black belt, and about what it means to be a black belt. For the last 5 years I have been involved in a project called The Ultimate Black Belt Test (UBBT) -and to date, more than 100 black belts have participated in the 13 month training program.

    While the UBBT is still a work in progress (as there are many ideas yet to be tested), the project has been a catalyst for an evolution in my thinking about ...
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  • Self Defense Information For Everyone: Save Your Life Now
    By: Tom Callos | - This piece is about an anniversary of sorts:

    This year I will turn 50 years old.

    My birthday will also mark 30 years of life without being in a position where I have had to physically defend myself. The last time that happened was when I stepped between a man and his wife as he was threatening to assault her. It was over quickly, as I simply took him to the ground and restrained him as she left the scene. Nobody was hurt.

    I have, however, continued to ...
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  • Three Vital Tips For The New Martial Arts Teacher Or School Owner
    By: Tom Callos | - Here are three of the best tips you'll ever find for up-and-coming martial arts teachers and school owners:

    1. You will want to buy and/or borrow a "school operations manual" from an established school or consultant. This manual will have most, if not all of the procedural things you'll need to know about how to answer phones, makes sales, handle employees, etc.

    This kind of thing wasn't available when I started teaching, but today they're quite common. By the way, ...
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  • Chuck Liddle - The Odds Are In His Favor
    By: tyronemathew56 | - Chuck Liddell the kick boxing idol will take on Mauricio Shogun Rua at UFC 97 in Montreal Canada on the 18th of April 2009. At UFC 88 Chuck Liddell was knocked out by the reigning UFC light heavy weight champion Rashad Evans. Liddell is also called as the ice man. Chuck liddell decorates the front pages fighters magazines in U.K. He is a cool fighter and his style is awed and respected in the kick boxing arena. His style is the most imitated one in the kick boxing all over the world. ...
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  • Feeling Stuck? Find Your Mission And You Will Find Your Profit: A Mental Martial Arts Lesson
    By: Tom Callos | - I'm going to write this lesson for martial arts teachers, but you may replace everything "martial arts" with your profession.

    Martial Arts Teachers, Feeling Stuck?

    A sense of mission, beyond profit, beyond image, beyond "agenda," and beyond anything but a call to duty is THE factor to search for if you want to work in a martial arts school (or any career) and feel like you're doing something important. You have to work "for the world."

    A "Sense of M ...
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  • Middle Age And The Martial Arts
    By: Calasanz Martinez | - How many football, baseball and basketball players do you see playing professional ball way into their 50's, 60's and 70's? The answer is none. Now, I'll tell you that many martial art masters are still going strong in middle age and well into their senior years.

    Most of my student body is in the age range of 35 to 70. Many of them show up at the school looking for lessons for younger families members and initially wouldn't dream of taking up the martial arts. That's until I'v ...
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  • The New Way Of Business: Make Your Living With Passionate Involvement
    By: Tom Callos | - (Author's note: While this article is written for the man or woman who runs a martial arts school, the advice applies to anyone doing business in today's world.)

    The New Way to do business is not mechanical, it is emotional. Read the following 6 sentences as an example:

    I heard that a man in China helped save someone's life.

    I heard recently that a woman in London saved a child's life.

    I heard about a man in Florida who saved his neighb ...
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  • Mastery And Business: Hard Core Advice For Martial Arts Teachers
    By: Tom Callos | - Martial artists respect the efficient and effective, so I'm going to deliver my message like a well thrown punch to the nose: The martial arts world ("The Industry") is thinking too small and it's off course.

    It's time to slow down all the talk of sales and gross income and marketing in our industry. What we need to hear and heal this industry is smart talk from its leaders. Instead of sales chatter, let's hear someone say, "We are being disrespectful to our planet, let's do somet ...
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  • Sustainable-business Practices For Martial Arts Schools (and A Lot Of Other Businesses!)
    By: Tom Callos | - Sustainable business practices are things you do in your business that sustain it, rather than drain it.

    Here is one example:

    Clear-Cutting Students (Read: Customers)

    You can't clear-cut a forest and expect to go back the next year and harvest another tree crop from it. You can't fish out a lake and then go back the next week and look for more fish. And you can't sell martial arts lessons (or anything) to people in your community, with a win-lose pro ...
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  • The Unwritten Code: Part Of Being A Martial Arts Master -- Or A Master Of Anything
    By: Tom Callos | - My martial arts teacher, Ernie Reyes, Sr. follows an unwritten code of behavior. It's his unwritten code of what a Master is -and/or is not. I know it's unwritten, as I've been his student since 1980 and I have read everything there is to read about him and his work. I recognized (finally) this concept last weekend when I observed Mr. Reyes entertain and teach a group of high ranking martial artists. I saw it in the way he dressed, in the way he carried himself, in the way he spoke to the audien ...
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  • Black Belt Ideas Applied To Sales And Service: How To Grow Your Business
    By: Tom Callos | - There are two basic area to focus on for getting and keeping more students/customers:
    1.sales
    2.retention

    To get a new student you have to "sell" them on the benefits of your stuff. To keep a customer you already have, you have to do two things:

    1.Meet their needs and;
    2.Make sure they understand where they're going (understand the benefits of continued study/practice).

    Again:

    You have to make promises -and th ...
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  • Martial Arts School Owners: A Lesson In A Kind Of Martial Arts That Is Essential --or Non-essential
    By: Tom Callos | - In the Western World, and most places on the planet, learning to read is seen as an essential skill. Likewise, learning to swim is a skill most, if not all, children are taught, both for enjoyment and basic survival skills. Basic math is an essential skill, as is learning basic personal hygiene. There are a number of other skills almost everyone learns, but at the moment martial arts is not on that list.

    Learning the martial arts is, for the most part, along the lines of learning ...
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  • One Man Passes His 4th Degree Black Belt Test: A Revolution In Methodology For Black Belt Testing
    By: Tom Callos | - After much hard work, I've just passed a student of mine from 3rd degree black belt to 4th degree. This fellow had passed to 3rd degree in 2005 -and spent the entire last year doing 1000's of repetitions of his techniques, as well as changing careers, having his first child, moving and expanding his school, making contributions to his classmates, and doing a number of comprehensive community-based projects.

    Let's just say that I feel he's earned the rank of 4th dan (level) through ...
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  • How To Use The Martial Arts In Your Business
    By: Tom Callos | - It doesn't matter what kind of business you're in; it doesn't matter if you own a laundry, do financial planning, charter fishing boats, or sell insurance, you can use the martial arts to gain a tactical advantage in your market. No, you won't be side-kicking anyone in the breadbasket, after all you're not Chuck Norris, but you can use martial arts knowledge and ideas in a way that give you the upper hand (or foot).

    Here are three relatively-easy ways to use black belt skills in ...
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  • On Education: My Advice To The Martial Arts School Owner Seeking Business Success
    By: Tom Callos | - Education is the way to success in your martial arts school, beginning with your education. What do you know, what are you learning, and how are you using it in your life, for your school, and for your community?

    Educational Warning: Through no fault of its own, as everyone involved originally intended to offer help to the industry, the martial arts business world has fallen into a rut of "make it easy." Getting a good education isn't always easy.

    The martial arts ...
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  • Martial Arts Association - What It Should And Could Be
    By: Ethan Alexander | - A martial arts association should be a resource for martial arts school owners, teachers, and students; many people, many resources, many tools, and many ideas. It should have a collective power used to inform, educate, and inspire its martial arts members. It should educate the general public about the positive aspects of the martial arts.

    There are four areas a martial arts student should be coached in -- and likewise, a martial arts association should be promoting development ...
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  • The Business Of Belts And Ranking Systems
    By: Calasanz Martinez | - If you practice the martial arts, the color of the belt around your waist is used to signify your grade, level or ranking within the style. Colored belts, however, were never part of the ancient martial arts tradition. According to martial art folklore, a student was given a white belt to match his uniform and hold up his pants. After many years of training, the belt became stained with dirt, blood and sweat to the point where it turned black. See, while you were encouraged to wash your unif ...
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  • To Affiliate Or Not Affiliate
    By: Calasanz Martinez | - We Americans love affiliations and endorsements; The Good Housekeeping Seal, Better Business Bureau etc. They lend credibility to a business or product. They assure us that our chosen product or service has received some type of validation from a higher authority.

    Martial arts are no different. Look at most generic articles entitled "how to choose a good martial arts school." A piece of advice you will often see is that you find a school that is affiliated with an "accredited orga ...
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  • Martial Arts Supplies For Training
    By: Jerry Glynn | - The term Martial Arts is an all encompassing term that means The Art of War. it is taken from the name Mars the Roman god of war. In the sense that martial arts are simply the art of war all forms of combat that are codified and traditional in their teaching can be considered martial arts regardless of their national origin.

    In the popular sense, however, most martial arts are thought of as being of Asian origins, but even here we see a variety of forms and differing styles, an ...
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  • All About Martial Arts Weapons
    By: Jerry Glynn | - Most popular thought considers the Asian forms of martial arts to be a combination of well performed punches, kicks, blocks, flips, and other combative gestures. A skilled martial artist performs his art like a graceful dance that is achieved through the careful honing of the bodies muscles, flexibility, and reflexes. At their core most Asian forms of martial arts are primarily focused on teaching these skills in combat, but for the more advanced student of martial arts there is a whole other ...
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  • How To Protect Yourself Against Multiple Attackers
    By: Nerode Abraham | - What can a person do to defend themselves against multiple attackers? This famed question is asked by dozen of martial artists all across the globe. In the following article, we will real answer this question, and you may not like it. BUT..

    Before we do, let me start by saying a few things. First, fighting multiple attacker is one of the DUMBEST things you can do. In fact, there are only a few ways I would even consider the notion.
    1.If I was jumped
    2.If my family ...
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  • Ufc Fight Gear And The Octagon
    By: Phoenix Delray | - UFC and MMA fights are held in a cage and eight sided chain linked reinforced, heavily padded structure called the Octagon. As the sport has grown in popularity over the years, rules and regulations, according strict regulations concerning the type of fight gear that a cage fighter can wear during a match.

    The Octagons unique shape and structure have become associated with the UFC brand name and the UFCs parent company, Zuffa. The Octagon is featured regularly on television and m ...
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  • What You Should Know About The Ufc
    By: Phoenix Delray | - The UFC, or Ultimate Fighting Championship, is currently recognized as the largest MMA promotion worldwide, is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. The UFC began as a tournament to find the best fighters in the world, and was based on the Brazilian vale tudo fighting style. Originally, it was known as a no holds barred fighting contest, which eventually led to accusations of human brutality. After criticism reduced the UFCs visibility was diminished by these accusations, the organization reform ...
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  • Chuck Liddell And His Mixed Martial Arts Role
    By: Phoenix Delray | - Chuck The Iceman Liddell was born on December 17, 1969 in Santa Barbara, California and is a mixed martial artist, a purple belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and a former UFC Light Heavy weight champion. Liddell is known for his standup fighting techniques and take down defense and knockout ability within MMA circles. Liddells fighting versatility and stamina have earned him the nickname The Iceman, and have furthered his budding acting career, which includes, among other things, a recently released ...
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  • Mma Fighter Dies After Fight
    By: Phillip Longmire | - I have to admit I love all sports. Everything from MMA to bowling. I haven't always felt this way but as I age and become slower, I seem to appreciate any athletic ability, even if it is throwing a ball down a lane.

    However, when it comes to Mixed Martial Arts there is a large attraction for me. Even though it is a bloody aggressive sport, and people get hurt. There seems to be enough drama with the creation of the Ultimate Fighter and the dedication it takes to step in the octago ...
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  • Making The Case For Violence As Your Ultimate Survival Tool
    By: Tim Larkin | - Since the events of 9/11 we have been bombarded with scenes of violence. Terrorist attacks, two back-to-back wars and the ongoing war on terror have given the 24-hour news channels an endless supply of images to fill their screens. New warnings and color-coded alert levels only heightened this atmosphere of fear.Just when we thought we'd seen it all, things reached a saturation point with the video images of innocent contractors beheaded by hooded thugs in Iraq.

    As someone who's l ...
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  • With Violence, A Video Clip Is Worth A Thousand Words
    By: Tim Larkin | - I just instructed a self defense seminar in NYC and it was interesting to note certain folk's response to being systematically shown how to use the tool of violence for survival.

    The instructors did a matter-of-fact job picking various vulnerable areas of the human body and showing how to injure those targets. We use a proprietary method that allows the student to learn how to injure the body in a specific manner to yield the desired result.

    We then show them how ...
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  • Wing Chun And Good Business
    By: Armando Sainz | - Perhaps we should take a good look at how martial arts are taught today and the different mentalities involved. Maybe we should question not our methods of Wing Chun, but our motivations for teaching this great fighting system. There are several questions that come to mind when I think about how excellent Wing Chun is as a fighting system and yet here in the United States, we are few in number. If we were to compare to Tae Kwon Do schools we are last place. They have really nice schools that are ...
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  • The History Of Judo
    By: James Dunn | - Unlike many forms of martial arts that have unclear histories and origins, Judo is one of the few forms of martial arts that has a clear founder and creation. Judo was conceived by Kano Jigoro (1860-1938) who was a very affluent and well-heeled Japanese educator and polymath.

    Kano Jigoro's grandfather did very well in the sake brewing business, however, Kano Jigoro's father failed to become heir to this wealth as he was not the first born son. Kano Jigoro's father did very wel ...
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  • Meet My Students' New Best Friend, Mat
    By: Yoshi Kundagawa | - Meet My Students' New Best Friend, Mat.


    Everybody was Kung Fu fighting...except for Chester "Rambo" Zephanic. The boy was clumsy, lazy, and not in my class out of free will. "Come take a karate mat," I instructed him for the second time, as the rest of the class waited for him. He lugged his drooping body to the front and slowly....slowly...walked back. The mat fell on the ground and made a slapping noise on the linoleum floor. Normal people would have calmly lowered thems ...
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  • Tokui Waza Presentations
    By: Chris Pizzo | - In Judo, Tokui Waza means "favorite" or "best" technique. It's the throw that fits naturally to your body type, and you have practiced it thousands of times to make it an instinctual response. Everyone at the club or local tournament knows that you'll use it, but there's nothing they can do to stop it...you're just that damn good at it.

    Same thing goes in business. Everyone needs to have a carefully prepared and practiced Tokui Waza. Of course, you are not going to toss your clien ...
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  • Starting Your Own Martial Arts Demonstration Business
    By: Aurel Radulescu | - If you are a martial arts expert, then you may be interested in starting your own business with demonstrations for those interested in getting an introduction into the technique. When starting a martial arts business, you will want to charge a reasonable fee to entice your guests into attending your class. If you want them to return, you will need to introduce new techniques and martial arts demonstrations at each meeting.

    A martial arts class will involve students practicing an ...
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