Our Programs
Little Kicks (ages 4 to 6)
Teaching Kids to be champions in life!
The classes are taught in an age appropriate manner that is fun, educational and motivational. Each class is composed of high-energy drills that are designed to build coordination, gross motor skills, balance and focus. Positive recognition and rewards for effort are used to build skills and encourage the students to incorporate the Tenets of TaeKwon-Do (Courtesy, Integrity, Perseverance, Self-Control and Indomitable Spirit) into their lives. This along with our integrated stranger danger instruction, gradually builds the students self-confidence and self-esteem and provides a strong foundation that the students can apply to other parts of their lives.
Junior TaeKwon-Do (ages 7 to 14)
Teaching Kids to unlock their full potential and instill in them core life skills that will enable their continued success on the path of life!
Mr. McDaniel and our instructors have developed a multi-pronged approach over the last 30 years to teach these life skills to kids in a safe and productive environment. Through development in these five areas our students become well-rounded, humble yet confident individuals with the necessary life skills to achieve.
Physical Fitness
With over 2/3 of all children clinically overweight and fully 1/3 fall into the obese category it is vital that kids get involved in a physical activity that will give them good fitness skills for life. Through the study of TaeKwon-Do your child will increase their range of motion (flexibility), stamina, muscle tone and balance. Our organic curriculum at our school allows each level to build upon the accomplishments of the last, leading the students towards great physical fitness with each belt. In addition, they will learn all this in a way that will develop good diet and athletic habits that they will carry with them the rest of their life.
Moral Culture
Arrogance is self-confidence with an absence of humility. Through stressing the Tenets of TaeKwon-Do and working with the students to incorporate them into their everyday lives we strive for our students to become highly self-confident yet humble in their approach to others. Humility should not be mistaken for passivity. In this context humility represents meeting our own needs without arrogantly proclaiming our worth over another, or putting our lesser need over a greater need of another.
Center
Center is an Aikido and/or Zen concept. At its core it is the practice of not reacting to things from either a rigid or passive state of mind or from a rigid or passive physical state (in the event of a physical confrontation). This allows the student to address the situation calmly and with an open mind. From a place of center we become neither the aggressor nor the victim. The students are also encouraged to use this concept in their academic studies to facilitate a broader view of topics.
Goal Setting
When reviewing what sets leaders apart from the masses, repeatedly cited as a key to the leader’s success is their ability to set goals and obtain them. The method that we use to instruct TaeKwon-Do teaches the students how to set goals, define milestones and develop transitional plans to move from one milestone to the next in steady progression towards their end goal.
Self-Defense
No martial arts program would be complete if it did not teach its students to defend themselves. At the American Martial Arts Center we stress that TaeKwon-Do is for Self-Defense only and should never be used outside of that context. We instill in our students that once a conflict becomes violent someone will get hurt and that can never be undone. The physical aspects of our self-defense system are based on easy, straightforward techniques, with special emphasis on teaching the principle of the technique. This way the student can apply it should they find themselves outside of the pre-scripted circumstances we practiced the technique in class. Above all else we teach situational awareness, instructing the student to understand their environment and how to do a risk assessment of their current situation to best prepare themselves should they need to defend themselves. It is unfortunate but necessary in these violent times.
Adult TaeKwon-Do (ages 15 to 100)
The adult program, like the junior program, instills in the student core life skills that can be used in other areas of the students life. The adult program takes into account that adults have different life skills and learning paradigms than our younger students. In that light the concepts of moral culture, center and goal setting are presented as alternatives to what the adult student may or may not have been exposed to in the past. As in all our classes sound understanding of the techniques and their application is core to our method of instruction.
Adult Executive Boxing
Our executive boxing program takes the principles of western boxing and merges them with the basic kicks of TaeKwon-Do. This allows the basic concepts to be taught very quickly and allows both new and experienced participants to proceed to a highly aerobic workout. Light to moderate sparring is part of the curriculum. Come find out why men and women alike are hailing this as the best workout they have ever had and an unrivaled stress reliever!
Tai Chi
For those that prefer a less linear and hard martial art like TaeKwon-Do but would like to increase their muscle tone and range of motion Tai Chi is a great fit! Practiced in China by millions of people each day this martial system has been hailed as an awesome workout for people over 40 and for those suffering chronic illnesses like MS.
Self-Defense
For those that would like to learn a self-defense system but have no interest in a formalized martial arts system like TaeKwon-Do or Tai Chi we offer our Self-Defense program. This is the same self-defense system we teach within our TaeKwon-Do program. Focusing on situational awareness, straightforward and simple self-defense techniques and sound defensive strategies this system can be taught to anyone regardless of age or experience. The classes are setup as beginner, intermediate and advanced and students can sign-up by session. Once a student has graduated from the advanced class, they can sign up for quarterly refresher courses.
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