Gosh how much has changed in such a short period of time. Since I was last writing on my blog about how, despite having taught at a number of martial arts academies across Manchester and beyond, I haven’t found one with the overall philosophy that I feel is missing, things have developed!
I logged onto my computer a while back into the account linked with this blog, www.joeakka.name, only to find I had mail from someone I had never heard of before.
It turned out that this guy, let’s just call him Peter (because that is his name!), was an old colleague from years back of Dave Manchester, my old martial arts teacher and by accident he had come across my blog.
The basic premise of the email that he had addressed to me, Joe Akka, was that he had worked with Dave Manchester for many years, was also a follower of his philosophies regarding the ‘why’ of martial arts and read with interest the fact that I was looking to start up a Joe Akka Martial arts academy.
To cut a long story short, although he lived in South Africa, he was flying into Manchester for a couple of days and would I be able to meet him to discuss the Joe Akka martial arts academy further.
Funnily enough, the days that he was in Manchester, I was working around the area anyway, so I met him at his hotel at Manchester airport.
I went to the meeting with an outline of the start-up costs for a Joe Akka martial arts academy, what the philosophy would be based on, and of course, most importantly, how a Joe Akka martial arts academy would make money.
The long and the short of it, it that he is very keen on backing the Joe Akka martial arts academy! So stay tuned folks, there may be a Joe Akka Martial arts academy coming to a town near you soon!