Episode 225
Ep. 225 - We Introduce Songahm Scholastic: Schools May Field Taekwondo Teams
I present Songahm Scholastic, a program that enables students to represent their schools in ATA Taekwondo competitions and to compete for scholarships. I explain that the program begins at the H.U. Lee Classic with a dedicated scholastic tournament held on Friday morning and that registration is available at atamartialarts.com for $55. We describe the competition format as a fast, track‑meet style event with age, gender, and belt divisions, and note that sparring and all individual events are included. I outline that Songahm University, in partnership with Lee College, provides certificate and associate degree pathways that can be pursued remotely by international students. We emphasize the goal of expanding participation to several hundred students within two years and the commitment to return proceeds to scholarships and competitor awards. I encourage school owners, instructors, parents, and students to register, to coordinate with their schools for excused absences, and to engage with the scholastic season as a pathway from martial arts to education and community recognition.
Takeaways:
- I described Songahm University as a Lee College program offering certificates and two year degrees that international students can complete remotely.
- We announced Songahm Scholastic as a school based competition season with monthly events culminating at ATA headquarters and scholarship awards.
- I explained the tournaments run like a track meet with six students per heat and judges advancing top competitors.
- We clarified divisions by age gender and belt color and included sparring creative forms and weapons categories for students.
- I stated registration costs fifty five dollars per student and that proceeds fund medals scholarships and future program growth.
Transcript
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Speaker B:Hey now, ladies and gentlemen, I've got an awesome special guest today going to talk to us about.
Speaker B:I want to ask a couple questions about Songam University.
Speaker B:I've mentioned it in the past, just recently, but I also wanted to make sure that we talk about this thing called song.
Speaker B:I'm scholastic, so let's see if I can do this the right way with my new transitions.
Speaker B:So here we go.
Speaker B:And we're back with senior master Hill.
Speaker B:How are you, sir?
Speaker A:Great, sir.
Speaker A:How are you?
Speaker B:I am fantastic.
Speaker B:It's wonderful to see you.
Speaker B:If.
Speaker B:If people don't know you are kind of the architect behind a lot of these tying academics in with Songam Taekwondo.
Speaker B:So we've got Songam University was kind of the first thing.
Speaker B:And then we've got the Song academic program up in Alaska and then Song I'm scholastic.
Speaker B:Not that you were the only ones.
Speaker B:There's other people in parties.
Speaker B:We don't want to leave anybody out, but you were a big part of those.
Speaker B:So before we start with Song Scholastic, because that's the thing we want to hit, you know, right away.
Speaker B:Ecuador.
Speaker B:Somebody from Ecuador tuning in today.
Speaker B:Thanks guys.
Speaker B:Nice to see you.
Speaker B:You guys just Pan Ams down there just recently.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:How's Songham University going?
Speaker C:It's going pretty well actually.
Speaker C:They are now wanting to increase the minimum enrollment from 10 to 15.
Speaker C:So Lee College is really trying to make that press, if you will, to grow the program and expand it.
Speaker C:So it's going to really take a lot of students moving forward.
Speaker C:But that's a great thing when the college recognizes that this is a viable certificate slash degree that can either a move people directly into the workforce with confidence or B allow them to continue on to their four year degree.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker B:It's a great program.
Speaker B:I think probably the best advocate for it out there is Ms. Burris.
Speaker B:She is fantastic.
Speaker B:Graduated program, getting ready, starter club.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:Doing some great things out there.
Speaker B:So I highly suggest that people check out the academic program there with Lee College.
Speaker B:I know there's talks, you know, maybe expanding, doing different things, but we want to make sure that like guys, there's so many things about it.
Speaker B:I was recently talking with somebody who is in college for a business degree and is interested in maybe doing some martial arts as a business.
Speaker B:And I was like, man, Songam University does such a good job of tying the two together where you're not just Lee, you know, you're not just doing this business degree kind of thing without the connection to how it works in a martial arts school and doing that practical work in the school.
Speaker B:So I'm telling people like it, it should be something that they, they look into.
Speaker B: to be looking into it for the: Speaker C:Spring.
Speaker C:Yes sir, definitely.
Speaker C:And so either get with me, email me, email headquarters or Lee College, Lee Edu.
Speaker C:And they are definitely trying to increase that enrollment.
Speaker C:They want to see it grow.
Speaker C:And for those that are international students, if you wish to only participate in the certificate program or the, the associate's degree, you can do that because you don't have to be in the United States to actually take that program.
Speaker C:You can do it from abroad.
Speaker C:So.
Speaker B:That's super cool because I know, you know, I don't know much about the politics of it, but I know, you know, getting to the US is not as easy as it used to be, but getting a degree, you know, we've got so many people in South America, in Europe that are part of the ata, and being able to get a US education with, you know, a degree from the US with Song Taekwondo on top of it, I mean, seems like a no brainer.
Speaker C:Yeah, it's really a phenomenal feat.
Speaker C:And so we just.
Speaker C:I just want to first say thank you to the Master's Council and everybody involved that allowed us to pursue this.
Speaker C:And so when you look at it, not only does it allow for certificates, it does allow for a two year degree.
Speaker C:But then if you wish to continue on, and like you said, it is lined up for business, our marketing, entrepreneurship, or what we now call community health as another pathway.
Speaker C:And so.
Speaker C:And we're also working on the early college or dual credit track as well.
Speaker C:So we're really close to securing that.
Speaker C:And Alaska is at the forefront of that.
Speaker B:Very cool.
Speaker B:Okay, so let's go to this thing called Songhom Scholastic.
Speaker B:I. I don't think many people out there have probably heard much about it.
Speaker B:I know I've got to talk to you a little bit.
Speaker B:There's some pockets, you know, Texas probably knows about it more than anybody else, just with your involvement down there and whatnot.
Speaker B:But tell us a bit about Songam Scholastic.
Speaker C:So Song I'm scholastic.
Speaker C:Think about it like this.
Speaker C:You've heard a lot of people are familiar with football, Gridiron, American football, Friday Night Lights.
Speaker C:We want to bring that to Sangam Taekwondo and the ata.
Speaker C:And so the benefit is, regardless of whether you are in a private school, public school, charter school, home school, you have an opportunity to represent your school via Sangam Taekwondo.
Speaker C:It kicks off with the ATRI Classic, and we have one tournament a month and it actually ends at ATA headquarters in May.
Speaker C:And at that time, Master Don May will actually cut scholarship checks to selected recipients.
Speaker C:I think last year we gave out four, 200 checks.
Speaker C:And you can use that for Taekwondo, you can use it for education.
Speaker C:So it's one of the few athletic programs that's actually tied to the cte, if you will, career in technology and education or the college degree program.
Speaker C:Because in those programs you have to do what?
Speaker C:Learn how to run a tournament and also participate in a tournament.
Speaker C:So it's not run like a traditional necessarily ATA tournament.
Speaker C:When you're looking at forms, weapons creative and extreme.
Speaker C:Think of it like a track meet.
Speaker C:We line up six students at a time.
Speaker C:Think of it as a tie.
Speaker C:You point to the top two, the three judges point to the top two athletes and they move on to the next round.
Speaker C:And so like a track meet, you will have a final.
Speaker C:Everybody who's in the final will do their form and the three judges will point to the, to the best form.
Speaker C:And so the tournament runs really, really quick.
Speaker C:But that was one of the adjustments we had to make for the, the athletic directors to, to buy off, you know, to sign off on it.
Speaker B:Well, my guess is that part of that has to do with the fact that like in a regular tournament.
Speaker B:Well, first of all, let me ask this question.
Speaker B:What is the, Are there like age and rank divisions?
Speaker B:Is it all together?
Speaker B:What's the.
Speaker B:Sure.
Speaker B:Break down that way.
Speaker C:So this year we will have 10 to 13 year olds.
Speaker C:And so that will be traditionally your middle school and your junior high.
Speaker C:And then we'll have 14 and above, which is your high school.
Speaker C:They will be broken down by male and female and then color belts and black belts.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:So we're not doing necessarily.
Speaker C:It's only those age divisions with color belt and black belt for middle school and high school and then by gender and then the same for the high school, 14 to 8 year old, 18 year olds.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:So I mean, part of that is that you're you, if you're looking like a track meet, you don't end up with, you know, a bunch of first places in the same division in the same thing like we do sometimes for a regular tournament you might have three divisions and there's a bunch of first, first places or whatnot in the same division like worlds and stuff like that.
Speaker B:And so my guess is part of it has to do with that.
Speaker B:To do rankings, you probably need, you know, one first place.
Speaker B:You can't have a bunch of people be first place and then you're kind of stuck there.
Speaker C:Exactly.
Speaker C:You, you get it.
Speaker C:And, and so in working with the education system, you know, we have to give a little bit.
Speaker C:You know, I think that ATA does a phenomenal job.
Speaker C:We do a phenomenal job on running tournaments.
Speaker C:But here again, you know, when we want to partner with an education institution, they get to say so.
Speaker C:The unique thing about this is Sangam Scholastic is uniquely ata.
Speaker C:Everything else is very similar with the exception of how we do forms, creative forms, traditional forms, weapons forms, creative and extreme forms.
Speaker C:That's the only thing that's different.
Speaker C:It's open to every single student within the ata.
Speaker C:All you have to do is just make sure you let us know what public, private, or homeschool entity you are representing, because we have to send letters out from headquarters to those educational institutions letting them know that, hey, you have a student that's been nominated to participate in the Hula Classic representing your institution.
Speaker B:Okay, so this is.
Speaker B:This is wild to me.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:Let me make sure.
Speaker B:I. I totally understand.
Speaker B:One forms events are the only events.
Speaker B:There's no sparring.
Speaker C:No, we do have sparring.
Speaker C:We have every single thing with the exception of teams.
Speaker C:That's the only thing we don't have yet.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Hopefully this semester, after this year, we'll have enough people involved where you'll say, okay, I'm representing, let's say, Little Rock High School.
Speaker C:You've got six members from Little Rock High School.
Speaker C:Color belt or black belt, we don't care.
Speaker C:We're going to put you together and you're going to represent Little Rock High School as a team competing against, let's say, some high school like North Lake High School in Texas.
Speaker C:So all those students will attend either Little Rock High School or North Lake High School.
Speaker C:It won't necessarily be.
Speaker C:You will be attending, you know, Senior Master Hills Sangha Martial Arts Academy.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:You might be at a different school or whatnot.
Speaker B:And those.
Speaker C:Exactly.
Speaker B:In that.
Speaker B:Will that team be more like a.
Speaker B:Like a track team where the points from all the different events go together and then you'll have a winner.
Speaker B:It's not just like team sparring team only, but like a.
Speaker B:A school team collecting points.
Speaker C:Yes, sir.
Speaker C:That's what we're.
Speaker C:That's what we're working toward.
Speaker C:And so the benefit of that is this now allows many ATA school and club licensees an actual in to the education realm because many athletic directors will accept things like powerlifting, that's not necessarily regulated by the uil, and other events that are club sports, such as chess or automotive, where they're building engines and testing power or drone technology.
Speaker C:So those things aren't governed by the uil.
Speaker C:Neither is Sangam Taekwondo.
Speaker C:But now we have an in and we actually have a season.
Speaker C:So we don't really compete with football at all.
Speaker C:Football is usually over by then.
Speaker C:Track and field for a lot of schools throughout the state South.
Speaker C:When I was in school, we only ran on Fridays and Saturdays.
Speaker C:Now they don't do that.
Speaker C:They run during the week, so we won't butt up against them.
Speaker C:So we've done a lot of the groundwork and the legwork to make sure that these things could happen.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:So I.
Speaker B:Let's pretend back when I started, you know, Taekwondo, let's say I was in high school.
Speaker B:I. I'm a first degree black belt.
Speaker B:I'm at my local high school, I'm at my local ATA school also.
Speaker B:I'm going to regular tournaments and whatnot, but I can, with my instructor's permission, probably make sure I do.
Speaker C:That.
Speaker B:I can say, hey, I want to do this song.
Speaker B:I'm scholastic thing.
Speaker B:Sign up for it at the Huli Classic.
Speaker B:That's the kickoff.
Speaker B:I just have to, when I fill out the information or whatever, tell you what school I'm representing.
Speaker B:I don't have to go to my school and be like, hey, guys, can I represent you?
Speaker B:I can just kind of go and advance and then you guys will kind of make that connection with them.
Speaker C:We make the connection.
Speaker C:We make the connection.
Speaker C:We send the letter because we need to have the student and the students parents buy in to compete before we go send the letter.
Speaker B:You can't send the letter and be like, hey, we want to do this.
Speaker B:We don't know who's doing it at your school, but we want to do it.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Oh, man.
Speaker B:Okay, that's super cool.
Speaker B:Now you said you, you're working, then a tournament a month, Mike, what's that like?
Speaker B:Because there's, I mean, are people coming from across the country to each of these individual tournaments?
Speaker B:How's that being done?
Speaker C:So Mastermind and I have worked diligently along with several others to try to figure out how do we do this, right?
Speaker C:So we want to be respectful.
Speaker C:I'm in Region 112 as well as the Alaska region.
Speaker C:So we want to be respectful of Region 112.
Speaker C:So, you know, we work with Mr. Cox, we work with the ATA headquarters, and we say, look, these are the dates that schools are saying it's okay.
Speaker C:So then once we get a date, then what we have to do is now we have to work with the athletic directors and find a school that preferably has a student competing that that's willing to say, okay, you can use my gym or we have another facility that you can use.
Speaker C:And so that right now all we have are dates.
Speaker C:And then what we're going to do is we're going to roll into, as these dates become close, usually about four weeks out, we'll be able to say, okay, we're going to be at this high school or junior high at this date and time and so the benefit is our tournaments usually only last two to two and a half hours because of the way we run forms.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:And that's, I mean, really, you run all forms that way, so.
Speaker B:Exactly.
Speaker B:It's creative, extreme, all the things.
Speaker B:Except for basically sparring is run that way.
Speaker C:Yes,.
Speaker B:Sir.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Whoa.
Speaker B:This is.
Speaker B:What a neat, what a neat idea that I can go and represent my school, get people together.
Speaker B:I mean, me as a licensee, I think on the other side, I think, man, what a cool news story.
Speaker B:What a cool thing for my community to see a high school team of athletes that are martial arts athletes and competing together, you know, working kind of this season idea.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:And I want to say one thing.
Speaker C:You know, our deal is the all proceeds go back into the tournament, right.
Speaker C:So myself, Master May, any other school owner does not make a dime.
Speaker C:And so what we do is by raising enough money through these tournaments to hand out scholarships and to give out medals, this year we'll actually have pins to hand out hopefully for all our competitors.
Speaker C:And so that is the mindset to keep it in line with the Hula Classic and the Hula foundation and things that they've done.
Speaker C:So if we can give out scholarships at the end, continue to do that, then, then we, we feel we've done our part, we've helped out in some way.
Speaker C:And remember, that scholarship doesn't have to be for education.
Speaker C:You know, some people who have been in their school for years saying, look, I trust my instructor, this is what I want to do, I'm going to go forward.
Speaker C:So they can take that money and they can apply to GEAR or to their ATA school and.
Speaker C:Or facility.
Speaker B:I mean, they could enroll at Song University and you know, get some easy, some early dual enrollment high school and college there.
Speaker B:Do some.
Speaker B:That'd be great.
Speaker B:Okay, so what's the, what do you, you know, a year from now, two years from now, what are you looking at as you move forward?
Speaker B:What is the goal?
Speaker B:Kind of numbers wise, participation wise, just what you want to do with the Songam Scholastic Program for the ata.
Speaker B:What's the, what's the goal?
Speaker C:Sure.
Speaker C:Well, before I forget and let me say this, so the, the price, whether you do one event or all events is $55.
Speaker C:That's it.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:So you can pick and choose what events you want to do.
Speaker C:So let's say you want to do extreme weapons, then you don't have to do traditional weapons.
Speaker C:If you want to do extreme forms, you don't have to do traditional forms.
Speaker C:You get to pick and choose.
Speaker B:The.
Speaker C:Other thing I hope to answer your question is that school owners will have an in.
Speaker C:We would love to see anywhere from 300 to 400 students within the next two years, which, which I think is doable because many school owners like myself, I know Chief Master Hit, Chief Master Gonzalez, they're already in schools where they're running after school programs.
Speaker C:So if you take all these students that these ATA school owners and licensees that are involved with these after school programs and they were bringing them in, I think it would, it would definitely help one.
Speaker C:A lot of the communities, especially the newspapers, when they're looking at athletics, their sports desk are what we call very light in December, January and February.
Speaker C:So there's no reason why Sangam Taekwondo students should not be there at the forefront of your local newspaper.
Speaker B:Man.
Speaker B:I, yeah, I can see it also, like, I didn't play any middle school or high school sports.
Speaker B:I did martial arts.
Speaker B:It was the only thing I did.
Speaker B:And to think, like, we know that middle and high school age is, is rough on getting.
Speaker B:We don't have a lot of new students coming in in those ages.
Speaker B:We have a lot of students in those age groups, but they're in the black belt age usually because they started a little younger and then get up.
Speaker B:And I can see this as a neat way if you build up a team that probably is going to start with black belts or some higher ranks because they started lower.
Speaker B:But if you're seeing that in your school and stuff, you're hearing about it through the schools.
Speaker B:I can see some middle and high school kids enrolling, coming into martial arts because they're like, cool, I can do this sport.
Speaker B:Are they like, are some of these kids going to be able to like letter in it?
Speaker B:Can they get like something on their letterman jacket?
Speaker B:Is that part of the whole or is that.
Speaker B:I don't know how that works.
Speaker B:Is that other individual schools?
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:So that, that's my hope.
Speaker C:It often is up to the athletic director, but here again, you can let her in any club sport.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:And so those students receiving that letter, putting it before the athletic director or the graduation committee, I, I want a letter.
Speaker C:I want, I want a logo.
Speaker C:My other thing is I remember when ATA had sort of the letterman's jacket, you know, and I believe, I think that would be a great thing to bring back.
Speaker C:I hope I'm not stepping on anyone's toes at WMA and they're going to beat me up later because we're giving more work to do.
Speaker C:But I think that's something that if we celebrate it and we continue to push it correctly.
Speaker B:Yeah,.
Speaker C:We're looking at a partnership with education and so.
Speaker B:We're not.
Speaker C:Really in competition with them.
Speaker B:A song on scholastic specific Letterman jacket would be a really cool.
Speaker B:You know, you could go around tournaments and see who's a. Oh, you're a song.
Speaker B:I'm scholastic guy.
Speaker B:This.
Speaker B:My school's gonna compete against your school.
Speaker B:You know, we love competition.
Speaker B:You know,.
Speaker C:That's our.
Speaker B:That's our thing.
Speaker B:And I love.
Speaker B:I mean, I really like the idea of.
Speaker B:We were just actually a fellow school owner and I were talking recently about the idea of doing something like a track and field, our school against your school at a tournament.
Speaker B:Not just this person against this person.
Speaker B:But.
Speaker B:Okay, how many medals do we have?
Speaker B:Which medals?
Speaker B:You know, and point system for that.
Speaker B:I love the idea of middle schools and high schools going against each other in that.
Speaker B:And you've got the kid who's like, I'm not a big star, but I'm going to do extremely creative and I'm going to do my form and that's going to help my team's score overall.
Speaker B:And that's cool.
Speaker C:And I tell you, we introduced a new.
Speaker C:If you want to call it division, I guess, or.
Speaker C:Or metal, we call it the Iron Man.
Speaker C:So in order to do the Iron man or Iron Maiden, you must compete in all eight events.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:And if you compete in all eight, the lowest ordinal score, like they say in band, if the person has the most first places and all those eight, you win that title for your division.
Speaker C:Iron man or Iron Maiden.
Speaker B:And so.
Speaker C:You will actually receive an additional medal for that.
Speaker C:To go back to what you were talking about with one school versus another, we kind of blended wrestling.
Speaker C:So how these schools have these individual matches or meets to prepare for an official meet, we encourage schools to do that.
Speaker C:So hopefully in the future we'll have some of these schools that have, you know, roughly 50, 60 students versus somebody else.
Speaker C:You guys need to get together and you want to hold an informal meet.
Speaker C:Let's do it.
Speaker B:Yeah,.
Speaker C:I.
Speaker B:Mean, that might be real neat.
Speaker B:So I live in small town Indiana.
Speaker B:And you know how, man, small town Indiana, you got some rivalries in some high schools.
Speaker C:For.
Speaker B:Football or basketball or just every sport because they're, you know, been against each other for decades.
Speaker B:You know, even at my own school, I could get kids, they're all maybe go to my schools, but one high school, another high school at our own school compete against you.
Speaker B:I mean, that'd be Fun then, too.
Speaker B:You're like, yeah, you know, we're together, but different, man.
Speaker B:Okay, this is a super cool program.
Speaker B:So we're.
Speaker B:We're calling people out.
Speaker B:They want to do this.
Speaker B:It starts like you said, at the Huli classic.
Speaker B:December 5th, I think is the date.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker C:Ours is the.
Speaker C:On Friday.
Speaker C:We switched it.
Speaker C:We're going to Friday, and we're going in the morning.
Speaker C:So the earlier you sign up, so when you go to events, you will see it as the first thing says psalm Scholastic.
Speaker C:Click the register here button.
Speaker C:And once you do that, I will have all of your information.
Speaker C:Approximately a week before the event, we will actually send out emails.
Speaker C:And so we're going to encourage parents and instructors to print those off and hand that over or forward the emails also to their.
Speaker C:Either their principal or superintendent and say, look, this.
Speaker C:My.
Speaker C:My child.
Speaker C:My student has been invited to compete at the Hilly Classic in Little Rock, Arkansas, and I will be representing our educational institution.
Speaker C:So last year we had 100% compliance.
Speaker C:Every student counted as an excused absence, and it didn't count against them.
Speaker B:Oh, that's awesome.
Speaker B:Okay, so.
Speaker B:And that's on atamartialarts.com.
Speaker B:That's not on ata easy signup, correct?
Speaker C:That is correct.
Speaker C:It is.
Speaker C:They.
Speaker B:Need to go.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:So if.
Speaker B:You're.
Speaker C:Going to compete in Sangam Scholastic and ATA and the.
Speaker C:The ATA actually Classic, then yes, you must register for both.
Speaker C:Got it, sir.
Speaker B:Makes sense.
Speaker B:Okay, guys, I want you to head over to ATA Martial arts dot com.
Speaker B:Talk to your parents, talk to your licensees, talk to everybody and get some kids from your school together and be like, hey,.
Speaker C:Let's friends,.
Speaker B:Let's form this team.
Speaker C:That's do it.
Speaker B:That's awesome.
Speaker B:And sign up for the Hilly Classic.
Speaker B:And then when you sign up for the Song Scholastic tournament there, that's on Friday.
Speaker B:You get down there and you compete.
Speaker B:Make sure you tell them you heard about this on the ATA Nation podcast.
Speaker C:Yes, sir.
Speaker B:And then we'll.
Speaker B:We'll.
Speaker B:We'll make it even better.
Speaker C:Yes, sir.
Speaker B:That, you know, what we'll do is eventually we'll just come and do like a live coverage of it, like some high school football thing, you know, one of these days.
Speaker C:That's what.
Speaker C:That's what Master May and I were hoping, like, hey, maybe ATA Podcast Nation might let us, you know, shoot some video, some.
Speaker C:Some promos, and then we'll.
Speaker C:We'll send it to you.
Speaker C:So,.
Speaker B:Yeah, let's do that.
Speaker B:That'd be awesome.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Anything else?
Speaker B:We need to make sure AT Nation knows about what's going on in all the scholastic.
Speaker B:All the educational sites, Master.
Speaker C:Hill?
Speaker C:Yeah, look, for the Alaska trip, we're shooting for 25, right?
Speaker C:So we would love to have 25 students.
Speaker C:The other thing that we're doing is we want to say thank you to Ms. Dempsey.
Speaker C:I refer to her affectionately as Mama Dempsey.
Speaker C:And the principal there, as well as superintendent, Mr. Morrison.
Speaker C:They've agreed to allow me to take trips for parents if parents, other school owners want to go for like a week.
Speaker C:We would travel one day, spend three days, and then come back on that fifth day.
Speaker C:Get with me.
Speaker C:We're willing to do that and allow instructors to kind of see what environment and where their kids actually are.
Speaker C:I know you love them like your own, so you want to make sure they're in a great place.
Speaker C:They're not going to be eaten by a bear or anything like that.
Speaker C:So, yeah, that's what we've got going for them.
Speaker C:For them.
Speaker B:Fantastic.
Speaker B:Super cool.
Speaker B:Make sure people are checking that out.
Speaker B:The Alaska, you got the song of university, going to college.
Speaker B:You got the scholastic, man.
Speaker B:There's so many awesome things going out there where you can tie your martial arts in with your education.
Speaker B:So get out there at nation and take some action.
Speaker C:Thank.
Speaker B:You, Master Hill.
Speaker B:We appreciate your time today.
Speaker C:Thank you, sir.
Speaker C:Appreciate it.
Speaker B:Ah, where'd it go?
Speaker B:Not me.
Speaker B:Hold on.
Speaker B:Where's my thing?
Speaker B:I don't know what I'm doing, guys.
Speaker B:I told you my.
Speaker B:There we go.
Speaker B:I figured it out.
Speaker B:I'm still working on this new software.
Speaker B:You can tell.
Speaker B:Hey, guys.
Speaker B:Song.
Speaker B:I'm scholastic.
Speaker B:Super cool.
Speaker B:Man almighty.
Speaker B:You get out there and there's no reason not to.
Speaker B:55 Bucks.
Speaker B:You get to do all the extra events.
Speaker B:You can do them again.
Speaker B:Go down Friday, man.
Speaker B:Start your school.
Speaker B:I'm going to go talk to my guys today about it.
Speaker B:We'll see if we can start forming some teams for some of our middle and high schools.
Speaker B:I think that would be amazing.
Speaker B:Hey, guys, let me know what you thought of the show, who you want to hear from next.
Speaker B:If you are an ATA licensee, tomorrow is our next episode of Business beyond the Map.
Speaker B:We'll be broadcasting live in the ATA licensee Facebook page.
Speaker B:And we're going to have a round table with some Gen Z licensees talking to some Gen Z licensees.
Speaker B:See what you know, how things are different for them, how they.
Speaker B:They got to where they are.
Speaker B:I want to get some info.
Speaker B:You know, I'm an old man now and I want to connect with these guys and see what the landscape's like for them.
Speaker B:So if you're an ATL licensee, that's just exclusively for you on the ATA licensee Facebook page or our super secret link for YouTube.
Speaker B:I think that's going to wrap it up for us today, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker B:Make sure you get out there and take some action.
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