Why belong to IUKF?
GEMattson at Super Summer Semminars 2012
Students and teachers join because they wish to support IUKF’s efforts to provide a members orientated website, conference rooms, activities, workouts and timely communicated newsletters that keep them up-to-date in happenings related to the Uechi-ryu world.
Lets explore another benefit. . . .
What few people realize, is that the Mattson Academy, back in the 1960s,70s, 80s and 90s, was a successful and thriving Dojo that was in the forefront of teaching the very finest martial arts while being an innovator in marketing and administration of a successful Dojo. At one time I had over 500 active students training at the Boston Dojo.
My teaching programs and business management experiments were copied and improved upon by many of today’s very successful Dojo. Those of you who read my new book learned about my ups and downs during this period of time and how “burnout” can even be a problem for martial art teachers.
Since then, I’ve been teaching mostly as a hobby and for my own personal enjoyment. I’ve been following the growth of the martial arts business world and am not surprised that many of my early marketing concepts have been validated and successfully implemented during the last 20 years.
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