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What Happens When a Parent Records Your Class and Posts It Online Mid-class, the owner spots a phone propped against a bag, screen live, red dot recording. By evening, the clip is on a neighborhood Facebook group, and three families have called about their children appearing in it. A parent

What Happens When a Student Uses What You Taught Them Outside the Dojo The call comes on Monday morning. A student was in a fight over the weekend; someone got hurt, and the techniques worked exactly as taught. That is the problem. Martial arts training is designed to travel beyond

What Happens When One Student Injures Another During Class Two students drill together. A takedown goes beyond technique, and one child leaves the mat injured. The parent arrives, the questions start, and the owner realizes no policy conversation ever covered this. A student-on-student injury is legally different from a training

Why Your Dojo’s Insurance Does Not Cover the Karate Tournament You Are Hosting A dojo owner spends months planning a karate tournament. The brackets are set, the referees are booked, and hundreds of competitors and parents are coming. Then someone asks for a certificate of insurance naming the venue, and

What Martial Arts School Owners Need to Know About Product Liability Insurance for Their Pro Shop Most dojo owners think of their school as a training space, not a store. The moment you sell a mouthguard, uniform, or bottle of supplements at the front desk, however, your business takes on

What Happens to Your Income When a Dojo Closes for Repairs and How Coverage Helps Every dojo owner pictures a full mat, energized students, and steady tuition rolling in. Almost no one pictures the day a burst pipe, fire, or storm forces the doors shut for weeks. Yet when that