I sometimes visit schools, churchs, boy scouts, girl scouts and other local organizations to give talks related to the martial arts. Sometimes those parents are interested in classes for their kids, especially if am able to bring our demonstration team and they get to perform. The vast majority of parents that contact us regarding lessons for their kids are looking for either confidence building, discipline or Focus for their kids.

That's the beauty of martial arts. It teaches your kids respect, courtesy, integrity, goal setting, focus, discipline, confidence, and how to maintain a positive attitude. Now, what parent would not want all of that for their kids? Exactly! All of them want those things for their kids. In a good martial arts school the physical movements of martial arts are blended with the mental aspects of the life skills mentioned above. This seems to be something needed more and more these days and parents seem to be struggling to implement these at home. Through martial arts training and the life skills activities we are able to help parents accomplish this.

Many kids today are involved with a variety of sports and other activities. Martial arts helps them to learn focus, disciplnie and goal setting that can be applied to all of those other activities they are participating in. From a physical standpoint they learn better coordination, hand/foot eye coordination, agility and flexibility. All of this helps them in their other sports activities.

Martial arts also serves as a great cross training tool for athletes. In short martial arts is a great activity all around for kids. Guess what, it is not just for kids. It does all the same stuff for teens and adults too!

Stan Shields

4th Degree Black Belt

Chief Instructor/Owner

ATA Family Martial Arts

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