Youth Gong Fu

Wednesdays / Fridays 3:30 - 5:00pm

Youth Gong Fu focuses on learning dynamic movement principles to strengthen, improve balance, and stretch the entire body. This is a fun, energetic class that teaches practical self-defense while building a true warrior spirit of self-respect.

We believe in creating a family style learning environment for our youth classes. The youth program includes students ranging from 6 to 15 year olds, allowing the students to create a mentor/mentee relationship. Although we have all students together in the same space for training, we are aware of developmental levels and approaches to learning. Each class begins with 20-30 minutes of warm ups designed to build strength, agility, and cardiovascular health. The core of our training focuses on technical martial skills – breathing, tumbling, kicks and punches, and precision of movement – along with an understanding of how our training serves our daily lives. Focus, listening, and respect for others are the three most important values at the core of this class. For our older and more advanced students, this class incorporates more mentally and challenging martial arts and asana practice, including forms-work and two-person drills. We will require our older students to be more mentally and emotionally present than the younger students. At this level, we begin to incorporate a stronger focus on discipline and self-control into our teaching. We also believe in having fun! Much of our curriculum is taught through games and cooperative learning.

All students will be expected to display respect for themselves and others at all times during class. Belts are used to acknowledge students’ development and progress through the curriculum, and represent a level of training that the student is striving to attain, not one that they have already reached.