The Black Belt Retention Report is the fourth, and last, in a series of reports provided by Roland Osborne and featured throughout the 2006 issues of NAPMA NOW.

“It’s Much Easier to Pull than Push Your Students to Success” explains how to squeeze every little bit of ability from your students and motivate them to expend their total energy to reach peak performance.

Mr. Osborne provides a framework to teach your students five important Black Belt qualities: intensity, power, speed, balance (stance) and form, as well as four techniques to pull them to the success you know they can achieve.

NAPMA member Manny Cabrera has authored a Black Belt Promotions Report about how to use birthday parties as excellent lead generators.

His one-a-month party is free to students and 20 of their guests, allowing him to compete with traditional birthday party venues, such as specialty pizza restaurants and local skating rinks and other businesses that cater to the birthday party market. His birthday parties typically generate 50 to 100 new leads.

The Edge MMA Curriculum Outline, “Foundation for Hold-Downs,” is a brief, written form of the drills and information Terry Riggs presents on this month’s NAPMA Innovations DVD segment.

The Outline lists the primary hold-downs a student must learn as a foundation, with complete step-by-step instructions that are easy to introduce into your classroom.

Tom Callos has redefined NAPMA’s G.O.L.D. Team Leadership Report this month. He has provided a bonus video segment, accessible on YouTube.com, of his presentation of this month’s Report, “When It Comes to Leadership Training, Repetition Is Everything.

Mr. Callos explains that is just as important for your Leadership Team members to understand (and recite) the benefits you promote in your selling program and the mental and attitude concepts you teach as the physical elements of your curriculum.

Mr. Callos helps you apply the same teaching techniques you use to teach physical skills to train your Leadership Team members these other important skills. He includes tips, techniques and team assignments to accomplish this important part of your Leadership Team’s training.

Few concepts are as important for your students to understand than Wisdom; and NAPMA member Solomon Brenner presents another outstanding Words of the Week to help you teach that concept.

The first lesson focuses on how important it is to strive to be wiser today than yesterday and why experience is a primary element of being wise.

Lesson two helps to distinguish the difference between knowledge and wisdom, with wisdom as the simple application of what you know.

The third lesson teaches that very important idea that most wisdom is a result of failures, not successes.

Lesson four is based on Benjamin Franklin’s saying, “The doors of wisdom are never shut.” Acquiring knowledge and wisdom never stops and one must be open-minded and be willing to learn from anyone and from every experience in life.