Want to Reduce Your Dropout Rate? Try Some Karate Games in Class
by Bill Clase
The average student dropout rate statistics for martial arts schools nationwide is a staggering eighty percent. A great many of these dropouts are children, who get bored with the repetitious type of training that the martial arts require for a high degree of proficiency.
One Florida based karate instructor has found a cure to the kid’s boredom. Michael Kinney, a 5th degree black belt in Tang Soo Do, teaches for the City of St. Petersburg Recreation Department. During his twenty years of teaching, Kinney has developed a number of games he uses in his children’s classes to keep their attention and block out boredom.
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