"I thought about doing that 5 years ago!"- my thought
Five years ago I was taking and teaching martial arts classes. I noticed that students were progressing through the ranks too fast. It seems that most systems and instructors are in the game of constantly rewarding a student in order to keep them coming. The next belt is a carrot. The student knows that if they come to class and do what they are suppose to do they will progress in rank and achieve the black belt level within 4 years.
I recently read an article about a ballerina who spent 40,000 in order to be able to teach her classes on line to at most 12 students at a time. I thought that this was pretty high until I saw that her client base increased more than 400 percent to about 10000 users in 50 countries and she now offers DVDs available for purchase.
Back to my story...
I thought to myself that it would be best for the student to learn a particular form and in the same time learn how to do the form by using weapons. That way the student would be required to master a form, same form with sword, same form with nun-chucks, same form with Bo-staff, etc. The constant would be the foot work. The hands would be busy using the weapons while doing the same footwork. So I developed sets of forms from white belt to black belt with each of these weapons.
Then I thought to myself... one can offer this online. A student can sign up for a class and they can watch a course during which the student is taught all of these forms. They can then be asked to come in and test for rank or submit a tape of themselves performing the forms. So someone would progress more slow but by the time they reach black belt they would be an expert with open hands or weapons.
Today's question is:
"Could you offer your product online to a real audience?"
P.S. The article can be found at:
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/220713
Five years ago I was taking and teaching martial arts classes. I noticed that students were progressing through the ranks too fast. It seems that most systems and instructors are in the game of constantly rewarding a student in order to keep them coming. The next belt is a carrot. The student knows that if they come to class and do what they are suppose to do they will progress in rank and achieve the black belt level within 4 years.
I recently read an article about a ballerina who spent 40,000 in order to be able to teach her classes on line to at most 12 students at a time. I thought that this was pretty high until I saw that her client base increased more than 400 percent to about 10000 users in 50 countries and she now offers DVDs available for purchase.
Back to my story...
I thought to myself that it would be best for the student to learn a particular form and in the same time learn how to do the form by using weapons. That way the student would be required to master a form, same form with sword, same form with nun-chucks, same form with Bo-staff, etc. The constant would be the foot work. The hands would be busy using the weapons while doing the same footwork. So I developed sets of forms from white belt to black belt with each of these weapons.
Then I thought to myself... one can offer this online. A student can sign up for a class and they can watch a course during which the student is taught all of these forms. They can then be asked to come in and test for rank or submit a tape of themselves performing the forms. So someone would progress more slow but by the time they reach black belt they would be an expert with open hands or weapons.
Today's question is:
"Could you offer your product online to a real audience?"
P.S. The article can be found at:
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/220713
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