One way to generate more income from your karate school is to add more specialty classes to your schedule. For example, I teach karate as my #1 focus which brings in around 80% of the school’s income. However I also teach other RELATED specialty classes. On Saturday mornings I teach Escrima for an hour and […]

Five years ago I showed how to build a makiwara from scratch for less than $50 and in about 4 hours or less. You can read that original article here: https://www.karatetips.com/post/how-to-make-a-makiwara.aspx Then a few month’s later during a heavy punching session, it split due to the continual impact. Bummer. I built a second one and […]

I don’t usually follow the UFC too closely, but last Saturday night we were invited to a friend’s house to watch the fights. There were plenty of people there with their families. Kids aged from new born (that’d be us) to early teen years. It was a good night and some of the fights were […]