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8 R's to an Awesome Fall with Hanshi Dave Kovar

With nearly 50 years of experience as a successful school owner, instructor, and mentor to martial arts professionals around the world, Dave Kovar brings a practical and time-tested perspective to fall enrollment and retention. In this webinar, he'll walk through his Eight R's framework—refreshing your facility, refocusing your team after summer, retraining front desk and instructor conversations, and re-motivating, re-educating, reactivating, recruiting, and retaining students—giving you a complete, step-by-step plan for making this your school's best back-to-school season yet.

July 14, 2026 12:00 PM

Three people sitting in a gymnasium, smiling and holding various arts and crafts items in front of a large, colorful mural.

Organizer:

Hannah Clark

Hosts and Guests

Meet the Experts

Learn from experienced industry professionals who bring practical insights, real-world examples, and proven strategies to help gym owners run better businesses.

Guests:

Hanshi Dave Kovar

Kovar Systems

Hanshi Dave Kovar has been a prolific author and has produced countless video, online, and written series on curriculum, teaching, business systems, and more. His methods have been shared through a long list of industry organizations. He founded ProMAC, the Professional Martial Arts College, to help share a deeper level of what he’s learned about running a successful martial arts business with school owners around the globe. In 2010, he was honored to be named the recipient of the Martial Arts Industry Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Clearly, his impact in the industry has been widely felt through the last four decades.

Key Takeaways

This webinar is built for martial arts school owners—especially BJJ gym owners—who want a clear, actionable plan for the fall season instead of another generic marketing checklist. You'll learn how to:

Refresh — How to give your facility a facelift before students walk back through the door.
Refocus — How to re-establish good habits and set clear goals for the rest of the year.
Retrain — How to sharpen inquiries, tours, intros, and rank promotion conversations.
Re-motivate — How to re-engage students back from summer break and sporadic attendance.
Re-educate — How to remind your community why martial arts matters.
Reactivate — How to win back lapsed members with a simple outreach sequence.
Recruit — How to turn referrals, old leads, and back-to-school events into new students.
Retain — How to build the habits that keep students training for the long term.