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Booming Franchise: CKO Kickboxing

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    Small business owner pulled no punches to make dream come true

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Joseph -- -- always had a passion for kick boxing I decide to two.

Leave high school and go ahead and train.

And I learned as much as I could any news that you wait to share it with others this is the work out that I didn't -- -- since I was a kid in my basement.

Listen to music relieve stress today heavy bag.

And I thought that other people wanna do it it would make the impact on a life that it made online but -- the idea that -- kick boxing off the ground was an easy.

I went -- the owner of the factory where I was working -- and asked him if I can use of storage room.

Two cues from -- kick boxing idea and he said that this was an office building in her -- here.

And writers and it was not for fitness or this is something different -- -- and I told him I was a more foreigners than that.

-- I have a dream just like everybody else has a dream in this building that's when his idea became a reality is the first one it took me four years to get an Opel would no money.

Flash forward.

A decade later and he can't kick boxing in basic death.

In 2008 -- turned it into a franchise.

And they're now 23 locations in new York and New Jersey at least.

Three more opening later this year Lisa Michaels was a member or two and a half years and is now an instructor.

It is only work out my entire life that I ever dead we're actually stuck with it and citizen day actually take about 34 classes a week there was something different that it never done before and I've lost seventy pounds.

-- says his one hour classes aren't unique.

And his -- work -- their own case.

Memberships range from 159080 dollars a month.

Darlene in -- -- took out a loan to open their own franchise.

We have a great time doing it is low maintenance.

I mean are giving back into the community a lot of fundraising team.

Definitely.

Touch people's lives let me -- a lot of that's common.

Possibly gain confidence.

And a lot of the work out and are committed senior -- when asked why is.

Small idea has journey he's such a big -- that's just says.

The person is a driving force behind that franchisee to manager to head trainer.

And then a person's gonna drive everybody and again I'm not the only person that come by heavy bags at this point.

In January entrepreneur magazine including CK -- kick boxing in its franchise 500.

In New York Heather Childers Fox News.

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