Family & Children's Classes

Self-Defense and Life Skills for Children!
Convenient Training Time For Parents!

Instructors pair adults with adults, and children with children.
In the photo above, we have 8 children and 8 adults on the floor.
Only those adults with their own children in the class are allowed to participate. 

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The Children & Family Shinbudo (Martial Art Cross-Training) Program provides similar training as our adult Shinbudo program, however, it is optimized for children & young teenagers. It also allows parents to train in the same class as their children if they want to.

This class provides a friendly, safe and enjoyable format of comprehensive training for children at least 7 years old and above. It provides children realistic self-defense training with a focus on fitness, discipline, respect and concentration! Develops essential skills and attitudes in preparation for the many physical and psychological challenges they will face during the rest of their lives!  The training has a very strong emphasis on safety.

Life Skills For Children!
 
7 years old and above

Every parent wants the best for their children, and to prepare them for all the challenges that they will face in the future. Effective self-defense skills are certainly important in today's world full of undesirable people. Real self-defense skills will not only increase their overall confidence, but may even save their life someday. However, the long term benefits of our children's curriculum provides much more than just self-defense skills.

Our program provides your child key traits for future success and happiness including:

  • The confidence & self-esteem to take on new challenges, expect the best from themselves, and to ignore negative peer pressure, drugs, and other unhealthy influences. 
      
  • The focus and discipline to keep going and succeed in whatever they have decided to achieve. Overcoming the habit of quitting, and turning the fear of failure into a fun process of learning. 
       
  • The habit of setting and achieving intermediate goals, and balancing work (training) and play (fun time).
       
  • Social skills including communication, listening, giving and receiving, courtesy and respect.
       
  • Leadership skills (at advanced levels) including taking responsibility, being organized, being a good example, speaking to and leading a group.
       
  • Honor, which is simply doing what is right.

Proper martial art training is especially suited for children with the following common challenges:

  • Overweight or frail children will become physically fit, healthy, and coordinated. Our training will provide a foundation for a healthy and energetic life.
      
  • Shy children become more confident and social. Our carefully structured group training and belt promotion system provides a series of positive experiences that reinforce your child's self-esteem and confidence.
      
  • Overactive children learn to channel their energy and focus their attention in a positive way. 
       
  • Children with discipline problems will develop self-control, listening skills, and learn to follow directions. We enforce good rules of behavior in class, and we expect the same good behavior at home and in school. We work with parents to provide a consistent approach to discipline issues.
       
  • Of course, children that, for whatever reason, have to deal with school yard bullies, excessive peer pressure, or other situations that require real self-defense skills.

Most parents do everything they can to teach life skills to their children. It's not an easy task because this type of education is not found in our schools. Schools provide knowledge for a career, not skills for a life. It's not found on our football, soccer or little league fields either. Team sports tend to focus on how to win a game, not how to win in life. Teaching your child the life skills of goal setting, focus, discipline, confidence, courtesy and honor, at a young age, will have a massive impact on the level of success and happiness he or she enjoys in later life.
   

The Shinbudo Training
(Martial Art Cross-Training)
and

Jiu Jitsu

Shinbudo has a strong emphasis on the Gracie (Brazilian) Jiu Jitsu style. Gracie (Brazilian) Jiu Jitsu has repeatedly proven effective for small or weaker individuals defending against much larger and stronger attackers. Perfect for children! The Shinbudo program is taught and/or supervised by David Arnebeck, the Founder and Head Instructor of the Warrior’s Cove, who is also the student of World Champion, Rickson Gracie, and the Area Representative of the Rickson Gracie International Jiu-Jitsu Association! Rickson Gracie is widely considered to be the best no-holds-barred fighter in the world with an undefeated record of over 400 matches! He is also the undisputed World Jiu-Jitsu Champion. Rickson espouses strong family values and a healthy life-style. He is the epitome of discipline, honor, determination and sportsmanship. Good qualities to pass on to our children!
  

Shinbudo Provides
Comprehensive & REAL
Self-defense Training

If your child ever has the unfortunate need for self-defense, you want their training to WORK! Cross-Training has been repeatedly proven as superior to single-style based systems in realistic fighting situations. FBI and Law Enforcement Statistics, as well as thousands of mixed martial arts competitions show that comprehensive training is needed, especially ground fighting where over 70% of real fights end up, on the ground! 

Comprehensive training must include defense against standing strikes, standing grappling, ground strikes, and most importantly, ground grappling. Most martial art styles focus on standing strikes only! Our Shinbudo program provides effective training in all four areas.

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If you are interested in taking one or more classes at the Warrior's Cove, we suggest you visit during the class you are interested in. We have a seating area for visitors. You may stop by as many times as you like to watch classes. You may also participate in one free class in each program that we offer.  You will find both our instructors and the other members to be friendly, informative, and supportive.

If you have any questions that are not answered at this website, please call or email the office nearest you.


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