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and listen. Stars, stickers, high-fives and cheers from the audience are
incredible motivators for our youngest students as they build life skills
and get that head start before even starting kindergarten.

Our Taekwondo program is for children, teens, adults and families. The
Hapkido program is idea for teens, adults, law enforcement and military
personnel.

Our Lady Tigers program teaches specialized women’s self de-
fense. This program is unique in that it teaches the use of every
day items that may be used as weapons of self defense: a cell
phone, ATM card, shoe, etc. Still haunted by the advice
of the police officer decades ago, if these items were
taken away by the bad guy, it is still just a shoe.

What are your new projects?

Being known as the largest martial arts school in the world brings us a
lot of attention and imitation. Local competitors are constantly repeating
our offers, trying to replicate our programs and so on. I am not alone.
Other school owners have experienced the same situation and have be-
come very frustrated. I look at this as another opportunity. It keeps me
on my toes. I am constantly improving our program, making it better
and moving forward. Anything copied today is our old news. To keep
our school on top, I stay very active in learning about new products,
technology and services. In addition to traditional training on
the mat, our students learn from online videos to practice at
home, online flash cards for terminology, and interactive
online quizzes and mobile applications. I keep our ins-
tructors on top by investing in their continued training.
I want them always improving their skills. I send them
to Korea and various locations for intensive training
and host a wide variety of guest master instructors to
teach at our school. I have stepped up my personal
training by becoming a private student to the masters
I look up to. One of these Grandmasters is Rick Mo

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