dubD is right - catering to the maistream is a large part of the current state of CMA. You lower training standards, make things easier...sure, you retain students, but what about the quality of those students? I would rather work a full time job and teach 4 good students out of my house than to teach watered down martial arts to alot of people full time. Take a look a sport fighting. It's thriving now and doesn't cater to the mainstream. They have to train you hard if you will have any chance at all in competition, and that continually raises the standards of training.
The idea is not to lower standards to cater to the mainstream, but to make the mainstream step up to a higher standard. If you have to, use contracts. In bjj, we have contracts. of you sign up for 6 months and quit after two weeks because training for 3 hours 4 days (and sometimes 5) per week is too hard, then it's your loss because you still have to pay. If they don't want to train hard and become better at what they are doing, then forget them. Those that stay will reap the benefits of hard training.
Last edited by SevenStar; 12-12-2002 at 11:07 PM.
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