There are a lot of emotional benefits available to kids who study the martial arts. We’ve talked about some of them already, but today I’m going to talk about one that sometimes gets overlooked: Martial arts classes are a great place to make friends! Think about how most of us make friends. Friendships often start […]
You know how that saying goes, right? Try, try again! And that brings us to our next core tenet of martial arts: perseverance. Perseverance is what keeps us going when it would be easier to give up. It’s what makes us get up when we fall down – and it often means the difference between […]
Bullying is in the news a lot these days. Hardly a day passes without there being a story about a child who was at the receiving end of bullying – and it can have terrible consequences. When we look at the problem of bullying, it’s important to do it from both sides. Why are some […]
I will never forget the bright yellow sign that was posted in the lobby of my Tae Kwon Do School. It said “To be Early is to be On Time, to be On Time is to be Late.” I literally read that sign thousands of time over the years – and let me tell you – […]
From a very young age, my father always told me that everything in this life is to be earned and one of the reasons why I respect the Martial Arts so much is that it teaches you this very important life lesson every time you step on the mat. Now that your child has been […]
What makes Gracie PAC so amazing is not only our wonderful members, but our Team who makes sure she runs like a well oiled machine. I wanted to give some quick background of the mentors your child now has in their life. Coach Darion is the Assistant Instructor to our Children and Teens Program. You […]
As parents, we want what’s best for our children. The reality is that today’s children are pushed to their limits with extra-curricular activities by well-meaning parents. With that said, I’ve put together some details about how over-committing children are retroactive for their development. For starters, let’s look at why we tend to over-commit our children: […]
The term “Martial Arts” is a relatively broad expression that encompasses a variety of different disciplines. Typically, when we hear the words martial arts, the first ideas that come to mind are one or more of the techniques that have developed in Asian countries. However, the martial arts are comprised of most types of fighting […]
“As to the origin and native land of Ju Jutsu, there are several opinions, but they are found to be mere assumptions based on narratives relating to the founding of certain schools, or some incidental records or illustrations found in the ancient manuscripts not only in Japan but in China, Persia, Germany, and Egypt. There […]
After training in the martial arts for the past 25 years, and personally experiencing all of the life altering changes the martial arts provides, I know without a shadow of a doubt that training in the martial arts is literally PRICELESS. If you told me right now that you’d deposit 30 million dollars into my […]