2023-06-19

Teaching my regular classes at the Ross Farnsworth - East Valley YMCA.

Classes are still small in the weeks after school lets out for the summer, and I have at least three students on vacation. That’s keeping class sizes smallish, which has what I believe to be an unfortunate side effect. It seems to me that karate classes have a “critical mass”, below which it’s hard to recruit new students. For example, when a potential student shows up to watch or particpate in class, and there are only two students in the class, it seems to discourage them from joining. The trick, then, is reaching that “magic” number of students.