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INFORMATION: Benefits - juniors - adults

We specialise in teaching children from as young as eight years old.  Our junior classes are for children from eight to sixteen years old.  Our intention is to make children feel good about themselves and to be in physical and mental control.  Our teaching methods are sensitively tailored to meet the needs of individual learning differences.  All children are taught at their own pace and are never pressured to perform beyond their capabilities.

In some cases, our school may provide child therapy.  For example, from the self-confidence gained in learning how to defend themselves, shy, withdrawn children may become more outgoing and confident, while aggressive children will become calm and respectful of others.  Parents are truly amazed at the positive difference in attitude their child develops after beginning classes.  A child can walk proud with their head held high.  Each student learns to say "Yes, I can in life ".

How your child can benefit from taekwondo:
Taekwondo is a total learning activity.  Lessons are tailored to your child's age and skill level.  Your child begins by practicing basic patterns and forms, board breaking, kicking, blocking, striking and punching.  These fundamental skills increase your child's physical coordination, flexibility, balance and mental acumen.  Taekwondo develops your child's athletic abilities, self-awareness and improves the child's capabilities in self-defence.

Develops self-discipline.
Promotes safety awareness
Teaches social skills and respect.
Increases self-confidence.


Taekwondo and children:
The following describes some ideals that every child needs to possess to become a happy, productive adult and how taekwondo helps parents help their children attain them.

Physical Fitness
Children must be taught that a fit, healthy lifestyle is the accumulation of good habits.  Three components make up a healthy lifestyle: exercise, nutrition and hygiene / grooming.  Taekwondo helps parents with the exercise component and may provide assistance with the other two components.  Taekwondo instructors tell children how eating healthy will make them better warriors and instructors require that children have proper hygiene and grooming whilst in class.

Self-Control
Children must be taught to "self-manage" their own actions.  If parents do not establish boundaries or if they establish boundaries and are not consistent in enforcing them, they make it difficult for their children to learn self-control.  Children get the idea that boundaries are flexible.  Taekwondo has rules of behaviour that are strictly enforced.  If children want to continue training and competing with their friends, they must learn to control their behaviour or pay the consequences.

Focus
Taekwondo teaches children to pay attention and block out distractions.  Pattern practice demands that children block out distractions and concentrate on making perfect motions.  Sparring requires a student’s undivided attention at all times or they lose the match.

Respect
A disrespectful child gets no respect, so he or she turns that attitude inward and starts to see him or herself as a person who does not deserve respect.  Taekwondo teaches children to be respectful at all times to everyone and that they earn respect in the same measure that they give respect.

Confidence
Taekwondo helps children become experts at something, which then gives them more self-confidence.  Everybody knows that if you are good at something, you become confident in that thing, but that confidence also spills over into other areas of a child's life.

Honesty
Honesty is more than simply avoiding lies.  It includes a belief in and a pursuit of the truth.  Honesty is a sign of healthy self-esteem, because an honest person takes responsibility for his or her actions.  A child who feels good about her/himself has no need to resort to deception.  Taekwondo teaches children to be honest, even when it is not easy to do or is not the popular thing to do.

Courage
If a child is constantly afraid, he or she feels less and less able to deal with his or her surroundings.  Instead of experiencing growth, the child's comfort zone shrinks and he or she withdraws from life.  Courage determines how much freedom a child experiences.  Fear will hold your child back and prevent him or her from trying new things, pursuing meaningful opportunities and from living the life he or she was meant to live.  Taekwondo helps children face their fears and conquer them.  As they gain more courage, they are not afraid to try new things.

Contribution
Children need to be taught the joy of giving so they will become persons who contribute to society.  Life rewards you in direct proportion to your willingness to contribute.  Taekwondo students learn to give assistance to new students or those with physical or mental challenges and they learn community service.  They learn that helping others makes you feel good about yourself.

Positive Outlook
Children need to look at their lives positively, not negatively.  Taekwondo instructors do not tell students they are doing a technique wrong; they praise them and tell them how to improve the technique.  As a result, students have a positive outlook about their futures and feel capable of doing anything.

Responsibility
Taekwondo teaches children to take responsibility for their own actions, for assigned tasks, for younger children and for other students of lower rank.  As they learn responsibility, they are given more responsibilities.

Persistence
Sometimes, things in life do not come easily.  Some children take longer to earn rank in Taekwondo than it does for other children.  Taekwondo teaches children to not give up and that they can succeed if they persist in their efforts.

Taekwondo gives each child the freedom to advance at his or her own pace. The program helps children develop physical strength, flexibility, endurance, and self-control, as well as a strong sense of self-discipline, self-esteem, and responsibility.  The self-discipline that develops as a result of learning and practicing the techniques usually carries over into other areas of the child's life.  School grades often improve as your child learns to focus on objectives and to work toward achievement.  The self-discipline and self-respect which taekwondo develops can provide your child with the skills and mindset necessary to resist peer pressure.