We Change Children’s
Lives Through Karate
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child’s success throughout life is a direct result of positive life skills
learned early. Traditional martial arts training provides these powerful and
indispensable skills. Perseverance, discipline, self-reliance, fortitude,
initiative, crisis resolution, resilience, creative thinking, honor, respect
and a litany of other life enhancing qualities are absorbed in real time in a
dojo. They are persistently introduced and reinforced, embedded within the
culture of the martial arts and the karate experience itself. “Shape a child's
future through the life transforming potential of karate.”
How Traditional Karate Training Teaches “Life Skills”
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry reports that
sporting events provide the opportunity to teach children how to handle
disappointment, competition, frustration and anger in a respectful manner.
Modeling positive behaviors that are taught by coaches, parents and sporting
officials encourages children to use the same tools to solve conflict in other
areas of their lives.
Quality traditional karate training goes even a step further than simply
mentoring students while they train. The majority of life skills taught to young martial artists
are done while training in the art. All students experience the vast spectrum
of human emotions while on the karate path; frustration, anger, envy, sadness,
exhilarating happiness, resentment, fear (both real and
perceived), the motivation rollercoaster, etc. In the karate school, mentoring
happens in real time. In other words, the child is mentored while experiencing
the emotion, which is vastly more productive than through lecture.
In addition to emotional understanding and control, the mental focus
required to execute extremely well defined karate moves spills over into a
child’s everyday life that will eventually improve study habits, school
performance, and the ability to listen and follow directions. These experiences
instill confidence in the child. A confident child is more resilient to peer
pressure.
Vision
Our vision is to give every child in Glendale, Arizona the opportunity to learn
life skills through the training of traditional karate.
Supporters
There is nothing more important than influencing the next generation.
Great Cause!
To support Uechi Ryu Karate Arizona/ Walden Martial Arts
Supurb cause
I just want to help.
this is a great man doing what he can to make the world a better place he is my friend an I love him an his family very much