The Martial Arts Game: A New Business, Teaching & Coaching Model For The 21st Century Martial Arts-Life® Coach [Paperback]

Rodney King (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 29, 2008

Introducing the GAME: a totally new way to run a successful martial arts business. Combing ancient wisdom, lessons from performance coaching and modern day marketing techniques, the GAME will provide you with everything you need to take your business into the 21st century.

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About the Author

For over a decade and a half Rodney King has coached world champion athletes to become the best they can be in the ring. He has consulted with Special Force Military Units on helping them define and implement a winning performance mental game for the battlefield. He has acted as a Performance Coach for countless CEOs, business leaders and inspiring entrepreneurs to find their center of power, manage their fears, anger and frustration and help them develop into Embodied-Warriors for the boardroom. As a Somatic Movement Educator and Martial Arts-Life Coach, Rodney offers a unique program of warriorship tools, grounded in training the body through martial arts to refocus the mind. He lives in South Africa with his wife and two sons. You can visit Rodney at his personal website and home on the web at: http://www.martialartslife.info

Product Details

• Paperback: 138 pages
• Publisher: Rodney King (April 29, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 062040664X
• ISBN-13: 978-0620406642
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,516,791 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good information, October 19, 2009

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S. Granger "Book Junkie" (Denver, CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Martial Arts Game: A New Business, Teaching & Coaching Model For The 21st Century Martial Arts-Life® Coach (Paperback)

I'd say overall a pretty decent book. It's kinda open ended because he doesn't want to tell you how to run your business. I agree with the concept of treating your students like clients and identifying what it is that brings them there (then working on accomplishing those goals). But I'm not convinced that the smaller, higher priced, semi-private classes is the best answer. I can teach 200 the same way I can teach 5 as long as they're in line going through the class with me. But they're not going to get 1 on 1 attention to the same level as a smaller client base. So if that's something you want to include in your school, personal 1 on 1 focus, identifying, setting, and achieving goals with each client, I'd say he's going about it in a reasonable way. I just think you can accomplish the same thing with private lessons. So like I said, good book, not sure I agree with everything.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good read with a fresh look at teaching martial arts., December 30, 2010

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This review is from: The Martial Arts Game: A New Business, Teaching & Coaching Model For The 21st Century Martial Arts-Life® Coach (Paperback)

An earlier review said that "It is for whom considers Teaching Martial Art a business plan and not a way of life." I disagree. While he does go over the marketing of the business side, it is mainly about the importance of your role as a coach (notice I didn't say instructor), and that martial arts should be more of an approach at life than just the competitive and fighting art that many see it as today. Its just a different "way of life" than traditional martial arts teach, as many of those are based on life in the past.

While some of the ideas in this book are similar to ones I've had before, they are definitely well-refined. It helped to strengthen some of my views, changed some, and showed me some completely new ones as well. Definitely a good book for someone looking to start teaching martial arts and any form of coaching for that matter.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All Meat, No Fat, June 4, 2008

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Nathan Wagar (U.S. Army, Iraq) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Martial Arts Game: A New Business, Teaching & Coaching Model For The 21st Century Martial Arts-Life® Coach (Paperback)

This book focuses on what really needs to be changed if you are considering operating your own martial arts studio. It outlines what the old method was, why it is no longer effective in meeting the needs of today's clients, and how to make the changes necessary to provide a positive training environment that will also be successful as a business venture. If you want to make a living doing what you love, this book is NECESSARY. All meat, no fat, with an easy-to-read format that makes it easy to breeze through (I finished it in a couple hours). But there is enough solid conceptual material to warrant re-reading many times. Rodney's credentials are impeccable, his experience in the coaching arena is well-attested, and his strategies are all laid out for you here. I strongly recommend it.