I want to set up a McDojo. I want 15 different belt colors and I need to be able to charge for each promotion to a different color. I want moms and kids that love the power rangers to be attracted.
On the sign I'll list stuff like TKD, Karate, Shaolin Kung Fu, and Ninjitsu. Anything to get them in the door.
My name will be _______Family Martial Arts. I'll get nice little uniforms with kick ass patches of some guy throwing a TKD kick straight up in the air.
In reality, I'll just be teaching Thai Boxing,Boxing,Wrestling, Judo and BJJ.
I want to make money like McDojo, just not teach crap.
Do you think this could work? I false McDojo. It looks like a McDojo, just doesn't train what they train.
"On the sign I'll list stuff like TKD, Karate, Shaolin Kung Fu, and Ninjitsu. Anything to get them in the door."
respectfully, if you can't promote what you REALLY do, you have no business teaching IMO
McDojo's don't make business because they teach TKD or made up Karate. They make money because they promote the shit out of the crap they do at prices anybody can afford...TKD for $19.95 uniform included is an example...also, they take kids to ALOT of tournaments..they get parents involved..they have extra activities with parents getting involved..they pull shitty fundraisers....all that makes them money and gets kids in the door...
I was at a TKD class watching my girlfriends cousins the other week. It was such BS. the class is taught around making sure the parents think their kids are actully learning self defense. the class was only 30 minutes long, i stayed to watch an adults class and it was only 30 minutes long too. their black belt teacher was showing them to knee an opponent who grabs your collar.... he could not even throw a proper knee. he can stand on one leg and kick a cup out of someones hand though... ooooohhhh nice balance!
anyways, it seemed they just wanted to make an impression on the parents and the teacher actually kept talking to the parents during class. Trying to get them to keep their kids all the way to black belt (more money for them)
Actually thats pretty much what my boxing instructor does, he may call it Karate but what he is teaching kids is in fact kickboxing, I wish my mom signed me up to a karate place like this, instead I went to a real mcdojo and learned how to perfect my horse stance.
I wonder what would happen if that dummy was a real person trying to rob the Karate guy. The guy would be laying on his ass getting pounded. A lot of these TKD "Masters" give regualar Joes a false sense of security, which can lead to them being seriously hurt. I think the guy above pulled a hamstring just attempting that kick.
ya know, i had the exact same impulse the other day. as shameful as it is to admit, i work in retail, and i recently took over a store in my company's chain that's directly next to a studio for a pretty well-known kenpo karate guy. and when i say well-known, i've actually seen this dong listed in black belt occasionally doing whatever it is those guys do.
i've also seen some of his students, and may i say that 1.) it amazes me this guy keeps making money given the fact that some of hs apparently most loyal students are fat puds who are not getting appreciably harder, and 2.) if i started a boot-camp fitness school and convinced all my lame-brained students that i was teaching them conditioing secrets passed down through many generatons of masters and pupils they'd probably be better off in the long run, and also i'd probably bank off their gullible goofiness while actually providing them with a useful service.
Actually thats pretty much what my boxing instructor does, he may call it Karate but what he is teaching kids is in fact kickboxing"
That's what I wanna' do. Get the place all Asianed up. You know, painted symbols on the walls, huge yin yang mural. I can make up a bunch of shit about how I'm a black belt in this and that. On the door it could read, Ancient Martial Arts from the Asian masters, or some other catchier phrase.
I could grow a pony tail and shave around it. A foo-man-choo mustache wouldn't hurt. I'll also have to make everyone take their shoes off at the door, since we would be so Asian.
Then just teach MMA. I don't know why it wouldn't work. I could still promote the fat puds that don't deserve it. Hell I'll have 15+ different belt colors, I'm sure I could soak the hell out of some of them for at least five belts.
Good Idea, but keep the lies. Have 5 blackbelts in all crazy arts, photoshopped pictures framed with you and prime ministers and other dignataries from around the world. You can go on about how you did special details for high profile events. Keep a ninja uniform with all assorted ninja weapons in a glass case in your dojo etc... you know what I am talking about
"I could grow a pony tail and shave around it. A foo-man-choo mustache wouldn't hurt. I'll also have to make everyone take their shoes off at the door, since we would be so Asian."
i hope you're not white, coz otherwise if i walk in your McDojo, i would think i just walked in the set of 'Wild, Wild West'....
"Good idea, but avoid the lies. Market what you are going to teach, and don't claim to have numerous black belts that you really don't have."
Screw that. That's not a McDojo then. You have to claim somehthing and not deliver, that's the point. I'll claim ancient secrets and then just deliver MMA.
You have to have a gimmick to make some real loot in the McDojo world.
