AIKI KIDS CLUB

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What is the Aiki Kids Club?

The Aiki kids club is a course designed to help your child grow and reach their potential physically and mentally. It uses Aikido techniques, physical challenges, games and activities to get your child healthy and happy. It is rather like the scouts or girl guides in that it uses merit patches, tests, camps and certificates to help your child achieve. It is also about awareness and self defence to keep your child alert and safe.

Fitness and Health

The Aiki kids club is designed to provide your child with a variety of new skills and health benefits. Aikido training will provide your child with a high level of fitness, health, muscular development and flexibility. Your child will become lean and supple which is especially important if your child suffers from obesity or weight management problems. Through various physical games and challenges your child will achieve increase coordination and mind-body connection.

Communication Skills

Aikido training is designed to stimulate the mind as much as it does the body. Training will improve confidence, discipline and communication skills. Your child will have many opportunities to work positively on their characters and relationships with others. Aikido training is a wonderful way to channel the energy of children to build healthy bodies and strong minds. We constantly hear from parents that Aikido training improves their school performance. Children start wearing their school uniforms with pride and make a more concentrated effort in the studies.

Winning Attitude

The ability to set and achieve goals is an important part of every child’s development. At the Ki centre we want to see your child reach and achieve goals. We use a coloured belt system and grading tests to provide your child with a series of goals and rewards (see bellow). We also use merit patches to provide your child with even more ways to develop the mind set of working and achieving.

Social Skills

A very important part of the aikido training is communicating with other children. Communication is both verbal and physical. Aikido training provides your child with a safe environment to develop these communication skills. In today’s environment children do not often get a chance to communicate hands on through physical activity. Learning about ones own strength and appreciating others sensitivity and strength is an important part of learning as a child.

Self Defence

Aiki kids club is about self defence. Your child is taught the basics of aikido which is a highly sophisticated and effective means of self defence. In reality, no child is able to compete fairly against an adult adversary. They can however compete intellectually though a developed sense of awareness and logic. We teach children about safety and awareness so that they may avoid when possible potentially dangerous situations. Further more, your child is taught simple steps to use when in a dangerous situation. It is this awareness that is the single greatest skill you can give children to keep them safe.

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