Teacher Training 2025
Freedom School of Martial Arts
TEACHER TRAINING 2025
Teacher Training 2025 is for people who want to learn martial arts and teaching methods from the Freedom School of Martial Arts, so that they may gain the skill and knowledge necessary to teach classes of their own if they choose to.
When a student becomes qualified to teach any art he/she will be added to a registered teachers list on our website
Two types of Teacher Training:
1. Teaching permission for specific arts only, such as Swimming Dragon
2. Freedom School Martial Arts Instructor Qualification and Freedom School Black Belt, which means becoming proficient in teaching all the skills hosted on this website (Taiji, Swimming Dragon, Baguazhang, Aikido, Capoeira, Muay Thai Buran, martial yoga, Freedom Style, sword and staff). This is a cutting edge qualification for a well rounded martial artist. A black belt implies having good experience in foundational principals, form and function and the ability to teach while continuing own progress.
There will be two ways of doing teacher training with us in 2025:
Teacher trainees can either live with us and/or train with us at the Freedom School dojo in Pniel, Stellenbosch, South Africa,
or do a teacher training with us online, at www.freedommartialart.com, where teachers will be required to have mastered the relevant disciplines offered on the website and extra video training material and evaluated via private zoom training.
The length of time it takes to complete teacher training depends on the individual student, how fast he/she can get through all the training material required and be evaluated and qualified by Hans Menck Sensei.
The teacher training happening in the Pniel Dojo will be recorded and edited into online teaching content and gradually made available to online teacher trainees through this website and google drives.
Live-in students (uchi deshi) at Pniel Dojo: There four candidates so far and they will join all Pniel Dojo teacher trainings, and normal classes on Stellenbosch University campus where we will be hosting a variety of evening classes Mondays to Fridays.
The live-in teacher trainees will receive direct teacher experience at these classes, where they will either teach or act as assistant teachers.
At begin of the course, 15 January there will be 4 instructor trainees living and training in Pniel dojo, and at present there are 2 more spaces available for two more martial arts house mates. Please feel free to recommend any potential live in students.
There will also be one visitor space available for short term intensive training, for students who just want to come to live in Pniel Dojo a few days, weeks or months.
The current teachers under training at Pniel dojo are already skilled martial artists and their accommodation and teacher training is compensated by their class teaching in Stellenbosh.
The cost for any new live-in trainees will be R7 000 per month for a room and training and one yearly payment of R2 500 for membership, registration and online website and class recording access.
Food contribution should be roughly R3 000 per month. The total of R10 000 per month accommodation, food and teacher training is very low compared to other teacher trainings, so please help us find the best candidates!
Online teacher training cost:
Online Teacher Membership 115$/EURO or R2 500 per year for website membership and registration, and class recording access
Private zoom classes and evaluations at 50$/EURO or R1 000 per hour, or pro rata, so make it count, as you will be trained personally by Sensei Hans Menck.
Optional standard rates for zoom classes on our Zoom class schedule 2025
Subsidies for possible financially challenged candidates could be negotiated.
Expectation after receiving teaching permission:
The teacher will keep his/her registration as a teacher and school membership active by paying a yearly Regular Membership of 35$/Euro (R700), or by continuing with the Teacher Training Membership if they are still on the path of teacher training.
Teachers who teach classes will offer Regular Student Memberships to their students, providing their students with Freedom School registration, membership, evaluation/grading level, and the necessary online resources for self study.
Teachers’ membership and registration also depends on adherence to the rules and basic conduct requirements of a Freedom School teacher, which will become known through the training.
