How to Become a Karate Instructor

By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor

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If you love to teach and enjoy the martial arts, perhaps you can become a karate instructor. Once you master the many moves associated with your particular form of karate, it might benefit others if you shared your knowledge as an instructor. Use your patience, discipline and martial arts skills to become a karate instructor. It's certainly a career you can get a kick out of!

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Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Step1

Spend years learning karate. Advance to the upper levels. Many karate instructors have black belts. You cannot teach karate until you have mastered it. Develop your own coordination and confidence so that you can teach these concepts to your students.

Step2

Check out established karate schools and talk to instructors there. Get a feel for whether you really want to become a karate instructor. Observe the classes they teach, if possible.

Step3

Develop your communication and leadership skills. Being a karate master is not all it takes to become a karate instructor. The ability to talk to and teach students is just as important. Expressing yourself in an open, intelligent manner is essential when becoming a karate instructor.

Step4

Get certified in CPR. Many karate schools list this as a requirement of their instructors. Though not required, obtaining an EMT card and getting supplemental training by becoming a certified physical education teacher can be helpful.

Step5

Work as an instructor trainee under the supervision of a certified head instructor. Some schools may require you to be a trainee for up to three years or after you have logged a certain number of hours.

Tips & Warnings

Consider teaching both children and adults. Many parents enroll their children in karate classes. Instructing both groups increases your marketability.
Don't go into this field expecting to be a full time instructor. Most karate instructors work on a part time basis, depending on the size of the school and level of enrollment. You may have to work for more than one school to make a full time income.