With our program we can help your child develop that inner strength. We can help your child grow stronger both mentally and physically. Our classes are small and the students benefit from personal instructions.
The students move at their own pace, gradually developing strength, balance and confidence. They learn how to concentrate, practice and plan and how to think about new situations.
Students learn punching, kicking, blocking, forms (Katas), rolling, breakfalling and numerous techniques with a partner.
Aikido is a defensive martial art, and size or strength does not matter. The children will learn how to defend themselves against larger and stronger opponents and against weapons attacks.
In Aikido kids learn how to learn and succeed.
Kids first listen with their eyes, then with their ears and then with their body.
The kids then absorb and internalize what they learn through repetition and trial and error. And finally what they learn becomes second nature fully integrated.
Kids also learn how to meditate. By means of meditation we can teach our minds to be calm and balanced.
While the mind may be what traps us in unhealthy patterns of stress and imbalance, it is the mind which can free us.
