07/06/2026
Okay, I’m officially starting filming of my martial arts curriculum to build out my YouTube channel AND build the Notion database for every stripe of every rank.
So far I’ve created space holders for the 550+ videos, which include everything from fundamental strikes (probably 2-3 minute videos), stripe lectures (15-30 minute videos) and mock rank exams that may be 60-120 minute videos-especially when helping students prep for the brown belt material and higher ranks.
Going to do as much as I can on my own. It will be very basic, but basic doesn’t mean bad. It’s my hope that the videos express my genuine desire to simply educate and empower as many people as I can through my martial arts system.
Will this lead to a digital dojo where people can achieve rank through distance learning? Maybe, but that’s not the goal.
The first goal is to simply preserve the material that I’ve spent the last decade learning, creating, and structuring.
The second goal is to create enough content that I can use some of the white belt material as marketing- perhaps even offering the white belt course as a FREE taster course for prospective clients.
The third goal is to creat the database for every lesson so that I can send links to future students to help them prepare for their stripe and rank exams outside of their normal training hours- this will do the most good for people that can only train once a week, and will also help those training 4-5x week as they reach and work through intermediate and advanced belts.
It should also be a great resource to help students who are preparing for their black belt examination to review early material they may have forgotten, or just need a refresher to polish before the black belt exam.
Every stripe exam is a conversation, where in the beginning ranks I will happily walk you through because if you’re testing- you’ve already shown me in class that you’re ready.
The only exams that I won’t guide you through other then to announce which section were moving into will be Brown belt and Higher.
By then you should be very very familiar with how stripe and rank tests go and shouldn’t need extra coaching.
By that time I will still have all the lectures filmed and available so students can review on their own in between classes and in preperation for rank examination.
Hoping to film everything for level 1 before fall term starts.
Anyone want to help? Ideally need 2 people. One to film, one to be a student, and myself to run the lesson.
If I can get someone who has a background in film production, that’d be amazing!!! Otherwise, I’ll focus on utility videos- that have all the requisite material, but maybe aren’t very polished.
Right now it’s more important I get them filmed. I can always edit or refilm things in the future.
Here’s the master list for videos including white through 1st Dan, and the entire little dragons ranks.(*photos attached)
Green 1 teaches the foundational material of single stick escrima, green 2 teaches foundational material for 2 sticks. These are the belts with the most material because every angle, every strike, every block, and every movement drill will be separate videos.
For escrima material of greens and reds( stick and knife respectfully) I do teach each angle/strike individually but also include the parrying and the Perry/check concepts in the same videos.
