Category Archives: Kids

Making Connections

Learning martial arts should be a practical (if rarely used) tool – if you get attacked, you should be able to defend yourself.  Learning martial arts should provide a broad set of problem solving tools – if you learn in … Continue reading

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Did You Keep Your Hands Up?

For the final day of our week of working on covers, I told the kids to keep their hands up, filmed them doing some harmony sparring and then showed them the video.  My hope was that between the message of … Continue reading

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Theme of the Week: Intensity

How do you teach the 4 and 5 year olds about intensity?  Easy. First you make them go different speeds: slow, medium and fast.  Then you make them do different amounts of moves: 2 jumping jacks then 4 then 8 … Continue reading

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Gearing Up

Kid’s tournament time is coming soon… last year it was May 19th so undoubtedly it will be sometime in the middle of May. Will the students be ready?  Let’s hope so.  We’ve got two months to spar, grapple and practice … Continue reading

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Theme of the Week: Harmony

I love the fact that the first class of the week is the 4 and 5’s class.  It means I get to take whatever the theme of the week is and try it first on my youngest students.  This is … Continue reading

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