Maxtar's Massage Interview
What distinguishes you from all the other Masseurs?
My obsession with learning new skills and techniques. I constantly seek to adapt to each individual client. Understanding the differences in muscles from different jobs and recreations. After each session I go over and over in my head about how to be more efficient and better.
Why did you become a Masseur?
I love the energy I get from making others feel relaxed and helping them feel better beneath my hands and body. I enjoy studying the bodies of my clients and being able to discern where they are pushing certain muscles more than others.
Is extensive training necessary for a Masseur in order to be successful?
I believe someone who is done training is done being skilled in their craft. To be great is to obsess and keep focusing on ways to progress and be better and more efficient. Each session will require studying the guest and finding what they want and what they need and prioritizing how much attention and what techniques to use. How fast or how slow to go. Training should never be over. Constant adaptation is required to truly be successful.
How do you like clients to feel about the experience when they leave?
I prefer to finish the time I am being payed for and I like to proceed to ask if they want a few extra minutes on any areas I might have overlooked or may not have worked on properly. I feel that if you are in my hands it is my responsibility to take care of you before and after the scheduled time not just during. The only way to learn more is to ask more and if I am being payed I like to be thorough. But I also like to discover on my own first and review at the end.
Tell us a little about yourself, if you were to pick something what would you like your clients to absolutely know about you?
I love being active. Taught gymnastics for a few years and loved every minute of it. Money wasn’t great but I learned a lot about myself and it has lead me to understand physical therapy and how important it is. I am constantly trying to adapt stretching into my therapeutic aspect of my sessions. While I know how to release tension in the muscles I am now focusing on new methods to relieve tension in the joints as well.
Some people say that being a Masseur is addictive. Would you miss your Masseur days ?
I have enjoyed receiving and giving massages throughout the years and am learning I love to give as much as recieve. I wouldn’t have to miss being a masseur because I can find a way to keep it in my everyday life by constantly working out I have to work on my own body. When friends complain I like to see if I can relieve a little pressure for them. I feel it is more a part of who I am than I realized.
What advice would you give to someone who wants to be a Masseur?
Do you feel like you have the patience to take your time feeling out someone’s body and studying it with your touch? Finding the knots and kneading them slowly. Do you have the stamina and ingenuity to go for an hour or 2? Masseurs incorporate many different methods with different parts of their body to last longer than they would if they only used their hands. My best advice is to be humble and always ask if you missed something, as well as practice patience.