Kids TaeKwon-Do in Arbroath
The ORIGINAL & BEST Childrens TaeKwon-Do in Arbroath!
Childrens Taekwondo in Arbroath
We are THE ORIGINAL & BEST source of TaeKwon-Do training in Arbroath, with the highest standard of instruction, & students who are far beyond the abilities of those of our competitors! Our TaeKwon-Do classes are split into separate kids & adults classes, & our kids classes are for children over 8 years of age- younger children are in our specialised Little Ninjas programme. In our Childrens Taekwondo Class in Arbroath we guarantee that your child is getting the best instruction available ANYWHERE!
The MOST qualified Instruction!
Our Children's TaeKwon-Do classes are taught by a locally based instructor who is one of the most experienced & widely qualified Professionals in the UK! Mark Davies started training in TaeKwon-Do in Tayside & Angus's original TaeKwon-Do school back in 1983. He was their first student, & was also the first TaeKwon-Do blackbelt produced in Tayside & Angus. Many of the instructors around the area today hadn't even heard of TaeKwon-Do when Mark was already a Blackbelt. Mark passed his 1st Degree Blackbelt in 1987, & has been teaching since then. Many of Marks Blackbelts from his days at Montrose School of TaeKwon-Do are now senior instructors in their own rights now. The thing that makes Mark different to ALL the other TaeKwon-Do instructors out there is the breadth of his knowledge & training though. Other instructors have only got knowledge of TaeKwon-Do (or whatever art they are teaching), where-as Mark spent many years purely dedicating himself to seeking out & studying some of the worlds more rare Martial Arts. The result is that as well as being a 5th Degree Blackbelt in ITF TaeKwon-Do, he also holds genuinely earned Blackbelt & Instructors credentials in another 7 different systems!
Mark resigned from the UK TaeKwon-Do Federation in 2007 to go in dependant, & he founded 'Progressive TaeKwon-Do'. Progressive TaeKwon-Do retains the main syllabus from General Choi's art, but adds in some concepts from other some of the other arts Mark can teach to make it a more effective self defence system. We also remove a few exercises that are actually detrimental to self defence training. Where almost all the other TaeKwon-Do classes teach what is basically a sport, we teach TaeKwon-Do as a true 'Martial Art' & effective method of self defence.
So how can we benefit your child?
Our Childrens TaeKwon-Do classes are specially for children over 8 years old, & are great fun. They get the most qualified & experienced instruction in our fully equipped Martial Arts Centre. Why have your child training in a church hall with minimal equipment when they could be training in our private fully equipped martial arts centre, with kids of their own stage of development, under an Internationally renowned self defence & personal protection expert?
We are local people. We don't travel to Arbroath & Angus from miles away to do little once a week classes. We have invested a great deal of time & money in our local community, & we genuinely care about our students. We live here, so we make sure that our students, whether they be children or adults, get the highest standard of instruction possible. We are proud to say you can see this in the standard of our students. In class your child will get a good dose of physical exercise; at the end of one of our junior classes you'll see a lot of red faced hot & sweaty students. We are constantly looking for new & innovative exercises & training games to enhance our juniors training with, so although we work them hard they are having great fun too. Your child will develop their physical motor skills through the practice of TaeKwon-Do's movements, techniques & patterns- this will benefit them in any sport or physical pastime they do. They will learn about courage & self control as they have fun sparring in the class with their classmates. And one thing that makes us unique is the amount of personal safety & self defence training we do with our juniors. We GUARANTEE that we do more of this than ANY other TaeKwon-Do class in the UK! The world is becoming increasingly violent, & I'm sure we have all seen the increase in anti social behaviour around us. We actively teach our juniors how to stay safe. All the way through this we do another thing that we're well known for; we constantly emphasise life skills in our classes. Where other classes make the children learn the 'tenets of TaeKwon-Do so they can reel them off at gradings, we make sure that our students understand what Courtesy, Integrity, Perseverance, Self Control, & Indomitable Spirit actually mean & how they can apply them to their lives.
We get many children brought to us because of bullying. It's a sad fact that bullying is a problem in schools, & with the decline in discipline & respect we see increased bullying. Mark is a certified Anti Bullying coach, & we teach our students how to use self confidence & body language to avoid becoming a victim of bullies, & techniques they can use to stop bullying if they are picked on.
We have 'inherited' juniors from other TaeKwon-Do classes, & it is very sad that we have been horrified at the standards we've seen, & it's not the fault of the student. Some TaeKwon-Do organisations these days race their students up through the belts far too quickly, & to do this they need to drop the standard they look for at gradings. To put it simply, one TaeKwon-Do group local to us will get kids from white to Blackbelt in two years training one hour once a week. Our students average four to five years training twice a week! This is actually very dangerous, as the student who has been rushed up the grades now has a false sense of security, believing that they are far more proficient than they actually are. Our students have to earn the right to grade, & have to be of a good enough standard before they are allowed to test. They take longer to get to blackbelt, but it's not meant to be a race; & they are of a far higher standard when they get there.
Choose the best in childrens martial arts
We all want the best for our children, & that includes their education. Unfortunately very often children are just put into any class or pastime, without any thought being given to the quality of the education that their children are getting there, simply because parents don't realise that standards vary greatly; & that one TaeKwon-Do class is not 'just the same' as another TaeKwon-Do class!
We hope that you can see why we are so proud of our Junior TaeKwon-Do programme, & that we really are light-years ahead. We will improve your childs physical & mental fitness, build their confidence if they are lacking self confidence, teach them self control & discipline if they have a little 'too much' confidence, teach them how to stay safe & defend themselves if they have to, how to avoid bullying & deal with it if need be; all at the same time as having fun.
Our parents are welcome to watch the class in our reception & can have a chat & a cup of coffee while the children train, or they can drop them off & collect them at the end of class. Our Childrens TaeKwon-Do Class in Arbroath runs on Tuesday & Thursdays from 6.30pm-7.30pm. Their first two lessons are totally free. Please feel free to call us or email us if you would like to find out more.