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the best make it through and the
ones who need it the most get
weeded out.
DD: Sounds exciting, let’s keep going, what else does the program
offer?
One of the problems is, instructors
use the Ceiling Plan: that’s where
they look up at the ceiling and decide what to teach.
Roland: The most powerful thing
is the Coach’s Huddles to inspire &
educate athletes.
retention of
techniques or
an end goal of each curriculum season. Then you add the “spar or die”
mentally where students are thrown
into sparring instead of building a
solid foundation of fundamentals
and confidence. The next thing you
know, you’re losing students.
~ Roland Osborne than being
good and no
one likes you. Self Respect is powerful for building a fight athlete.
The Coach’s Huddles educate fightDD: We’ve all done that!
ers in 4 areas each month. This last
5 minutes of every class are powerRoland: Totally, haha. And you can
ful and the students leave inspired,
pull it off, but most Jr. instructors
the areas are:
can’t, and
long term, its “When the students mind shifts from:
Respect: We
This is Sparring to, This Will Change My teach students
not the best
strategy. An- Life we have done something powerful.
how to Earn
They are learning to put bullying behind Respect and
other issue
them and Live Their Best Life. That is a
with that is
Give Respect.
sparring program worth showing up ev- There is nothcongruency:
ery week for.”
There isn’t
ing worse
Our first approach is to build the
fight athlete from the inside out so
they are excited about every class
and leave empowered to win in the
ring and win in life.
Bully Defense: We teach all the athletes how to team up and end bullying in their schools and life. We
cover bully defense techniques so
they are sharp and ready for when
it occurs.
Fight Science: We teach the science
of fighting with real life data so they
are the most knowledgeable fight
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