Karate Classes for Kids North Shore Ma

Karate Classes for Kids. The Decision is Yours
written by: Master McCorry

Karate: The King among the Martial Arts
Karate is a contact-based martial art which hails from Ryukyu Island,
Japan. Developed by the Ryukyu kings, Karate beautifully blends effective
knee and elbow punches with palm-heel punches. The cultural transmissions
between Ryukyu and the Japanese resulted in the spreading of this martial
art to Japan. With Hollywood focusing on Karate during 1960s and 1970s,
gradually it started getting worldwide recognition. Traditionally, Karate
focuses on the dual aspects of attacking and defensing. As a result of the
interlinking between psychology and martial arts, a third dimension of
moral and mental benefit is being recognized now.

The Benefits of Karate for Kids
Parents often misunderstand karate as a martial art too heavy for kids.
But karate is not a burden for kids. On the contrary, it can actually
benefit your kid in many ways. Child specialists, psychologists and martial
arts experts have noted five benefits of karate for kids.

1. Health and Energy
Karate can make your kid healthy and energetic. It effectively utilizes
the time your kids waste away in front of the television and computer. As a
result of karate lessons, kids become alert and active. Their body
coordination improves; fitness and flexibility increase. 

2. Self-worth and Confidence
Karate has a profound effect in character formation. Karate makes your kid
believe in himself/herself. They learn to value themselves. Their self
confidence improves. They get the power to face the world. Karate makes
them break out of inhibition and shyness.

3. Defense
In many circumstances, kids may have to defend themselves, physically and
mentally. These circumstances range from classroom bullying to violence
against children. Karate helps your kids to remain always prepared and able
to defend themselves.

4. Recognizing the Strange
Children are usually prone to dangers. The main reason is that, in their
naivete, they fail to recognize the strange and the weird things going on
around them. Karate teaches a kid to distinguish between what is normal and
what is not. If properly taught, the child can read signs of danger from
the way somebody approaches, talks and behaves with them.

5. Mental Power
An old Japanese maxim goes like this: “25% of Karate is in body, the rest
75% is in mind”. Karate improves memory, reasoning, thought-process and
reaction abilities. It helps kids to cope better with stress.

A Word for the Parents: The Decision is Yours
In modern families, it is a recurring occurrence that kids take control of
the situation and start imposing their decisions upon parents. Children
lack experience, they often don’t have the ability to discriminate or
foresee. They often don’t think of the 'other side', and mostly think from
their own point of view. Parents know better because of their experience of
knowing the ways of the world for so long. So, how favorable is this
tendency of children taking decisions?

It is okay to consider and give enough space to the opinions and wishes of
the kids. It is also okay to let them take decisions in smaller matters,
which do not have a full-fledged impact on their (or your) lives. But in
the matters of importance, the decision should be yours.

Is it possible to convince children this? Will they realize that their
parents take decisions for their own good? Karate teaches them this as
well. Karate makes the children realize the fact that their parents, with
all their knowledge and experience, are probable to take better decisions
when it comes to matters of consequence.

Bruce McCorry’s: The Elysium of Karate Students
Thousands of aspiring Karate learners flock every year to the Bruce
McCorry’s Martial Arts Academy (West Peabody, Massachusetts). The academy
has a legacy of forty years in the arena of martial arts. Bruce McCorry’s
is specially known for their Karate lessons. The academy follows a
structured syllabus in Karate that begins from the basics. The masters at
Bruce McCorry’s are world-renowned veterans in their respective martial
arts. Enroll you kid at Bruce McCorry’s for the ultimate karate learning
experience. The Decision is Yours.

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