{"id":4148,"date":"2020-04-29T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T19:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/?p=4148"},"modified":"2020-04-29T12:00:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T19:00:23","slug":"bringing-the-dojo-to-the-living-room-with-poly-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/bringing-the-dojo-to-the-living-room-with-poly-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing the Dojo to the Living Room with Poly Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s not just office workers adjusting to working from home, or traditional school classroom teachers trying to quickly enable distance learning.\u00a0 We recently had the opportunity speak with a different kind of remote educator \u2013 \u00a0Susan Tipton, a Sensei who manages the Family First Mixed Martial Arts School in Spring Hill, TN, to discuss how she\u2019s adapted her dojo for distance learning.<\/p>\n
Susan, how have local Safer-At-Home measures impacted you?<\/strong><\/p>\n We have 200+ students at my location in Spring Hill, and another 250+ at our sister school in Franklin, Tennessee.\u00a0 Covid-19 and the ensuing Safer-At-Home orders have been a devastating blow to all gyms and especially children\u2019s athletics.<\/p>\n Our students pay month-to-month tuition, without contracts, which made our schools especially vulnerable.\u00a0 When we first realized we would have to close to live students we knew our business would not survive should we totally shut down our services.\u00a0 The very first week we were closed we began holding classes<\/a><\/span> on Zoom using a mish-mash of laptops and a separate USB microphone.<\/p>\n It worked, but the picture and sound quality left a lot to be desired.\u00a0 What was particularly difficult was achieving a wide enough angle using the laptop\u2019s camera to follow dynamic, quick movements without the picture blurring.<\/p>\n Absolutely!\u00a0 During the Safer-At-Home orders our goal is not just to save our schools, or even just keep our employees working, but to continue serving our students and provide them with a bit of normalcy and an outlet for their pent-up energy.<\/p>\n<\/h4>\n
Those sound like they might be key to learning mixed martial arts.<\/strong><\/h4>\n
What happened next?<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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