Hey there.
I wanted to clue everyone in on the great content we a releasing in this latest NAPMA package.

This month on the sounds of success, we get to listen to a fascinating discussion on the mind set of an entrepreneur, As Inner circle and peak performer coach Lee Milteer Interviews best selling author Gene Landrum, who among his many accomplishment, created Chuck E. Cheese.

Also, in one tragic case study we share the shocking but true story of NAPMA member Casey Estees who lost her school when an employee was accused of child molestation.

On the NAPMA Innovations DVD, We bring you a special Science of Sparring session that was conducted at the recent extreme success academy by fighting legend Joe Lewis. In this segment Mister Lewis introduced rhythm sets for teaching effective footwork, body movement and head movement to your students as part of the warm-up portion of class. He also talked at length about his deeply felt philosophies about the martial arts, fighting, and teaching. This segment also features special guest appearances from, 2008 NAPMA lifetime achievement award recipient Jeff Smith, and former recipients Grand Master Jhoon Rhee, and Ernie Reyes Sr.

Then we take you inside a Mile High Karate classroom in Parker Colorado where master of children’s instruction Runolfo Golzolas conducts a class of beginning and intermediate rank children. Just so there is no confusion, some of the students are wearing black belts in this class as a special show of support for the students who are taking their black belt and higher exam later in the week at the Mile High Karate Breckenridge Black Belt retreat. This segment shows a class in progress and teaches many lessons about classroom management, communication, spotlighting, and control of the classroom energy.

At the recent Extreme success academy, In my roll as Director of Martial arts Curriculum I conducted a training session where participant were given 10 minutes each to demonstrate their favorite original classroom training drill. This month we bring you part 2 of this presentation where NAPMA Inner circle member Joe Walker works creative Karate Block and punch combinations with a partner. Then, Instructor Gaspar of Gainsville Florida works some kicks and foot work from the Brazilian style of Capoeira Author Hearns from Cranford, NJ conducts, partner drills drawn from the Philippine style of Arnis.

And as a bonus edge MMA segment this month, we bring you Friday night Kids MMA Sparring from the Pit. With the one and only John Hackleman. The way mister Hacklman conducts this juniors sparring session may not be the ideal fit for many schools when allowing their kids to spar. For some schools, the intensity and contact will increase to quickly in these matches. It is true these are real MMA matches, but there some other interesting take home points that are important to keep in mind. First, the only time sparring of this kind for kids takes place in the school is in this class, one match at a time under the master instructor’s close supervision. Mister Hackleman himself knows all of the fighter very well and chooses each of the match ups. They wear full sized gloves and head gear, the wrestling flooring they are working on is vary safe. Mister Hacklman controls when the match begins and when it ends. The interesting thing is, the intensity and contact go up quickly but many of the matches are jus a few seconds long, with the longer clashes and matches taking place only among the clearly more experiences students who even still fought for less than a minute, This type of format more closely resembles a real encounter.

So this month it’s Rhythm Sets, a spectacular children’s instructor, the ESA Drill-o-Rama and kids MMA Sparring from the pit. And it’s all on the NAPMA Innovations DVD this month.