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Youth JKD Class

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Providing the Very Best Training Available
Our kids program offers the same high quality training that we provide our adults in a program that is taught in a format perfectly suited for kids. They train in a modern, mixed style of martial arts that incorporates the best of the various martial arts that we train at the AFS Academy. For more info on styles, go here.

The kids program consists of kickboxing, close range and clinch as well as wrestling and groundfighting. It's important for children to learn to be proficient in all ranges of self-defense, not just one. This is one of the major things that seperates the AFS Academy from all other schools in the area.

Realistic Self-Defense, Not Fantasy
     Our program focuses on providing the youth in our school with the most realistic self-defense training possible. Many schools spend most of their time teaching techniques that would not work in a real life situation. In addition, they will spend most of your child's valuable training time practicing "katas" which do nothing to improve the most important self-defense attributes. Instead, we constantly work athletically based drills to develop your childs timing, distancing, rhythym, coordination, balance and control with a real life opponent, not an imaginary one.
      Too often a parent spends their hard earned money and precious time to send their child to martial art lessons and then find out the hard way that he/she can't defend themselves.
     The sad fact is that most "karate" schools are nothing more than "black belt mills" that really teach nothing more than fancy techniques, untested theory, and unnecessary yelling. Most schools simply run the class with one objective: keep the students coming and the money flowing.

Our objective is simple: teach our youth proper values and ethics of martial arts while also providing practical self-defense in a fun environment to promote better learning.

Values, Ethics, Morals.
The kids in our program don't just learn self-defense, instead, they are constantly taught what it means to be a Black Belt and a martial artist. In fact, most children already have a pretty good idea what it means to be a Black Belt. They already know that a Black Belt should be kind, courteous, self-confident, hardworking, self-disciplined, etc. Most children already know these values and want to embody them. It then becomes our job to help them find their way to that goal. We do this through an outstanding program that extends itself outside of our school and into their everyday lives. It is truly amazing when the things that you want your kids to embody are tied into what it means to be a Black Belt or a "Martial Art Mindset".

Fitness and Fun!!
There isn't much that can beat the martial arts for a good workout, and with schools cutting back more and more on physical education, this is very important. All the drilling, sparring and wrestling that they do provide an excellent full body workout. Combined with the various physical conditioning exercises like push-ups, ab-work, lunges, squats and pull-ups, your child will be well on their way to developing great strong, healthy bodies. Furthermore, they have fun doing it and martial arts provide a reason to exercise other than just because "it's good for you".

Teach Them To Be Safe
In addition to teaching them physical self defense, we also train our kids how to avoid danger in the first place. Conflict resolution training is learning how to end a fight before it starts. This leads into understanding how to deal with the bully. Most importantly, we teach the danger of the stranger. We go over many of the ways that "bad people" seek to abduct or hurt children like them and how to recognize and avoid it. Again, this is most powerful when it is tied into their "martial art mindset".

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Questions?
If you have any questions or need any more info, please feel free to stop by, call or email us.

Phone: 1(859)623-8023

Email: Director@AFSacademy.com