Category Archives: Kids

Best Practice

What’s the best way to teach martial arts?  Great question.  We can poll a few martial arts teachers, no doubt they’ll have some fairly strong opinions on the matter.  Or we can examine some evidence based research on what kinds … Continue reading

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Memorization versus Creativity

Part of what it takes to get your first rank in our kid’s program is simple memorization.  For example: Kick Combination #2.  It’s 3 kicks:  starting from a left tiger, you throw a shuffle up left roundhouse kick, then a … Continue reading

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Memorization versus Creativity

Part of what it takes to get your first rank in our kid’s program is simple memorization.  For example: Kick Combination #2.  It’s 3 kicks:  starting from a left tiger, you throw a shuffle up left roundhouse kick, then a … Continue reading

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Memorization versus Creativity

Part of what it takes to get your first rank in our kid’s program is simple memorization.  For example: Kick Combination #2.  It’s 3 kicks:  starting from a left tiger, you throw a shuffle up left roundhouse kick, then a … Continue reading

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Eyes Up! Minds On!

The biggest piece of any self defense program: awareness.  If you don’t see what’s coming, all the techniques in the world can’t save you.  How do you practice awareness? Today in kid’s class, we started with a simple physical idea … Continue reading

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