The Playful Warrior Academy

26/03/2024

🥋 Attention Martial Arts Club Owners with 50-200 Members! 🥋

I WILL BE BRUTALLY HONEST.

🌟 Ready to unleash the full potential of your club? 🌟

🔍Professional Evaluation:
Are you truly maximizing your club's potential? Let's delve deep into every aspect of your business. From marketing strategies to operational efficiency, we'll leave no stone unturned.

📈Actionable Strategies:
Together, we'll craft tailor-made strategies designed to skyrocket your profits and attract a flood of new members. Say goodbye to stagnant growth and hello to exponential success!

🥋Strategic Planning:
Gone are the days of aimless wandering. With a meticulously crafted roadmap in hand, we'll navigate the path to success with precision and purpose.

🤝Team Training:
Your team is your greatest asset. I'll equip them with the skills and knowledge needed to excel, whether it's fine-tuning their existing abilities or building a powerhouse team from scratch.

🚀Optimize Operations:
Efficiency is the name of the game. Let's streamline your operations to eliminate wastage and maximize productivity, ensuring every minute and resource is utilized to its fullest potential.

💰Revenue Growth:
Prepare to witness unprecedented growth in your bottom line. With proven strategies and innovative techniques, we'll unlock new revenue streams and propel your club to new heights of financial success.

Over the last 12 years I've built multiple clubs. Passed 300...twice and even built a mini empire of 800+ members. Let's get you started.

You'll also get 6 months of follow up meetings to check in and see what more we can do for you.

Don't settle for mediocrity. Seize this opportunity to transform your martial arts club into a powerhouse of success. Reach out today to schedule your consultation and let's embark on this journey together! 🌟

21/03/2024

I've put together a free seminar on incorporating play in martial arts training for children, and I'd love to share it with you! This seminar is designed to provide practical tips, strategies, and inspiration to enhance your classes and promote a fun and engaging learning environment.

During the seminar, we'll explore:

🎯 The benefits of play in martial arts for children
🎯 Practical games and activities to incorporate into your training sessions
🎯 Techniques for building confidence and discipline through playful learning
🎯 Creating a positive and inclusive atmosphere for young martial artists

As instructors, we have a unique opportunity to shape the experiences of young martial artists and help them grow not only as fighters but also as well-rounded individuals. Incorporating play into our classes can make a significant difference in their development. Here's why:

1️⃣ FUN AND ENGAGING LESSONS: Playful activities make learning enjoyable and keep kids engaged. By infusing creativity and games into our training sessions, we can captivate their attention and make the learning process exciting and memorable.

2️⃣ DEVELOPING PHYSICAL SKILLS: Playful exercises enhance children's physical fitness, coordination, and motor skills. Through interactive games, they improve their balance, agility, and overall athleticism, which are essential foundations in martial arts.

3️⃣ BOOSTING CONFIDENCE: Play empowers children to explore their abilities and overcome challenges. By designing playful scenarios that allow them to succeed, we can build their self-confidence and self-belief, positively impacting their progress in martial arts.

4️⃣ FOSTERING SOCIAL INTERACTION: Martial arts play activities encourage teamwork, communication, and healthy competition. By providing opportunities for kids to interact, collaborate, and learn from one another, we cultivate a supportive and inclusive environment.

5️⃣ CULTIVATING DISCIPLINE AND FOCUS: Integrating play into our lessons helps children develop discipline and focus in a dynamic and enjoyable way. They learn to follow instructions, concentrate on tasks, and develop the mental resilience needed in martial arts and beyond.

6️⃣ TEACHING SELF-DEFENSE: While play is important, we must also impart essential self-defense skills. By incorporating playful scenarios and drills, we can teach children how to protect themselves while emphasizing respect, restraint, and responsible martial arts practice.

And here's the best part: I'm also offering the opportunity for personal visits to your team! If you'd like me to come to your martial arts academy and deliver an interactive workshop on incorporating play in martial arts for children, I'd be thrilled to do so! We can discuss the logistics and tailor the workshop to suit your specific needs.

Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity to enhance your teaching skills and take your martial arts classes to the next level!

🥋💪 Calling all martial arts instructors! Join our free seminar on incorporating playful learning. Enhance teaching techniques and engage students. Personal visits offered. Let's empower young martial artists.

05/03/2024

Martial arts is an industry that will be enhanced by AI. It's a tool. It's a knowledge based tool.
Knowledge is useless without action.
It can act. It can do the mundane that most of us are bad at anyway!
It can not teach. It can not replace human interaction.
Also, as much as we may hate it, style doesn't matter, the instructor does.
So what was true yesterday is still true today. You're approach and teaching style is the most important thing. That's not being replaced by AI any time soon.

26/02/2024

Duck and evade. Level 1 drill good for beginners or warm ups.

25/02/2024

Social media is either full of advertisements for your club OR it shows your club for what it is.

We've found that using social media as a window and not a wall shows our future clients what we're about and encourages our existing students to engage because it's about them and our community.

Using it as a wall for simply advertising is booooooooring. That's what ads are for.

21/02/2024

TRIANGULATION of teaching. Do you already do this? Some don't. We see excellent results when we do.

20/02/2024

Jelly bean class.

15/02/2024

I've been working on something very special.
When C19 hit we had a problem. One many industries had never seen.
We fought hard to stay open and relevant in a world that could literally "switch us off"

After it was all over our biggest issue was cashflow. We needed to generate revenue for marketing, equipment and more after all savings had been depleted due to being in lockdown with little to no support.
We were a tiny club comparatively speaking and didn't have the safety net of being a large organisation.
We hadn't been established very long either so literally spent every penny on getting set up and then every penny we didn't have on staying open.

As we slowly grew over the last 3-4 years we needed revenue and so turned to open and closed events in our martial arts schools. It absolutely saved us.

So if you're struggling for cash flow or maybe you're not and just looking to make a lot of profit from events that are low cost to your members and massively boost retention and recruitment then this is for you.

I'm almost ready to launch my guide on ALL the events we run.

✅️ How we run them
✅️ Best times to run them
✅️ What to charge
✅️ All the games, rules, 100% breakdown so you don't need to think about a thing
✅️ Everything you need from gear to insurance and more

This is a complete guide to
🥋 Blaster and Pizza party
🥋 Halloween party
🥋 Summer BBQ
🥋 Open tournaments
and more.

Of course there will be a new course offer and if you'd like to get info on when it launches plus how to take advantage of the offer then simply email

[email protected]
Subject- PARTY TIME
and I'll be sure to personally contact you with details as we get closer to launch.

09/02/2024

[Kick Back With Chris Martial Arts Podcast] Head Contact for Under 18's - A conversation
https://podcastaddict.com/kick-back-with-chris-martial-arts-podcast/episode/171087535 via Podcast Addict

Come have a listen, Chris Jones, Baz Cilia, Claire King and myself sit down and discuss this very...controversial topic.

23/12/2023

For those who wish to help but do not wish to teach.
Parents who love our organisation and adult students who want to help in an official capacity.

They help with:
Meet and greet
Gradings
Marketing
Organising events
and so much more.

22/12/2023

Are your parents on board with how you're trying to improve their childs life?

07/12/2023

Something exciting brewing.

07/12/2023

What an awesome gift 👍🤜🥋

20/11/2023

I have received many messages recently on how we run parties and do we really need to run them.

Honestly? You probably should be.
They're awesome (if done properly) for the following:

👍 Retention - Students who socialise with the friends they make in your club are more likely to stay. It's about creating groups of interest and having a culture of fun.
👍 Recruitment - Opening it up to their friends allows you to invite those who are already one link away from joining your classes.
👍 Cashflow - We started them because we had a cashflow problem. We kept them because they're A LOT of fun.

I'll be sharing:
How to market and advertise
What to charge
What to spend
How to run them
All the games we play and how they're structured
ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TO SIMPLY PLUG AND PLAY INTO YOUR CLUB.

18/11/2023

I have been asked to go into a school and speak to a group of lower 6th students on the reality of running your own business and the difficulties in life after school.

My response
"How honest do you want me to be?"

I look forward to this.

18/11/2023

👀Nerf and pizza 🍕 party 🎁
Huge success. Great kids. Awesome games.
Hope you all had fun 👍🤜🥋

09/06/2023

Bye bye hair.
Me Bald is not a good look. Let's do this.

I’m Braving the Shave for Macmillan and I need your support. Check out my profile page where you can make a donation.

23/02/2023

Our strongest personal development system ever is up now to view for FREE!
- In class rewards and recognition
- Habit building
- Goal setting and planning with ex*****on
- Success in children drawn from them
- 3 forms of motivation
- Community building in your club
- MASSIVE RETENTION saving you money on recruitment.

https://fb.watch/iTDSSZ0Wpm/

23/02/2023

MASSIVE HEADS UP
tonight I will be going live in our private group. Why you might ask? Well it's simple. I'll be going through our personal development system and in class reward system step by step.
"So what? Everyone has a development system"
Great point amigos. Well let me put it this way. Our development system is the backbone of our organisation and I travel around to other clubs and charge to teach this as the retention speaks for itself. Today I invite everyone in this group to tune in and get it for nothing. No strings. No caveats. Just sharing what we do.
With the added bonus of asking questions as you go.
Switch notifications on and we'll be getting started at 6:30pm gmt.

09/02/2023

Anchor podcast - https://anchor.fm/thedigitaldojo/episodes/Dawn-Willock---Martial-Arts-GB-e1un1in

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/episode/7IkkHF7IfSQlQISeaSvSWX?si=779c699a581544d2

Dawn Willock from Martial Arts GB stops by and drops some knowledge. A little history and how Dawn got into the martial arts business as well as raising standards not only in business but also for yourself and how to navigate this as when you rasie your standards relationships around you can change.

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Website for martial arts instructor services:
www.magb.com
Dawn's Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/dawn.willock.98/
MAGB - Free group for Martial Arts instructors:
bit.ly/MAbusiness

Private Subscription Business Group for Martial Arts Instructors: Brand Build Bulletproof - email [email protected]

Podcast - Real Women Podcast - Apple & Spotify or through website: www.realwomenpodcast.co.uk

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09/02/2023

WOW WHAT AN AWESOME CONVERSATION!
The wonderful and generous Dawn gave an amazing interview/conversation on standards both business but equally as importnatly Personal standards and how this can be navigated. PLUS a looooooooooad more.
Thank you Dawn

03/02/2023

Really happy to announce that we will be having a kick*ss interview with Dawn Willock from MAGB.
The topic is going to be covering:
Raising standards in business and your personal life. The challenges vs rewards.
I am super pumped. Recording soon.

02/12/2022

IT'S CHRISTMAS MONTH!
Also it is the month of my birthday. I do love Christmas.
So I am running an AMAZING OFFER to celebrate.

Do you run classes for kids and families?
Do you have an amazing team but want to take them to the next step?

Well this is what I love to do!
For the past decade we have focused on building drills, systems and processes that keep students engaged with our programme.
We also have a massive and amazing group of trainee instructors from juniors to adults.
This is what I want to bring to you.

👍Improve retention
👍Boost recruitment
👍Maximise engagement
👍Instructor trainee programme for juniors
👍Instructor trainee programme for adults
👍Troubleshoot YOUR problems

You will not only get me to take you and your team through everything we do and train your staff but we'll also supply the digital copies of our work so you can rebrand and print any of our processes you want to replicate.

I am offering 4x1 day sessions on Sundays in 2023 (decided by you and I as to which Sunday is best) where I will travel to you and spend the day with you and your team, for 50% off.

Contact me either by typing "interested" below or private message me.

30/11/2022

Signs you are a McDojo
Latest episode we explore what this actually means. Is there some truth to this or is it time to update our thinking?

https://open.spotify.com/show/5vSlb9KEBs5n0XXvmaLLLI?si=4VeaSAqzQWa5rvzGA55o1A&utm_source=copy-link

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11/10/2022

Parent goals and what they can do for your club
Full seminar is now free on the digital dojo