programs: kids MARTIAL ARTS
Kids Martial Arts
At American Black Belt Academy we offer a program for everyone!
If you are interested in a highly effective and comprehensive program that will increase your child's energy, esteem, and spirit while they become strong and empowered with confidence then our Karate' Inspiring Confidence in Kids (K-I-C-K) Children's Martial Arts Program is what you’ve been looking for.
Our specialized children's programs are age-specific and professionally designed to teach your children important life skills in a fun, exciting, and effective manner. Our secret to teaching your children coordination, concentration, motor skills, respect, discipline, self-control and other values is a unique blend of education, entertainment, and exercise that will have your child sweating, smiling, and learning in every class. We use the excitement and fun of martial arts skills to teach key life lessons important to children's safety and success.
THE GREATEST GIFT YOU CAN GIVE A CHILD is CONFIDENCE!
A confident kid is UNSTOPPABLE!
The Karate' Inspiring Confidence in Kids (K-I-C-K) Children's Martial Arts Program
The program is not just about teaching children to kick and punch, K-I-C-K is designed to build a child's character and strength. We're not just talking about physical strength--but the kind of strength it takes to resist peer pressure and other negative influences of life. Our Martial Arts training teaches your child life lessons and helps them achieve academic success, develop life goals, avoid peer pressure, stay fit and live a healthy lifestyle.
At American Black Belt Academy, your child will learn the concept of “BLACK BELT EXCELLENCE” which means doing your very BEST, at everything you do! Instilling the concept of “BLACK BELT EXCELLENCE” will inspire your child to strive to display honor and respect at home, achieve academic success in school, and pursue physical accomplishment in the martial arts. Ultimately seeking to become Black Belts in everyday life and gain the success skills that enable them to lead a healthy, goal oriented lifestyle.
Age Appropriate Instruction
Our specialized children's programs are age-specific and professionally designed to teach your children in a fun, exciting, and effective manner. Our children's programs keep your kids physically fit, while showing them the benefits of positive behavior and good manners. But, best of all, valuable personal development lessons have been built into the curriculum to further benefit your children mentally and physically. Our program will help your child learn age appropriate self-defense not ego-driven competitive violence. American Black Belt Academy provides age appropriate instruction to children on two levels; Lil Dragons (age 5-8) and Juniors (age 8-12).
Lil’ Dragons (5-8 years old)
We at the American Black Belt Academy are very concerned with the well being and education of your children. The ages of 5-8 are important years of a child’s development. We understand that younger students have a shorter attention span. Our unique children’s program uses interesting and enjoyable methods to keep student’s attention and teach our young students skills that they will use for a lifetime. Useful skills like; self discipline, focus, listening, and a positive mental attitude. The skills learned in our Lil’ Dragons program will help them develop a more confident and enthusiastic outlook. They will become better students at school, better listeners at home and more ambitious towards the future. More than any other activity, martial arts gives your child the chance to explore their innate abilities. You will marvel as they increase in strength, flexibility, endurance, balance, and focus. This is only the start. Physical skills act as a foundation for something much more important: the development of value skills, both mental and spiritual. If this sounds like serious stuff, don’t worry! Our children’s classes are taught in a safe, fun and exciting environment, where students are not compared to each other, but rather progress at their own pace.
Goshin Juniors (8-12 years old)
While teaching self-discipline, we also teach children the art of self-defense. The ability to protect yourself is an important life skill that should never be undervalued. Children today face more bullies and negative peer pressure than at any other time in our history. Our methods help children explore and understand conflict through role-play and other exercises. They also learn conflict resolution and when they should and shouldn’t use their skills. Studies have shown that children who learn self-defense become more assertive and less aggressive. Children who know how to defend themselves usually don’t have to, because they carry themselves in a more confident manner, and confidence alone is a deterrent to bullies. Your child will learn age appropriate self-defense not ego-driven competitive violence.
At the American Black Belt Academy, we teach a realistic, value based self-defense system that combines karate, kickboxing and jiu-jitsu, so children learn to defend themselves in virtually any situation, whether they are standing up or on the ground. Our integrated martial arts system effectively combines techniques from different arts for a complete system. Many modern schools inefficiently throw techniques from different styles together calling it Mixed Martial Arts, it’s really “Mixed-Up Martial Arts”. Incorrectly combining arts with different tactical philosophies and contradicting objectives creates disorganization and lack of cohesion.
When you properly combine Self-Discipline + Self-Defense, you get unshakable Self-Confidence.
Being Self-confident means – your child believing in himself / herself. We intend for all our students to achieve the goal of Black Belt in rank, but we also want them to become Black Belts in everyday life.
Our program will transform your child and lay the foundation for them to develop into a confident and motivated teen. Our dynamic world class instructors build confidence in our students, and prepare them for life. On the mat, students will be inspired and motivated by instructors that build values that will transcend into success. If you are looking to increase your child’s confidence, focus, self discipline, and the other Black Belt Principles taught at American Black Belt Academy, then call today and let the transformation begin.
LEARN & EARN
The Martial Arts uses the Belt Rank Progression System to teach students to establish goals and see them through. They'll maintain interest and receive positive re-enforcement for their efforts by being awarded color belts and attendance stripes. Their success and rewards are not just about their time in class but are directly linked to their grades and respect at home with parents. Ultimately, this leads to better concentration at school, better grades, and improved manners at home.
Our Belt Ranking System is a goal setting program to help young people make a successful transition to young adulthood by providing opportunities to develop goal setting success skills and work ethic values by earning colored rank belts. As students progress through the Belt System, their success in the martial arts is tied to their academic success in school, respect at home, and good behavior in the community. Instructors will review their report cards and conference with parents about behavior to make sure they are achieving Black Belt success in life. American Black Belt Academy teaches children to be well rounded, and our Instructors reiterate the importance of school work, family life, and responsibility to the local community.
If you would like your child to be a future success, please make stop procrastinating and call today. Successful people are not born, they are created!
The American Black Belt Academy difference
One key thing that sets our school apart from others is that there are no exam/belt testing fees, or other “Hidden Costs”. Belt test fees are the hallmark of many children’s martial arts programs. These “testing” fees tend to be progressively increasing payments for belt rank promotion that can grow to $500.00 for a single "junior" blackbelt exam and may accumulate in excess of $2500.00 or more during normal training duration. Some schools even test students frequently and promote students rapidly just to enhance income. We believe you earn success, you don’t buy it. Therefore, we do not charge for examinations, earned patches, or even the belt you achieve when you pass. When we test a student everyone knows that the only thing influencing the decision is their performance.
Positive role model examples
We believe our Instructors have such impact and influence with the children they teach that they must have specific training in the skills of goal setting and motivation, so each one is fully trained and certified to work with children of all ages. More than just world class training in how to teach children we also require first class standards of personal conduct and individual values. Our Instructors set an example as excellent positive role models.
We teach an innovative martial arts discipline that instills a traditional values system with role models of excellence that represent the future you want for your child and gives your child a morale foundation and a success vision. Without this foundation of values, ethics, and behavioral example you are just brawling. Martial arts training is meant to help develop a mental discipline as well as physical performance. With traditional values training we teach life skills that your children need to succeed in an ever more challenging world.
We make achievement a habit, not a chore!
Children will learn life lessons that will assure a future of success. Children are enrolled in a program that is committed to keeping them away from drugs and gangs. Recent studies show that programs like this that focus on personal achievement are even more effective than team sports!