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• Commercial martial arts. These are martial sports that are taught as businesses, the primary purposes of which are to obtain and retain students, and to extract as much money from them as possible.

• Combat martial arts. These are the combat sports that are used in professional, semi-professional, or amateur fighting. The primary purpose of these arts is competitive fighting.

• Traditional martial arts. These are martial arts that are taught in ways that are as near as possible to the original arts. This is not the 19th or 20th century, so 21st century martial arts cannot be taught in exactly the same way as they were originally taught. However, rather than being watered down to something other than a true martial art, they have just adapted to the fit modern threats and the time constraints on students’ time. Sometimes traditional martial arts are taught commercially, but the schools still try to maintain the integrity of their martial arts and they usually struggle just to break even.

Now for some things to consider when deciding whether or not to pursue becoming a martial art instructor:

• What are you going to teach? Presumably, it will be the martial art in which you are currently training. If you are in a commercial martial art, this means you will be teaching children mostly, which means you will be teaching an even more watered down version of the martial art than it already taught to adults. Your main responsibility will not be to teach the martial art, but to keep students in the system and thus bringing in the money. If you are in a traditional martial art, you will still be teaching children, but your primary responsibility will be teaching the art more than with just keeping students in the system. If you are in a combat martial art, you will teaching mostly adults and will not be too concerned whether or not they keep training.

• Teaching children. In the martial arts business, the money is in teaching children, so commercial martial arts are mostly devoted to teaching children. Therefore, if you teach these sports, you must enjoy teaching children and have the patience and skills required to teach them. Traditional martial arts demand discipline and dedication, so, while there are certainly children in the system, there are not as many as in the commercial martial arts, so you must be more skilled in teaching adults.

• Martial art skills. To be a good teacher, you must be able to teach others to be skillful at the martial arts. This does not necessarily mean that you must be skillful at the martial arts or that you ever were skillful at the martial arts. While people may be initially attracted to you by the martial art skills you can perform, they will not stay with you as a student unless you can teach them the martial art skills. As you build a reputation in teaching, people may also be attracted to you by what you have taught others to do.

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