Red Mill Commons ATA Martial Arts Virginia Beach

Red Mill Commons ATA Martial Arts

Karate 4 Kids Series

3 Safety Tips Your Child Will Learn In Our Chesapeake Karate School

Sr. Master Tracy Lee Thomas of Changing Lives ATA Martial Arts, an American Taekwondo Association Affiliated Martial Arts academy offers three safety tips that your child will learn in his Chesapeake karate school. Through "Karate For Kids Life Skills System", a special program at CLMA, kids learn how to be safe.

Chesapeake karate

Changing Lives ATA Martial Arts is an award winning Chesapeake karate and martial arts school located in the Virginia Beach area. We have been providing Chesapeake karate and martial arts classes for adults and children for 20 years.

Parents bring their kids to our Chesapeake karate programs for different reasons. Some have children who are overweight and bring them to us to help them slim down. Others want their kids to do better in school and behave around the house. They find that our Chesapeake karate program teaches them the skills to do this. However, many parents bring their kids to our Karate for kids program because they want them to become more safety conscious and learn to extricate themselves from potentially threatening situations.

Chesapeake Karate for Kids

All the programs we offer for kids at our Chesapeake karate school are designed to give kids the tools they need to defend themselves should the need arise. In fact, many of the safety tips and techniques we instill in our karate for kids program are intended to stave off danger before it ever fully materializes.

Never Get Into a Stranger's Car

Young people are open-minded and impressionable. Unfortunately, this also means they can be naive and unsuspecting. One of the safety principles we instill in our karate program is never to get into a stranger's car. We teach our karate kids to politely but firmly refuse. If the stranger is more persistent, we teach them to run away and find a parent or a neighbor. Should push come to shove, the training we provide for kids in our Chesapeake karate program is specially designed to help them overpower an assailant for long enough to break free and flee.

Always Be Aware of Your Surroundings

This is another of the main safety tenets we instill in our Karate for kids program. Often, avoiding a dangerous situation is as simple as crossing to the other side of a street or staying out of dimly lit areas when walking. We teach all our karate students to travel on well-lit, populated paths when walking home from school or a friend's house at night.

Strike Quickly and Run

Even the most well-trained of students at our Karate for kids program would have a hard time going toe to toe with an adult opponent. This is why we teach techniques that are designed to stun assailants long enough to break free and escape to safety. At our facility in Chesapeake, karate techniques like elbow strikes to the face, punches to the groin and jabs to the eye are encouraged because when delivered forcefully, they are capable of disabling an opponent long enough to make good an escape.

If you are interested in finding out how training in our Chesapeake Karate for kids program can help your children to better protect themselves, please contact our headquarters at 757-471-9002 or visit our website at www.atakick.com

Train Hard and Stay Safe!

Master Tracy Thomas
Changing Lives Martial Arts
Master Instructor-7th Degree Black Belt

American Taekwondo Association Affiliated Academies
Krav Maga World Wide Affiliated School

How Changing Lives Martial Arts Can Increase The Quality Of Your Physical Fitness Routine

This article explains how CLMA can increase the quality of one's fitness program. It goes on to detail the various ways in which this will occur.

Changing Lives Martial Arts

Changing Lives Martial Arts is an award winning martial arts training facility located in Virginia Beach. Changing Lives Martial Arts has been helping adults and children improve the quality of their lives since 1991. Taking classes at Changing Lives Martial Arts is a great way to increase your confidence, meet new people and have fun while improving the overall quality of your physical fitness routine.

Maybe you started working out at a conventional gym a couple of years ago. Like most people, you’ve probably had great results at first. However, like a lot of other people, maybe you are starting to feel like you have reached a plateau somewhere along the line. Starting a training program at Changing Lives Martial Arts could be just the thing you need to get your fitness program back in gear.

At Changing Lives Martial Arts, the training we offer provides students with a well-rounded, comprehensive program for complete fitness. By studying at Changing Lives Martial Arts, you will become faster, stronger, leaner and more flexible while simultaneously reducing stress and increasing your level of cardiovascular fitness. Training at Changing Lives Martial Arts will allow you to feel more in tune with your body than you ever have in your life. Martial arts is a holistic practice and along with this attuning to your body, comes a new sense of mental and spiritual calm. Many students at Changing Lives Martial Arts find this mental, physical, and spiritual clarity carries over into every aspect of their lives.

As a seventh degree black belt with 30 years experience teaching martial arts to adults and children at Changing Lives Martial Arts, I pride myself in working with my students to achieve their individual fitness goals. People are different and at Changing Lives Martial Arts, we understand that what works for one student may not work as well for someone else.

Changing Lives Martial Arts has received "Best of the Beach" and "Best of Chesapeake" awards five years consecutively since we first entered the running in 2005. Part of the reason Changing Lives Martial Arts has been successful for so long is that we work with our students to provide them the best possible martial arts training to suit their goals and individual capabilities while also respecting any physical limitations they may have.

If you're bored of lifting weights or walking on the stair-master for hours on end and you feel frustrated with your lack of discernible results, Changing Lives Martial Arts may be the solution you are looking for. Changing Lives Martial arts offers students an excellent means of achieving the best physical fitness of their lives while simultaneously providing them with the tools not only to defend themselves, but also to grow as individuals.

If you would like to find out more about how Changing Lives Martial Arts can increase the quality of your physical fitness regimen, give us a call at 757-471-9002 or check us out on the Web at www.atakick.com

Push yourself, Train Hard and Stay Safe!

Master Tracy Thomas
Changing Lives Martial Arts
Master Instructor-7th Degree Black Belt

American Taekwondo Association Affiliated Academies
Krav Maga World Wide Affiliated School
Changing Lives Krav Maga
CLMA