Karate is Great for Adults Karate is Great for Kids The Power of Values Why Choose Us – The Academy Advantage Getting Started – It’s Easier than You Think

Karate is Great for Adults

Our typical adult student joins to get in shape. We have a special Over 30 program that works around any pre-existing conditions to get you going. Karate increases motivation, relieves stress, tones your body and increases productivity.

When I first stepped into this dojo five years ago, I didn’t know that karate would change my life. I didn’t even plan to start training - I was here to sign up my then six year old son. After six months of peering through doorways and windows, I said to myself, “I think I could do this.” Now, Karate influences countless aspects of my daily life. I can look at someone who has invaded my personal space without fear - and feel confident. I can grab things in midair that have fallen from my kitchen counter or a shelf - and feel quick and graceful and shake my head in wonder. I can hear my daughter tell her friends that “my mom is a ...black belt in karate” - I feel pride. I can open a jar lid, carry grocery bags, shovel snow, or run up stairs tow at a time - and feel strength.

Julee Sheehy – Black Belt Adult Student from Reading,
Mother of 3 Young Children, and Mother of a Student, and Lawyer

Karate is Great for Kids

The Academy will help give your child an “edge in life” by teaching them leadership skills, how to defend themselves, including how to handle a bully, improve their conditioning, and help them become self-disciplined and respectful.

Look at it this way. Your child’s first and biggest challenge comes not from “fighting for his rights on the street,” or “beating up the neighborhood bully.” It comes, instead, from battling more sinister forces. Your child’s own fears and self doubts:

“I’m not as smart as John.”

“I don’t get what my teacher is saying.”

“I wish I was as [strong, pretty, tall] as Sally.”

“Why does Jim keep giving me a bad time?”

“Why can’t I be as popular as Jill?”

Question is, how do you get your child to fight these demons? You know the problem.Your child has a tough time even telling you she’s haunted by them. Never mind how they might conquer them.

Well, the good news is, we have a proven solution. A program that has already worked for thousands of children in the Wilmington/Reading area. A series of lessons your child can learn easier than you think.

Martial arts are less about your child learning to fight others, and more about fighting themself. Their innermost fears. Conquer them, and your child unleashes within themself, a powerful, unstoppable force.

A force that gives them the strength to kick down the doors of his own self doubts. A force that opens your child to the exalting power of values.

In other words, when your child uses the discipline of karate to conquer his fears, they have the power to transfer that discipline to all other areas of his life. We know of noother sport that does this better than karate. (We should know. We’ve been teaching it for over 17 years.) But don’t take our word for it...

The Power of Values

Now, you may be asking, how does all this values stuff work? And why does karate manage to do a better job teaching it?

Again, more than any other sport, karate gives your child the chance to explore their innate powers. They’ll marvel (as you will) as they increase in strength, flexibility, endurance, balance, and harmony. Yet, this is only the start.

In fact, their physical skills act as a foundation for something much more important: the development of their value skills, mental and spiritual. And not cut off from their physical skills, but intimately connected—even bonded—to them.

Unstoppable Courage

As your child finds the courage to move outside of their comfort zone, they will take on more difficult karate moves and skills. They become no longer afraid of being afraid. As they do so, they learn that whatever they sow, so they reap. They learn to blame noone but themselves. They suddenly see their life as a constant, never-ending journey of life-giving improvement. In short, with a deep breath, they refuse to become a victim of fate. They put an arm lock on their own destiny.

Unbreakable Determination

Your child finds joy in improving their physical stamina. They can walk farther, run longer, and practice skills until they get them right. They learn not to give up. They stick things out. With the help of their teachers, they strive harder, longer to reach their goals. Even if they fail, they preserve their self-respect. They won’t let their self-doubts get in the way of finding an ultimate solution.

Laser Like Focus

This results is a keener focus. They learn to make eye contact with their teacher (and not just in karate). They pay greater attention to what each teacher says. They know and accept where they stand. They’ll learn what’s needed, along with the skill to zero in on critical tasks at hand. Normal, yet time-wasting, trivial distractions won’t get in their way.

Powerful Self Control

They’ll refuse to give in to negative peer pressure. They’ll have a deeper respect for rules.

These are just some of the powerful, energizing values your child will get from our program. In all this talk of values you may be wondering where’s the karate. Be assured, we do teach karate as everyone likes to think of it. Your child will end up knowing how to protect themself. They’ll know how to avoid danger, how to use conflict resolution techniques—all without the need to throw a kick, block, or punch!

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