Dynamic Training: Education Through Action

This year’s training sessions promise to be the best yet with exciting features to enhance your experience!

  • From a raised platform, your instructor will demonstrate exciting new techniques, taking your training to a whole new level.
  • Leave the business attire in your hotel room and dress to experience hands-on learning in every training.
  • Refresh old skills and learn new ones while being entertained, educated and empowered.

You will be transformed by these interactive training sessions!

Dan Henderson
Clinching Victory: Dominating the Clinch Position in MMA
Come train with UFC's world-renowned mixed martial artist Dan Henderson. Henderson will take you above and beyond the MMA world with techniques and skills that make him the ONLY athlete that holds the most tournament titles to date.
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John Hackleman
Step into The Pit
Experience Hackleman's brand of mixed martial arts as he demonstrates his dynamic championship style. You'll enjoy hands-on mixed martial arts training that will leave you both educated and inspired. Don't miss this chance to step into the pit with Hackleman.
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Fumio Demura
Traditional Open Hand Okinawan Training
Learn world-class techniques of traditional open hand Okinawan training. Fumio Demura will provide methods for developing and transforming your knowledge of traditional Okinawan training through a hands on session that will sharpen your skills as a martial artist.
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Matt Hughes
Legendary MMA Training with Matt Hughes
Learn the moves that have made Matt Hughes a legend in MMA. From stand-up fighting to takedowns and submissions, this training will cover it all!
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Richard Bustillo
Mastering the Three Rs: Response, Reaction and Reflex
Teach your students to stop an immediate threat with simultaneous Response, Reaction and Reflex. Various exercises will be demonstrated to employ the personal weapons of hands, feet, knees and elbow strikes against any aggressor.
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Justo Dieguez & Andy Norman
The Transformation of Practical Street Defense
The Keysi Fighting Method (KFM) was featured in films such as "Batman Begins" and its upcoming sequel, "The Dark Knight". When you attend this training, you'll experience why it was chosen for these films' fight sequences. Plus, you'll learn how to transform "predator and prey" in your own self-defense instruction!
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Herb Perez
Traditional Taekwondo Training
Herb Perez will power-up this training session with high energy traditional Taekwondo skills and drills. Participants learn cutting edge drills that they can use in any classroom situation to build their fighting skills sets.
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Ricardo Liborio
The Foundations of MMA: Striking, Takedowns and Ground Skills
Join American Top Team owner, Ricardo Liborio, for a challenging workout with 20 minute segments on standing strikes, takedowns and ground skills. You'll benefit from Liborio's extensive MMA experience, and you'll leave this training excited and energzied to employ these techniques in your own school.
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Master Toddy & Dawn Boyd
Maximum Training with Muay Thai
Through this seminar, you will learn how to implement a Muay Thai program with a different program for each day of the week. You'll walk away knowing how to prepare for sparring, in addition to how to use a kicking bag and Thai pads. The fundamentals of Muay Thai start here.
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Bill Wallace
All Things Kicking: Maximum Flexibilty and Speed
Sharpen your skills by training with Bill Wallace! Bill will teach the fundamentals of how to max out your flexibility to improve the height and speed of your kicks. With this training, you'll be able to improve your techniques, as well as your students' techniques.
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Energetic Instructor Training: Ignite Your Students

The new, dynamic instruction seminars you’ll experience this year will both educate and inspire you. In every session, you’ll learn:

  • Invaluable information and innovative applications to revitalize your teaching approach.
  • Martial arts drills and routines you can immediately implement.
  • How to ignite your students with passion and excitement for martial arts.

Come prepared to be inspired and energized!

Dave Kovar
Be A World-Class Instructor
The keys to becoming a world-class instructor are within your grasp with this insightful seminar! In this session, Dave Kovar will explain how to reach this goal by being consistent, energetic, compassionate, organized and passionate about what you teach. You won't want to miss this opportunity to find out what it takes to be consistently on top of your game!
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Jason David Frank
Selling with Passion
Many times in business we let our heads overpower our hearts, and our strongest tool—our passion—gets lost in the mix. Passion is everyone's strongest sales tool. Learn how to make your passion work for you!
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Dana Abbott
How to Teach a Padded Weapons Curriculum
Padded weapons classes are fun and exciting, because students can participate in weapons training with less risk of pain or injury. Experience the excitement as you take a padded weapon through its paces while learning retention training sets, games and drills. This hands-on seminar will answer all your questions about padded weapons training!
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Kimber Hill
Transforming Your Pre-School Chaos into Pre-School Management
This interactive workshop is designed to empower you and your class through a thorough understanding of the physical, mental, social, and emotional abilities and needs of the preschool child. Additionally, Ms. Hill will cover specific do’s and don’ts, teaching techniques, behavioral guidelines, staffing requirements and training room environments that will transform preschool chaos into classroom management.
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Steven Holliday
Breathe New Life into Your Warm-Ups
Learn 20 energizing warm-ups to wake up your students! Don't let routine warm-ups become an energy drain for your students. Steven Holliday will show you how to generate excitement and raise the energy levels in your students and instructors. Never have a boring warm-up again!
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Roger Krahl
Bringing the Art of MMA to Kids
Mixed Martial Arts is not just for adults anymore! Join American Top Team professional fighter, coach and school owner, Roger Krahl, as you learn how to teach MMA to kids, overcome the stereotype that MMA is for adults only, and how to pitch MMA to students in your school and community.
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Matt Mullins
Transforming Your Demo Team
Want to learn the secrets of transformation for your demo team? Sideswipe's Matt Mullins will educate you on the items, skills and techniques you need to transform your demo team and take them to the next level and beyond. Learn what has made Matt Mullins and Sideswipe so successful by training with the pro!
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Roland Osborne
20 Top Level Teaching Techniques
Implement these top 20 teaching techniques to gain the edge on your competition and the best floor in your city. Roland has traveled the world to many of the most successful schools, and now he brings you the "Best 20" list of the must have drills, teaching techniques and floor management skills. This is a "must attend" class!
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Dr. Robyn Silverman
Transforming Your Quitters into Keepers
No school is immune to retention issues, but there is something you can do about it. This seminar will provide school owners and staff with strategies to lay the groundwork for commitment and what to say the next time you're faced with a quitter. You can turn those quitters into keepers!
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Progressive Business: Tactics and Strategies

Business today is not what it used to be, and as your customer changes, so must your approach. However, many business owners find it hard to know where to start. In these helpful seminars:

  • The industy’s leading professionals will give you valuable tips and tricks to be successful.
  • You’ll receive the tools you need to grow and develop your business.
  • Real-life examples will help you absorb and apply what you learn.

Within these seminars, the skills to grow your business are at your fingertips!

Charlie Foxman
Transforming Community Service into Additional Revenue
Having a strong, vibrant kid's class is a must when you're running a school, but getting kids in the door takes work. You have to compete with a lot of other venues, so you must find a way to stand out in the crowd. This seminar will teach you how to become a Community Safe School, giving you that upper hand you need when marketing your kids programs!
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Mark Dumas
Multiply Your Success with Multiple Schools
Multiply the success of your original school with a second location without committing common mistakes. You'll learn how to ensure that your new school works as smoothly as the original, plus how to train and retain key staff members.
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Rory Aplanalp
Be Proactive in a Reactive World: The Success Factor
Learn how to harness the power of the present moment to create the future you desire in this lively, humorous and highly interactive seminar. You'll be taught how to build your momentum towards success and how to turn "no control" situations into "total control" situations. Plus, you'll immediately apply what you've learned with three memorable "take-aways" to start your business in the right direction.
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Allie Alberigo
Boost Your Bottom Line
Every school, small or large, is able to survive based on the bottom line. The key to a healthy school is developing the relationship with the client and a communication network. Learn how to use basic systems to quadruple your income in the next 24 months.
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Randy Holeman
The Martial Mind: Take Your Life from Ordinary to Extraordinary with a Millionaire Mindset
Everyone knows someone who is a super achiever—that person who seems to be able to make any challenge result in success. Randy Holeman will teach the fundamental science of how super achievers perform at these peak levels in the business and personal arena. With these Martial Mind tools, anyone can learn how to transform their life from ordinary to extraordinary!
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Tommy Lee
The Communication Key: Connecting With Parents
Many instructors and school owners find it difficult to bridge the communication gap between themselves and a students parents. Learn how a simple tool, “Student Evaluations”, can help actually retain, renew and/or upgrade a student that normally would have quit. Take those challenges and make them successes. If you want to grow your studio, you cannot miss this seminar. Improve your reputation and your income by implementing this simple and PROVEN process.
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Kathy Olevsky
Small Schools on the Rise: Grow to the Next Level
Learn how to grow a small school into a medium sized school with the systems that will keep students coming in and get them to stay. You'll find out what changes are needed to become a larger school, and you'll learn how merchandise sales and program pricing will transform your school.
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Frank Sahlein
Children's Activity Centers: How to Co-Exist
In a market saturated with activities for children, it's important to know how to co-exist while still staying profitable. You'll explore a comparison of the industries of martial arts, gymnastics, cheerleading, dance and swimming, and you'll learn which factors impact the bottom dollar. You won't want to miss out on the beneficial insight you'll gain at this unique and thought-provoking seminar.
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Keith Scott
5 Keys For Back-To-School Season
Back to school is arguably the most important time of the year for your school. A powerful back to school campaign will lead to a surge in enrollments, so you need to have a full-proof plan. In this seminar, you'll learn various strategies that can generate thousands of dollars in revenue year after year.
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Results-Driven Marketing: Planning and Execution

Marketing is undeniably one of the keys to the success of your business, and there’s no better way to learn than from those who have successfully marketed their businesses. These practical and insightful seminars will teach you:

  • What it takes to get results from your marketing.
  • Step-by-step methods to market your business, from the initial planning stages to the execution and follow-through.
  • How to translate your passion for martial arts into a successful marketing campaign.

You will be motivated and challenged to embrace marketing and all it can do for your business!

Steve LaVallee
Timing is Everything: How to Make it Work for You
Time management can make or break even the most talented martial artist. Find out what you need to stay on track with these techniques to successful time management.
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Jason Flame
Million Dollar Marketing on a Dime Budget
Marketing goes far beyond an ad in the local paper, but you don't have to spend a fortune along the way. Help your school reach its full potential with these creative, inexpensive tricks that will serve as powerful tools in marketing your school.
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Fariborz Azhakh
Make Money in Your Sleep: 8 Free Internet Strategies
Don't be afraid of the internet! Instead, use it to make your school grow. You'll learn eight new FREE web services that will dramatically improve your customer service, bring in new students and make you money. Don't spend another penny on marketing, advertising and promotions until you've attended this class!
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Robby Beard
The Marketing Mindset
To be successful, you must learn the steps to effective marketing. Mr. Beard will take you step-by-step through developing the mindset necessary to developing marketing and advertising that will produce top results.
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Michael Brooks
Turn Special Events into Money-Making Machines
Increase your profits with little to no increased effort! This presentation will teach school owners and managers how to use the integrated sales process to maximize the profit centers at their school. Transform your bottom line with this informative seminar!
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Kathy Marlor
Win the Marketing Battle
Being a great marketer, like being a great fighter, requires proper timing, execution and the correct use of techniques. Discover how to overcome your marketing obstacles, create appropriate offers and instill urgency to maximize the number of inquiries you receive.
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Mike Metzger
Transforming Prospects to Profit
Your success relies on growing your customer base. This seminar will teach you how to get potential customers coming to you and how to turn those leads into students. The systems and methods you will learn will not only be easy to implement in your school, but they will also be simple to teach to your staff.
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Tom Patire
The Secrets of Marketing for Mass Appeal
In this seminar, Tom Patire will take you on a trip through the eyes of the mainstream, and you'll discover the secrets of marketing for mass appeal. His approach has helped hundreds of school owners add a secondary revenue source to their bottom line. If you are interested in changing with the times, this seminar is for you!
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Barry Van Over
Become a Marketing Master
You know you have to market your school for it to be successful. However, too many school owners follow the wrong path when it comes to marketing. In this seminar, we will outline and organize a systemized marketing campaign that you can implement immediately for results!
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