Chicago Fight House: Integrity

"Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.”
Chicago Fight House believes in experience being the best teacher. We take extraordinary measure to explain our techniques, our qualified teachers demonstrate what we explain and then invite you to practice - this is true learning.

“Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come”
Chicago Fight House teaches our students with the utmost respect and commitment. Our goal is to have each student leave the lesson for the day and be happy with their new knowledge and thrilled with their progress.

While many teachers try to lengthen the learning process in hopes that the student will require more time and spend more money, Chicago Fight House strives to give as much knowledge in a single lesson that a person can hold, remember, and utilize when needed.

This alone, sets Chicago Fight House apart from nearly every other school teaching boxing, kickboxing and self defense.

Integrity

Integrity is a word that is over-used and under-demonstrated. Chicago Fight House uses the word "INTEGRITY" everyday. We qualify our workouts, training lessons, and teachings using integrity as our baseline. There are two definitions of integrity that we use everyday.

1. Doing what is RIGHT when no one is looking
2. Doing what we said we were going to do and then DOING IT

We expect our students to have integrity and we demand it from ourselves.

This means:

• We deliver a full "lesson plan" for each workout session. We never "coast" through a workout lesson. We actively participate in each lesson
• We teach at least one new technique or strategy in every lesson (usually 2-3)
• We demonstrate the technique to perfection - we are competent in every facet of our teachings
• We do NOT just talk the talk, our instructors walk the walk
• We honor our agreements with students and members. If there is a scheduling conflict, we communicate it. If there is a monetary issue with our agreements, we discuss it with our students and resolve it quickly
• We honor our student's goals and strive to help them achieve it - but we do not walk for other people - a student's integrity is that they will perform the tasks and exercises to their fullest capability, each lesson
• If a student needs to miss an appointment, they will call and communicate it. We agree to show up prepared and on-time, every time
• Our Moods will not dictate the training quality. We leave our outside lives at the door and deliver excellent training
• We work with our students to ensure our training methods match their learning methods and we adapt as much as possible. Our students agree to adapt as well. Then training sessions are productive, instructive and effective

The list of integrity issues goes on, but we will leave you with this: We take our jobs seriously, but have fun in the process. Our goal is that every student will remember their training, each student will remember that Chicago Fight House delivered everything we said we would and Chicago Fight House did so with professionalism, competence and integrity. And we mean it.