Training Benefits

In addition to learning to protect yourself and your family, martial arts training provides many benefits to both children and adults.

Physical, Emotional, and Social Benefits:

• reduce the risk for obesity and help build stronger bones and muscles
• be an effective tool for reducing the symptoms of stress and depression
• enhance mental health by increasing positive feelings about body image
• improve self-esteem
• offer tangible experiences of competency and success
• improve endurance
• help you gain muscle and lose fat
• improve mental alertness

Development of Crucial Skills and Habits that Help Children Succeed in School:

• discipline
• focus
• memorization skills
• responsibility and accountability
• respect for themselves, teachers/authority, and others
• concentration
• confidence and self-esteem
• setting/reaching goals
• anger management
• perseverance
• good work habits
• character development

Additional Benefits for Children:

• it is a great physical activity for children who do not do well in team sports
• it is safer than most school sports
• children with special needs, such as ADD, learning difficulties and hyperactivity are often recommended to participate in martial arts because of the clear benefits in its structured training
• training is a great opportunity to make friends of all ages and practice socialization skills

Leadership Skills:
Martial arts training helps children learn, practice and develop leadership skills. Leadership is earned by receiving stripes/colored belts with rank for reaching specific goals in training and attitude. Upper belts are held responsible for being a role model for lower belts. Students are eligible to test about every 3 months. In this manner, there is always someone to lead the student, and someone for the student to lead.

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It is a good idea to start your child in karate training when he or she is young. Many parents have noticed their children have better confidence, are more physically fit and more respectful in less than a year as a result of martial arts training.