EMPOWER KICKBOXING™ is a complete martial arts curriculum designed by Joe Lewis’ protege John Graden as a program that students can MASTER FASTER!
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PROVIDING STUDENTS WHAT THEY WANT AND NEED
1. It’s human nature to want to learn faster not slower.
Would you take your kid to a swimming school that takes longer to teach your child to swim?
2. Empower Kickboxing creates excellent black belts in less than half the time of a regular martial arts school.
3. Rather than teaching complex forms and techniques, we teach students how to master the basics of balance, striking, kicking, self-defense, and sparring.
4. We have a huge catalog of drills and scenarios with the best of martial arts, kickboxing, self-defense, weapons, and ground defense.
5. Students train hard and gain a high skill level because they don’t have to learn a lot of awkward material they DIDN’T SIGN UP FOR.
6. All ranks can be in the same class which reduces the number classes that you have to each.
7. Students are more comfortable in black sweat pants or gi pants, their belt, and a school t-shirt rather than a traditional gi aka outdoor pajamas.
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SUPER EASY TO TEACH
1. Most styles are designed to be difficult to learn and teach.
2. Most schools teach more material than necessary.
3. Most schools teach skills that are outdated and will never be repeated outside of the classroom. When is the last time you did kata for a personal workout?
WHAT IS EMPOWER KICKBOXING?
- A cutting-edge white-to-black belt martial arts curriculum created by John Graden.
- Only includes highly effective, easy to learn skills, tactics, and strategies.
- Includes exams, exam fees, and graduations.
- Reduces your teaching load by including all ranks in the same class.
- Includes Martial Arts, Kickboxing, Weapons, Self-Defense, and Grappling.
- Includes Life Skills and Martial Arts History lessons in each class.
- Does NOT include advanced, complex forms/kata.
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IS THERE A CLASS I HAVE TO TAKE TO BE READY TO TEACH?
You must complete the MATA Certification Program within year one. The $297 Certification Fee is waived for Empower Kickboxing licensees.
HOW SHOULD I PREPARE?
Start introducing the techniques to your students in class to build support and excitement. Create enthusiasm for these combinations before making changes to requirements. We will help you make the transition. In our experience, students really enjoy the combinations and see the Instant Value they bring to the class.
DO I NEED TO LEAVE MY CURRENT ORGANIZATION?
That’s entirely up to you. EKB doesn’t require you to be exclusive to EKB. Mr. Graden has always had the philosophy that the freedom to learn and grow shouldn’t be restricted by politics.
DO I NEED TO DROP MY CURRENT CURRICULUM?
No. You may and most of you will, but you may want to simply insert various elements of EKB into your current program until you get comfortable with the program.
We’re confident most schools will transition over but we’re happy to let them do it on their time.
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WHAT ABOUT RANK?
While this will vary school to school and system to system, we suggest you look at the EKB ranking system for year one. You then match up the EKB ranks with your students’ ranks.
For instance, if you have an XYZ color student who has been training for six months, that would equate to a EKB High Orange or Green belt. So, rather than having to go through six two-month semesters, this student might only do three semesters and then graduate into the Intermediate Year Two EKB Program.
CAN I CHANGE MY SCHOOL NAME TO EMPOWER KICKBOXING™?
No. Empower Kickboxing™ is the name of the branded curriculum. Think about a camera store that sells Nikon. They advertise that they sell Nikon, but the store name is not Nikon. Empower Kickboxing™ is like that. You may be USA Karate which offers the Empower Kickboxing™ curriculum.
About John Graden
Martial arts business pioneer John Graden has created a curriculum program that he and his team have designed to meet the demands of the exploding MMA market. Graden explains, “MMA is huge and is only going to get bigger but most martial arts schools do very little sparring now because they are full of kids. On the other hand, most of the MMA schools out there are pretty hard-core, which is great, but really limits the market. Pro-Star Mixed Martial Arts takes everything we’ve learned about student retention and applies it to an easy to teach MMA curriculum. The idea is to create a profitable program for schools that allows the instructor to earn more while teaching fewer hours.”
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