One of the key life skills we can instil and develop in our children is goal setting and doing what is necessary to achieve those goals.
Martial arts is a fantastic way to introduce them to this.
Through consistent training, our students will work towards achieving their next belt every 3-6 months. This timeframe increases a bit when they reach the senior level belts, where a new belt is earned every 6-9 months.
Each belt is a new goal!
Naturally, the over-arching goal is to achieve their black belt, but this takes a few years of consistent training to achieve. But breaking this down into each belt, gives them a sense of continual achievement. Each new belt becoming a milestone on their journey.
Small steps to each goal
Each time they attend class, they earn a stripe on their belt. After they have collected enough stripes, and we are satisfied they are ready, they are invited to a grading.
On successful completion of their grading and any other work necessary towards their belt, they earn their belt promotion, and achieve a goal!
The nature of this process means they are consistently working towards a tangible goal.
This can have a profound impact on other areas of their life as well – in school, and in the home.
We’ve seen first-hand how some of our students start setting other goals in their lives and start working towards them using the same discipline they apply to their martial arts training.
Goal setting is an important part of our curriculum, and it’s a topic we often include in our mat chat, which features in every junior class.
Would your child benefit from setting some new goals… why not put us to the test?
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