Welcome to The 100.
I know, this on-line campus (our website) can be a bit intimidating at first (if not downright overwhelming), but you'll soon figure out how to find --and/or get --exactly what you need, when you need it. 
This site is a multi-media "book" with many chapters and contributors. Using new Internet-based technology, we are becoming an on-line college for martial arts teachers who reject the dominant paradigm in the martial arts "industry."
We have over 1000 thought-stimulating videos and  2500 business, marketing, and management blog-posts.
Dozens of top school owners and creative martial arts activists work here in this on-line think-tank, workshop, and community. Here's a short video tour of the site.


 
Tom Callos is the chief consultant for all issues regarding business, marketing, and martial arts school / career management.

Tom Callos

Location: Placerville, California

Cell phone 530-903-0286 (call anytime, for any reason); e-mail:
tomcallos@gmail.com; find Tom on Facebook, Google Chat and Skype "TomCallos".

For additional advice also look to the following for help:

Living in a town of less than 4000 people and keeping an active student count of 200, Gary Engels is our resident small school in a small town expert. Gary also heads the 100.'s leadership programs. See www.projabi.com

Gary Engels
Location: Woodruff, Wisconsin.
715-892-3839;
garyengels@gmail.com; Facebook; Google Chat; Skype "gary.engels".

For writing, publicity, and all sorts of other things, connect with:

Stacia Kelly
Location: Virgina,
703-597-2591;
staciakelly@gmail.com;
Skype "staciakelly"; Facebook, AIM: LadySybir.

For issues of self-defense instruction, may we refer you to 100. advisor:

Peyton Quinn
www.rmcat.com

Danny Sikkens

Danny is our resident NON-PROFIT school expert -- and computer software man about town. 

Reach him at dan@aimhighma.org

Brian Williams

Heads www.ThinkKindness.org

and can answer all kindness-related strategic marketing / community service questions.

brian@thinkkindness.org

 

Upcoming Events

 

Here's the link to see all our upcoming events.

At last count, we have 958 videos on our shelves --related to school marketing, management, training, etc. Click here to go to the video library --- or click here to adda video (must be in categories as outlined above).

 

Every report is alive --as you can ask questions, make comments, or post related material in the COMMENT box below each report.

Click this link to go to our REPORTS page. Currently, we have more than 2350 reports on the 100. They are all there to serve you, now --and/or when you want them. Each report may be added to, using the comments box below each post.

 

Subjects include marketing, management, staff training, money issues, and many more.

Click this link to see the Owners Report library.

 

A report in the 100's library usually (with some exceptions) take no longer than 5 minutes to read. Below each report is a comment box; this is where you ask questions, make comments, add to the report, or ask the writer to clarify something. 

 

There is 1 to 2 years of staff-training sessions in this material, subjects every school owner must be familiar with.

Click on this link to reach our FREE TOOLS section. From a model's release to "Instructor Reminder Cards" to The 10 Living Heroes Project to full size banner artwork, we're compiling a sizable collection of school owner tools.

Click here to see our library of mitt, pad, and other drills

 

In 2010, Tom Callos filmed approximately 100 different mitt drills while he trained a black belt in preparation for an upcoming exam. All of them are stored in this library. In addition, we keep adding great training videos as we come across them. 

 

We look forward to your contributions (your favorite training/teaching methods).

Click Here to Begin Looking Over Some of The 100.'s Marketing Reports.

 

There's more about real smart marketing on this website than anyone's ever assembled in one place. Better than that, every single report is ALIVE. Ask a question or make a comment --and the report comes back to life --to grow --to educate --to inspire. 

 

According to a search on the REPORTSsite, there are currently 335 reports tagged "Marketing."

 

The goal, down the road, is to go through every report in our entire library.

By going in the upper right hand corner of The 100. site and searching "bullying," I come up with 38 pages of posts referring to the subject. This morning I went to the 38th page and started reading each post to see if the subject matter was still relevant -- and it is. There are reports on using video cameras to record "bully stories," there are specific how-to's for bullying education, and there are 37 other pages you and your staff should, page at a time, go through and sift for ideas that appeal to you, that you like, and that you are --at this time --able and ready to implement. See the search I did here, go to the SEARCH feature on our front page to see if there's a more current list. 

 

If you search "bullying" and "Callos," you will find (today, May 4, 2011) 7 pages of posts on bullying. See the search I did today, here.

 

Searching our VIDEO LIBRARY, I came up with 30 videos pertaining to bullying, here(search again for current results).

 

To see the absolutely BRILLIANT "Kids Teaching Kids" (about bully prevention) Banners, which give you tools to teach bully prevention presentations to your students, who in turn, teach the material in your community, go here. Talk to Gary Engels if you want to order our banners at $100 each, or get some coaching on how to construct your own.

Here is the link to a website/ lesson plan I built to teach young ladies --and martial arts teachers --10 Simple Lessons in Self-Defense for Girls. The site is a tool you can use for curriculum, or as a model for something you create yourself (cost me: $20 per year), and/or as a tool to train your own teachers about the kind of self-defense that this site represents.

 

If you SEARCH "10 lessons for girls"in The 100.'s search box (upper right hand corner) you will find at least 3 pages of posts about the program. If you need help implementing and/or using the site in any way, contact me (Tom Callos). 

 

Look over the site carefully, as you're observing a historic shift in thinking, methods, and education for martial arts and self-defense teachers.

The Ultimate Black Belt Test isn't just a "program" I (Tom Callos) designed, it is a radical, intelligent, and pragmatic new approach to how you go about planning and implementing a better kind of martial arts curriculum and education through your work. 

 

The UBBT isn't something you buy (it's free to members of the 100). It's something you get your head around --then weave into the fabric of your own teaching and school. You can borrow from it, you can learn from it, and you can use the ideas in it...

 

Once you learn about and live the UBBT, it will be something you use with your students. 

 

It is a program that is as authentic and genuine as they come. It is your training, it is your marketing, it is how you go from being a good instructor --to a legendary one. The ideas behind it deepen your practice --and the program is meant to evolve as YOU evolve. 

 

The UBBT doesn't exist in a box. You can't buy it. It works for you when you live it. 

 

If you desire coaching in the process, I will help you. Contact me (Tom Callos 530-903-0286 and/or skype: tomcallos). 

 

A word of caution:

The Ultimate Black Belt will change you, change the way you teach, the way you apply yourself as a master, ---and it will deepen and strengthen your practice; but it is not to be taken lightly. This is not some martial arts guru marketing scam. I do use the program to issue new rank to deserving black belts, but I never give rank to those who don't apply themselves to their test in the most extraordinary ways. The way I administer the UBBT to black belts seeking authentic new rank makes this the hardest black belt test in the world.

The Kids Teaching Kids concept, that is that you teach your leadership team students (or other young members of your school --or from your community) to teach 15 minute presentations on subjects that your community needs (subjects of importance and value), is simply the most brilliant teaching / marketing tool you may ever meet. 

 

That you can teach your kids to teach things that greatly benefit them (leadership, speaking, management, and promotion skills) --and that the very things that help them --help educate other young people (children defend themselves with their heads), AND that the whole program represents your school in the BEST POSSIBLE light. Well, that's what we call "ingenious."

 

We've developed 2 sets of five, 5-foot-tall, 2-foot-wide banners that serve as a backdrop "set" and "flash-cards" for the presentations (What is a Hero and Stop Bullying now). We've written scripts and designed very fine ways to mobilize your audience once a presentation is given. We also have a number of members in The 100. who are working these programs right now --and successfully. 

 

If you have a subject you'd like help in developing as a Kids teaching Kids concept, well ---we're waiting! See Tom Callos for help. 

 

For the coaching and instructions you need to make this a part of your school / marketing / teaching program, see either  Tom Callos or Gary Engels of The 100. Here's a link to a more thorough explanation of the program.

 

 

Stop, look, and listen --as you're about to learn of one of our generations most powerful and important innovations in martial arts school management and education (No BS). This is to VIP passes, birthday parties, sleep-overs, fliers, and referral contests what a handful of mud is the the Grand Canyon. 

 

Note: I was purposely conservative in my description so as not to exaggerate the importance of the idea. 

 

Project Based Leadership Training (PBLT) in the concept best described this way: "Out of the dojo and into the world." --Tom Callos

 

Tom Callos designed PBLT after seeing the martial arts industry promoting the selling of leadership classes, courses, and program --without offering any substantive leadership curriculum. PBLT is the backbone of the Ultimate Black Belt Test and The 100.  --as it is marketing, curriculum, and quantifiable evidence that we, indeed, both teach "leadership" and walk the talk of our philosophy.

 

See a brilliant video that Gary Engels posted on PBLT here.

 

A search of "Project Based Leadership Training" in the SEARCH box of The 100. turns up 7 pages of material to review. Gary Engels oversees PBLT in general --and if you need coaching in the what, where, why, and how of PBLT, reach out to him or coach Tom Callos.

 

Once you head on this path, using PBLT as a base for your curriculum, marketing, and education programs, you will step up to a new category of education and value to your community. PBLT is an extensive, long term career defining project in itself --and it is changing the face of martial arts education in the world.

The Empty Cup Curriculum (ECC), conceived by Tom Callos, is an approach to designing more intelligent and effective martial arts school curriculum.  

 

In ECC, "Emptying Your Cup" is a part of the curriculum building process (in this "school of thought"), and so no canvas is permanent --the painter can, at any time, decide to paint over the current work, change its direction, and/or start a new canvas.

 

As a teacher / crafts-person, each student you work with might be considered his or her own canvas --and as in a "photo mosaic," each individual canvas comes together to make a "picture" of your work in its entirety.

 

NOTE: This idea --and the verbiage connected to it --is uniquely "100.” The Ultimate Black Belt Test is an example of ECC. Members who wish to embrace this concept and approach to curriculum design, can get coaching from Tom Callos.

The Dietary Self-Defense Program

One of the missions of The 100., as a “movement,”  is to have a significant effect on the international martial arts community --with regards to the idea of “what is self-defense?”

 

 

A healthy diet, in today’s world, is more relevant to self-defense that any kick, block, punch, or grappling maneuver.

Our goal, collectively, is to bring curriculum and food-education to the martial arts in such a way as to permanently link diet and self-defense in the mind of the general public. You can, as a member of The 100., participate in this program (which has significant marketing value) --and receive coaching from Tom Callos in implementation.

 

Coach Tom Callos contacted one of the preeminent anger management coaches in the world, Dr. Tony Fiore, and together they crafted a legitimate training program for martial arts teachers to learn --and be certified in --anger control. 

 

This on-line educational course (fee involved) is the first of its kind --and gives the intelligent school owner and his/her staff something of great value to represent and teach in his/her community. 

 

Begin the process by visiting The Anger Coach Online Info site.

 

See coach Tom Callos for personal help in creating a marketing and community education program based on this information.

Thinkkindness.orgis the brainchild of West Coast black belt Brian Williams --a student of Coach Tom Callos and part of the management team of The 100. 

 

Brian's work on behalf of members of The 100., school owners, is most amazing. Write / contact Brian for information--and members of The 100. are highly  encouraged to represent kindness and ThinkKindness.org in their own communities. 

 

 

The 100. advocates complete financial transparency with regards to pricing and programs. See a statement about that, here. You may use this link and/or borrow any or all of the idea - to use as you see fit. The 100. should/must be known for leading the industry in matters of honesty/integrity.