Youth Karate - Ages 6 & Up
This program is specifically designed for this age group! The curriculum is tailored to keep children at these ages interested and focused while building better behavior teaching new mental and physical abilities. Gaddis Brothers’ Youth Karate program is similar to other nationally recognized programs, having influence and advice from child phycologists and successful educators. Simply put, it’s a proven program for teaching 5-12 year olds to respect themselves and others. Children learn how to live healthy lives, combat childhood obesity, resist bullying and build coordination and focus that will benefit them for their entire lives!
Classes are typically 40-45 minutes in length and take place 2-3 times per week. At Gaddis Brothers’ Martial Arts, even our 4-6 year olds learn the lessons of respect and courtesy, so every class begins and ends with an organized line up and bowing procedure. Exercises designed to build hand eye and full body coordination follow for approximately 5-10 minutes. The aim of these exercises are to make the act of exercising 'fun' so that your child grows up with a positive impression of physical activity. After warm ups are completed, the instructors spend a few moments going of a word of the week or daily topic. Examples could be a single word like 'self control' or a topic like 'good manners'. Instructors will use about 5 minutes of the class to explain, question and relate these topics to the students. The rest of the class is spent on learning the physical martial arts and skills needed to develop into a strong karate student!
Teen/Adult Karate - Ages 13 and up
Students learn martial arts history, philosophy and physical technique. Gaddis Brothers’ Martial Art's robust curriculum covers basic movements, organized forms, partner training, self defense and sparring for technical skill building.
Classes are 1-hour in length and take place 2-4 times per week. Classes begin with warm up exercises follow for about 15 minutes and can vary from mild to intense, working out the whole body but with a focus on teaching proper routines to our students so that they can take the knowledge with themselves and work out on their own. Fifteen minutes simply isn't enough time for a real work out, so we warm up to avoid injury and hope our students will continue to exercise on their own either at home or a gym.
After warm ups, 30-45 minutes of the class is spent on the day's subjects. Classes focus on four categories: basics, kata (forms), sparring, self defense.
Aside from the classical form and techniques of traditional Karate, students learn Gaddis Brothers’ Martial Arts teen/adult self defense curriculum. This curriculum is reality based, and does not embrace flashy, complicated self defense techniques. Defense against grabs, hold, chokes, headlocks and punches, kicks are taught. At the intermediate and advance level defense against stick and knives are taught. Students learn to strike vital and soft targets with open hands, fists, elbows, knees and kicks, the importance of how they make a stance and posture and how to keep their balance in a self defense situation.
Students have the opportunity to learn kickboxing and typically 15 minutes of live sparring takes place each class after instruction.