From: eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com To: eskrima-digest@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Subject: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #406 Reply-To: eskrima@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Errors-To: eskrima-digest-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Precedence: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest Mon, 21 Aug 2000 Vol 07 : Num 406 In this issue: eskrima: FMA School eskrima: Re: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #405 eskrima: Stand alone schools eskrima: Re: schools eskrima: Students eskrima: . ========================================================================== Eskrima-Digest, serving the Internet since June 1994. 1100 members strong! Copyright 1994-2000: Ray Terry, the Martial Arts Resource, Inayan Eskrima Replying to this message will NOT unsubscribe you. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe eskrima-digest" (no quotes) in the body (top line, left justified) of a "plain text" e-mail addressed to majordomo@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com. To send e-mail to this list use eskrima@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com See the Filipino Martial Arts (FMA) FAQ and online search the last five years worth of digest issues at http://www.MartialArtsResource.com Mabuhay ang eskrima! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: SolAndes@aol.com Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 10:51:48 EDT Subject: eskrima: FMA School For about a year I ran a school that taught only FMA and Cardio Kickboxing and was pretty financially successful with it. 80% of the students were adults and I ended up closing the place to go back to grad school. Couple of random tips to make it successful: 1. Offer a separate class in empty hands training (pangamot, panantukan, dumog, ect.). Some people aren't interested in learning weapons and just want the empty hands training for various reasons. Even the students I had who studied the weapons appreciated that there was a class on just the MT hands of FMA. The pangamot I learned from Guro Dong Cuesta was a kick-boxing structure with lots of trapping, locks, footwork, throws and "dirty" tactics. Right there you have an entire MT hands curriculum that most shopping mall dojos would be envious of. You can take the MT hands curriculum and categorize the techniques into levels so there is a learning progression for the students. 2. Have an exercise program. It doesn't have to be tae-bo (although the tae-bo program i had was a huge success), I've found that pilates, yoga, and other health club offerings can be very profitable. The FMA students will like it because it will help with their conditioning and you'll find that many of the non-FMA students will convert to the FMA programs after being in your school for a while. 3. The kids class I had was about 80% pangamot with the weapons training being mostly disarms and counters to weapon attacks. I can't see the parents of an 8 year old being happy with their kid learing to knife fight or trash someone with a stick. 4. Stuff that the adults liked: focus pad training, a gradual learing progression that wasn't too frustrating, an emphasis on conditioning, DRUM MUSIC, not having to wear uniforms or go barefoot. The fact that my students didn't wear belts helped reduce the intimidation factor that comes with martial arts heirarchies and made the school feel more like a family with everyone being equal (my opinion). I did give rank in Doce Pares though to those that earned it, they just didn't wear a belt. Ken Andes ------------------------------ From: "Jason Inay" Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 16:03:15 GMT Subject: eskrima: Re: Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #405 Hi All, I teach only one system and need only 5 or so students to take care of my costs. We use drums in class occasionaly, hardly ever bother with recorded music at all. I have had no need to supliment the curriculum with anything else. Oh and we do Full Contact Spar. Jason ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ From: slbedell@webtv.net (Sheldon Bedell) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 13:39:53 -0400 (EDT) Subject: eskrima: Stand alone schools In New Hampshire Master George Chartier has been running a stand alone school of Sikaran for over thirty years. It is located in the small town of Ashland but draws students from a large area. To the best of my knowledge it is the oldest running school in N.H, ------------------------------ From: Chad Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:00:16 -0700 (PDT) Subject: eskrima: Re: schools Regarding schools...Does anyone here hava a FMA gym type of school? A place where people can go not only to learn, but to work out as well. A place open maybe 5 nights a week plus Saturday almost all day long. A place you can work out on the heavy bags, where you have focus mits, thai pads, maybe a wing chun dummy, some mats, a "fighting" area, shower/locker room. Couple of different people could teach on different nights. Would the cost of running something like this be a lot more? Would this type of school generate more interest from some of the students that are here on the digest? A place where you could go to sweat and get some lumps and bruises. Just kidding on that last part.....hehehe. ===== Chad chad@fullcontacthi.com Full Contact Stickfighting Hawaii http://www.fullcontacthi.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ From: Bladewerks@aol.com Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:54:18 EDT Subject: eskrima: Students This is an interesting thread.I tried for approximatly 5 years to get one going.I started in my parking lot in front of my appartment.Yes the other tenants thought i was strange but hey, you have to be known for something. My goal was to get enough paying students going($30per month at the time) and then move into a place when i wouldnt have a lot of overhead.I figured 30 would have done it(15 in each class)Well unfortunantly it never happened.I got to 15--20 and then for various reasons it just hovered there for ever. All students were adults.One dedicated female the rest guys.Children would have been out of the question.Classes were a blend of Takido( a hybrid blend from a local instructors school) and Modern arnis with a lot of JKD,Inosanto blend.The students were dedicated but circumstances of life dictated that i had to move out of town. Its hard to see an Arnis school keeping the doors open to be honest(unless you pay out of your own pocket)unless you are somewhat of a famous grandmaster of some sort.If you are mearly a good Arnis loving instructor I think you will have to offer other things.Childrens classes,womens self-defense,another"Karate" type style with Arnis added in.Although I know that there are a few exceptions to this rule.One could just be content with the few dedicated students that you teach in your backyard or garage.Sad but true. Perhaps someday this will change. Barry Meadows ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 20:26:37 PDT Subject: eskrima: . ------------------------------ End of Inayan_Eskrima/FMA-Digest V7 #406 **************************************** To unsubscribe from the eskrima-digest send the command: unsubscribe eskrima-digest -or- unsubscribe eskrima-digest your.old@address in the BODY of an email (top line, left justified) addressed to majordomo@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com. Old digest issues are available via ftp://ftp.martialartsresource.com. Copyright 1994-2000: Ray Terry and the Martial Arts Resource Standard disclaimers apply.