MMA | KICKBOXING
Our stand up classes currently include kickboxing, boxing, and the mixture of MMA-style fighting as well. We train ourselves to be well rounded on both our feet and on the ground.
Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a full-contact combat sport that allows a wide variety of fighting techniques and skills from a mixture of other combat sports to be used in competition. The rules allow usage of both striking and grappling techniques while standing and on the ground. Competitions allow athletes of different backgrounds to compete.
What you need for class:
- Compression shirt
- MMA shorts
- Mouthpiece
- Boxing gloves
- Headgear (optional)
- Shin guards
Benefits of Kickboxing
1. Physical Fitness
Child obesity is a real problem that we’re facing today. This is because of how more and more children are spending time in front of the TV, or playing video games and rarely take the time to play outside and sweat it out. Though, even if you’re blessed with a particularly healthy kid, enrolling them in a martial arts class is a good way to teach them a lot of things, with physical fitness being one of them.
2. Essential Life Skills
Another good reason to enroll your child to a martial arts class is to help them develop, what you’d call, “life skills”. This includes discipline, patience, confidence, mental awareness, self-control and so on and so forth. While you may already be teaching your child such things at home, it doesn’t hurt to have somewhere it’s reinforced. In martial arts classes, the many points you’ve raised at home will be driven even further, helping your child develop essential life skills as they grow older.
3. Self Defense
Not that we encourage fighting or anything, but your child needs to know how to, at the very least, defend him or herself. Your child will be taught a lot of things in class, such as how to handle conflicts, personal responsibility, and how to avoid engagements. In this sense, bullies will learn how what they’re doing isn’t good and how the bullied ones can learn how to defend themselves if need be.
4. Correcting Behavior Problems
While this could’ve been part of the “life skills” part, the fact that many children have behavior issues warrants this its own spot on this list. If you’re a parent who wants to improve your child’s attention span, demeanor, self-control, respect for others, confidence, and others, then martial arts will help you with that. However, it’s best that you talk to the instructor first so that he or she knows beforehand what your child is like and what you want your child to learn while in class. If done correctly, your child’s behavior problems and issues could be rectified before they become more severe.