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11 Incredible Ways Martial Arts for Children Boosts Their Self-Confidence

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Martial Arts For Children

Thinking of enrolling your children in martial arts?

Kids today have much to learn about recreation. Most of the recreational activities they enjoy are online and on their electronic devices. This often leads them to be lazier with activities that don’t involve any electronics.

Parents seek to transform this attitude into something positive, and martial arts hold that transformative power. Martial arts have a lot of positive impacts on the life of your child. This makes it a great choice if you want your kids to explore the world outside electronics.

Most parents have doubts about martial arts for children. They often fear the impact it will have on their minds if they think they’re not good enough. We’re here to tell you how martial arts can boost your children’s self-confidence through these 11 ways.

1. Teaches Them to Stand Up for Themselves

There are many situations where your child will need to stand up for themselves. These often manifest in the form of someone talking down on them. Teachers telling your kids they’re wrong despite them thinking otherwise is another form this takes.

When this happens, you want your child to stand up and tell the other person what’s on their mind. Martial arts help with that by teaching your kids it’s okay to go against the popular opinion. What’s important is that they’re respectful in addressing the situation.

2. Helps them Deter Bullies

Bullying is still prevalent despite the efforts of schools to diminish it. Your child can be a bully’s target without you knowing about it. They often fear telling others as they feel that people will look down on them for not being able to defend themselves.

Enrolling them in martial arts for children can help them deter bullying. Martial arts are a great solution to stop bullying in schools. This is because children learn how to defend themselves and how to handle themselves in a fight if it comes to that.

3. Improves Their Leadership Skills

Children have a common mindset among themselves. They often find it easier to become a follower than a leader. Enrolling your child in martial arts helps them change this mindset by giving them indirect leadership training.

This is because they learn the importance of teamwork during their training. This also teaches them the importance of having someone lead a team.

They’re exposed to examples of leaders in the form of their instructors. They use them as examples to follow when a leading figure is missing in a group.

4. Corrects Their Posture

Poor posture is a factor contributing to why your children are shy. They’re often embarrassed by how they look because it’s different from everyone else. Martial arts will help them correct their posture.

This often happens during training. They do different stretches to make their joints more flexible. Doing this also improves their postures as they continue with training.

5. Martial Arts Show Them Everyone Is the Same

Kids are often shy towards certain individuals. This is because they put them on a pedestal based on certain factors that they think set them apart. This can encourage toxic behavior as these people abuse your kids when they detect the special treatment they receive from them.

Martial arts teach kids a valuable lesson about seeing everyone as equals. This will remove that mindset from your children.

6. It Has a Way of Showing Kids to Embrace Failure

Failure is another thing that makes children shy. They fear to look like a fool in front of people, especially their peers and people they idolize. This often causes them to miss great opportunities for a better future in school.

Enrolling them in martial arts is a great way to remove this. Instructors tell them that being perfect isn’t something to achieve. They teach them that progress is more important than perfection, and that failure is a part of progress.


7. Helps them Focus on Important Matters

Distraction often results in insecurity. Children have a great time doing something until they’re distracted. They often shrink when faced with a crowd, and martial arts will fix that.

Focus is among the seven skills martial arts develop. This will help your children focus on what makes them happy. This will help them achieve greatness in public.

8. Teaches Them Incredible Self Defense

Children often lack the confidence to go out alone to enjoy outdoor activities. This is often because of neighborhood bullies and other dangerous people.

Knowing martial arts will help them feel safer when they’re outside to do activities.

9. Teaches Them Self Awareness

Kids often think they look good when they look awkward in reality. This embarrasses them when they find out how they look from others. This then discourages them from doing it again even if they enjoy it.

An underrated skill learned in martial arts is self-awareness. This helps students learn how their footing is wrong and such. It will also help them know how they look when doing their activities.

10. Great Way to Fight Obesity

Children’s weight is another thing that makes them shy. Kids make the weight of a person a big deal for whatever reason. They often bully someone for being fatter even if it’s only slighter than others.

Martial arts are a great way to keep your kids in shape. The training involved helps them burn excess fat from their bodies. This leads to an easier body shaping process when they grow up.

11. Develops Their Mental Fortitude

Martial arts help not only strengthen the body. Your children also strengthen their minds with each session they attend. This happens when they learn about discipline during training.

They learn that their actions have consequences while they’re training. This makes them aware of their responsibilities when they do something. They also learn that those are their only responsibilities, nothing more.

This takes a lot off of a child’s mind. Doing this strengthens their mental state and helps them become a well-adjusted person.

Enjoy The Benefits of Martial Arts for Children!

Martial arts for children will give them a big boost in confidence. There are many ways this can happen and reading our guide will help you understand how. Enroll your children in martial arts today!

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10 Benefits of Martial Arts for Kids

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3.42 million Americans practiced martial arts in the past year. 

Why are so many kids practicing martial arts? As it turns out, there are a lot of benefits that come with regular martial arts practice. These can help set a kid with skills that will help them the rest of their life.

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Here Are The Top Ten Benefits Of Martial Arts For Kids

1. Build Confidence

Quite a lot that goes into a typical martial arts practice. It all contributes to the way that they build confidence.

Soon, kids learn to control their bodies. They learn to manage the force they use, and the movements they want.

Confidence comes from competence. Once they get a feel for being good at something they usually will not want to stop.

Jacinda Throwing

Each of these factors into building confidence. A martial arts practice can teach your kids that they can overcome anything. They can push through any hardship.

Martial arts also relieves stress, which can ease anxiety. This too contributes to a child's self-confidence.

2. Build Strength

Classes at our academy can be especially rewarding for kids who struggle with team-oriented sports. Many kids need an outlet for their energy, something that rewards their efforts.

And sometimes team sports just don't cut it. They need a productive outlet that's more tailored to their needs.

Moreover, if your kid has struggled with other sports in the past, they should consider martial arts. They'll build strength and get exercise. So on top of these benefits from martial arts, they can still enjoy the benefits of regular exercise, like healthy habits, endorphin release, and stress relief.

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3. Improve Self Control

Learning moves takes practice, repetition, and perseverance.  You have to learn to balance the right amount of force with direction and coordination.

Having to stay still is one of the hardest things for a young child to do. The attention stance you see in the military is a great way to get kids used to the idea of staying still.

All of this puts together improves a child's self-control.

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4. Boosts Focus

Has your child been diagnosed with ADHD? Martial arts can be especially good for kids with ADHD and other attention problems. It boosts the ability to focus and follow through with an action or routine. Kids who practice martial arts can focus for longer periods than those who don't practice.

5. Improves Street Awareness

Specifically, kids who learn martial arts pay better attention to the surrounding environment. This can make the difference between safety and danger. Wouldn't you love for your child to pay attention if they're in a bad neighborhood, or a sketchy person approaches them?

They learn to trust their intuition and avoid dangerous scenarios. This alone can help keep them safe.

Evan Knee Strike

6. It Teaches Respect

Most martial arts are based on a foundation of respect. Respect for the room, for the teacher, for themselves and the environment. Even when lessons are over, kids who practice martial arts can bring it into the real world around them.

Furthermore, you might worry that martial arts will make your kid more violent, but that's simply not the case. They learn to respect the world around them, not react violently to it.

7. Teaches Goal Setting And Perseverance

Specifically, if a student wants to learn a particular routine, they have to break the set down into small motions and actions. But these routines build on top of each other. It's the same way you need to learn how to add fractions before you can learn to multiply them.

Hence, if a kid wants to learn the entire routine, they have to learn to break it down. This transfers over into real-world goal setting and perseverance skills. A child can look back on practicing a particular routine and how all the small steps got them to their goal.

8. Builds Discipline

To get good at martial arts, it takes practice, perseverance, and discipline. Practicing martial arts builds valuable skills. Kids can transfer these skills into other areas of their lives.

For example, discipline can help them push through hard times. It's there when they're struggling with school, other skills, or friendships.

Discipline can get them past the hurdle when they learn to apply for scholarships and college. They will learn to keep going, no matter what.

Nayland Punching

9. Improves Self-Defense

Of course, most parents enroll their kids in martial arts to teach them self-defense, and this is a good way to go. Kids who practice martial arts are better at defending themselves.

So if you want your kid to know what to do if they're in danger, enroll them in martial arts. It'll help them stay calm in a crisis, and get to safety.

Especially with classes for younger children, martial arts teaches tactics to avoid dangerous areas and people. But they also teach nonviolent skills that help a kid who may be dealing with bullies at school.

10. Improves Balance, Posture, And Coordination

Your child starts building moves slowly, piece by piece. It requires balance to move smoothly and slowly from one move into another.

Next, your child will learn to stand up straight and hit their target where they're aiming. They learn to block oncoming attacks. All of this works to build a child's balance, coordination, and posture.

Isabella Jumping Jacks

Martial Arts for Kids Is Loaded With Benefits

In conclusion, kids as young as three years old can take martial arts classes. This will help set them up for the rest of their life.

It'll instill a sense of respect and self-confidence. It'll help them defend themselves, and improve their strength, balance, coordination, and posture.

Therefore, if you want to help your kids, enroll them in a martial arts class.

Ready to take advantage of all the benefits martial arts has to offer? Sign up for our classes today.

Martial Arts For Toddlers

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Can toddlers really learn martial arts?

The Untold Truth About Teaching Martial Arts Classes For Toddlers

Classes for your toddler will be AGE SPECIFIC. We understand that younger students have a shorter attention span.

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Martial Arts For Toddlers

A long time ago, people would ask us "What's the youngest age you can take in as a student?" Almost always, we would reply with "At least 5 years old."

However, since then, we have turned around. We have a completely different outlook on teaching toddlers. Our opinion now is that children ages 3-4 can definitely learn the basics of martial arts. You just have to make sure your expectations are in line with their capabilities.

We recognize that your toddler has very different developmental needs than older kids. 

When we first started teaching this age group we failed terribly. We were trying to teach the class as if the children were 4-9 years old, which was a big mistake. It took us a while but through trial and error, we began to see some success. We had to tweak our curriculum and we had to tweak the time frames we would use in class.

The Secret? Break Up Class Into Sections

You see...

The key to instructing your toddler at this young age is breaking the classes into smaller sections.

So a 40-minute class is actual 4 ten minute classes strung together. Teaching in this way ensures that classes are fun and will hold the interest of a 3-year-old.

Your toddler will never get bored in our martial arts for toddlers class because we do something called disguise repetition. What that means is that there are many ways of practicing the same thing. The blocks and punches practiced in the air during warm-up can also be practiced on the heavy bag during the second section of the class.

Over time we refined this program until we know exactly what to teach and how to teach it to your toddler. It was quite the challenge but now the Little dragons martial arts program is a great success.

What To Expect When You Enroll Your Toddler Into The Martial Arts Classes For Toddlers

The same movements can be practiced against a live opponent during the obstacle course.

This technique allows your toddler to grasp every component of the class. Their confidence increases each time something new is learned.

Your toddler will develop their hand-eye coordination, balance, reaction, and motor skills.

Our school's philosophy in instructing your  toddler is that praise, encouragement, and positive reinforcement are the only things that really work.

What To Expect When You Enroll Your Toddler In Our Martial Arts For Toddlers Class

For children at a young age, we like to work on their coordination skills.

In the martial arts classes for toddlers, we use a lot of the punching mitts and work on a set pattern of various punches or blocks.

One Of The Most Fun Parts Of Martial Arts For Toddlers Class Is Learning Tumbling

The type of workout your toddler gets from tumbling can give them a foundation for life long fitness.

When they learn how to be fit as children they are more likely to remain fit as adults. As they get older they will remember that they can get a really good workout without having to lift weights or do cardio on the elliptical.

Second, the tumbling class gives your toddler flexibility.

Stretching is basically boring for toddlers. They just have to sit there and endure uncomfortable positions. But if you incorporate stretching into movement, the exercises become much more fun

Listening Skills

Thirdly, being in a tumbling class teaches listening skills. We give your toddler a routine that they have to memorize and in doing so, we force them to have to pay attention to. They must become good listeners in order to do the sequence in order.

Lastly, the tumbling class gives your toddler a great sense of balance and spatial awareness.

Balance is not just about learning to stand on one foot. There are actually many different types of balancing that humans need to master in order to be physically coordinated.

Tumbling will build all of these different types of balance skills in your toddler.

Some Of The Things Your Toddler Will Learn In Martial Arts Classes For Toddlers Are:

  • Your child will push their bodies: At this age physical coordination is an important part of their development.
  • Listening Skills: In order to do the moves your toddler will have to pay attention.
  • Your toddler will learn social skills: Every class starts off with the four things required for a polite greeting: Eye contact, a firm handshake, a smile, and an introduction

About Us

The Kawada Family


Here's the story:

I started training in martial arts as a teenager. At that time in my life, I was getting into a LOT of trouble. I was hanging out with the wrong crowd.

But wait, it didn't stop there...

Unfortunately, I was staying out late without calling. Basically, I was a juvenile delinquent. In truth, I was my parent's worst nightmare come true.

Astonishing, isn't it?

Suffice to say I owe my parents a BIG apology!

Anyway, at this time, I wasn't actively looking for the benefits that the martial arts had to offer.

Honestly, I just thought it was the coolest thing in the world to be able to actually learn this stuff. However, it was only after a few months of training that I became aware of all of the benefits that training in martial arts had to offer.

My name is Kevin Kawada and my wife’s name is Renee Kawada. Martial arts training had a remarkable positive impact on my life.

Because of this, we decided to open our own martial arts school in March of 2004. At that time we made a promise to improve the lives of all our students. Truly, we want you to experience the life-transforming experience that is martial arts.

Please come in and see our school in person! We would love to have you as our next student!

Martial Arts For Toddlers Class F.A.Q.

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This Is What People Are Saying About Our Martial Arts For Toddlers Class:


"After the trial class, I was hooked and immediately enrolled my son for a regular program."

"This is the best program to enroll your 3 - 4 yrs old toddler. I was looking for a school because I wanted to start my child early in martial arts. I quickly gave the school a call. After leaving a message, Instructor Renee immediately called me back. She gave me the details of the class and offered my son to try a class.

After the trial class, I was hooked and immediately enrolled my son for a regular program. Instructor Renee and her son Isaac are incredible! They both are very good with children and truly care about their progress.


I'm always impressed by how they are able to keep the attention of the toddlers in class. By the end of class, the toddlers have memorized the moves and are able to do a basic kicking and punching combination!

Las Vegas Kung Fu Academy definitely has a friendly and family atmosphere that is very welcoming to both new and existing students. All of the instructors are always smiling and greeting the children every time they come to class. Thank you, Instructor Kevin, Renee, and Isaac for making it a great and positive place for kids to train!"

Paul G.

"I love this studio! I would recommend the Las Vegas Kung Fu Academy to anyone interested in martial arts. All of the instructors are excellent with the children."

When I first enrolled my daughter, she was very shy. She was a bit reluctant to even walk on the mats. I tried to encourage her but, she would not budge. Instructor Renee saw what was going on and she approached us.


The way Instructor Renee interacted with her was just amazing. She kneeled down onto one knee and spoke to her with a kind and soft voice. Instructor Renee said, "I know it can be scary trying something like this.


But, I think you'll have a lot of fun. Do you want to stand by me? I can be your partner in class?". Instructor Renee kindly offered to hold my daughter's hand. That did the trick! She went onto the mats and did her first class. Ever since then, she is always excited and happy to come to class. Thank you, Instructor Renee!

Christy R.

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Are Wrestling Techniques Useful For Real Self Defense?

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Wrestling May Be One Of The Most Effective Styles For Self Defense

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Is Wrestling Useful For Self Defense?

Are wrestling techniques useful for self-defense? Everyone has their own opinion regarding which is more practical, stand up striking vs. grappling. Some people feel that arts such as boxing and kung fu are more useful. At the same time, others maintain that most fights will end up being a grappling situation. The fight will eventually go to the ground by someone tripping, losing their balance or intentionally by one of the opponents initiating a tackle.

We believe that every martial arts have value. In a self-defense situation, wrestling can be used with great success.

However, it depends on the situation. This is especially true when combining techniques with other grappling arts such as Judo and Silat.

Sometimes, when you combine wrestling and the other arts together you have a very practical method of self-defense. 

Wrestling Submissions Taught In A Safe Way

Our grappling classes do not only focus on self-defense alone. In class, we make sure to emphasize the sport aspects of grappling and wrestling. We firmly believe that pitting yourself against a resisting opponent has much value. But, we try to keep the wrestling classes safe. No groin strikes or eye strikes permitted. We safely work on positioning against a resisting partner.

However, a type of self-defense technique that you can use in our wrestling class is submissions.

Submissions are a way of holding and twisting the opponent's joints. During class, the students are taught to tap their opponent if caught in a submission. When tapped, the opponent then knows to relieve any type of pressure he is applying.

We Would Love To Have You As A Student

Did you know that we have classes 6 days a week? We are looking for highly motivated individuals. We offer wrestling, Judo and Silat classes for both adults and kids. If interested in becoming our student, please contact us at 702-336-1095.

Hollywood Stunts And Fight Choreography Class For Kids

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One of the most fun classes for kids is called fight choreography. The kids learn different types of fight scenes, ranging from a kung fu type story line to an old Western.

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Fight Choreography

One of the best ways to keep kids engaged in their martial arts training is to give them some freedom in how to apply some of the self-defense movements that they learn in Kung Fu class. This is where fight choreography class comes in. For the kids in this video, this class (held on Friday evenings at 5 pm) is one of their favorites.

Fight choreography is like a dance. both parties need to know their part. It involves timing, knowing your range or distance and memorization of the moves. 

Your child will be working with partners to derive a fight scene using a variety of different martial arts styles.

In addition, your kids will learn what a proper reaction would be for the different kinds of strikes, so it would look good on film.

At the end of class, they learn how to perform in front of an audience. All fight scenes are going to have different requirements. Later, students will learn various filming techniques and how to make them look good for the camera. At an advanced level, they will learn how to how to edit their scenes on the computer.

Notably, we are the only martial arts academy in Las Vegas that offers a fight choreography class on an ongoing basis.

Kids Class

Consider this...

The best part is, without any training at all, young children will imitate martial arts movements they see on tv.  Most kids will play fight like this without having any formal instruction. 

How can you beat that?

However, although it is unstructured, it is at the same time very valuable practice, because we actually teach them the correct way to block, strike, grapple, and roll. The kids learn through repetition like any other skill and they practice their fight scene much time in a single class.

Also, this may seem like a purely theatrical class, there is a lot of learning going on here. Timing, rhythm, distancing, striking and blocking are taught to the kids in a very disciplined format.

Eventually, we do correct their technique and the details of each movement. actually teach them the correct way to block, strike, grapple, and roll. Your kids will learn through repetition like any other skill. 

Initially, we don't allow the students to incorporate dialogue into their skits. However, when they get better at creating scenes, they can introduce humor into their skits, similar to what Jackie Chan does in his movies.

Your child will have to wait for the right time to initiate their moves. Timing an opponent in a real fight requires experience. While sparring is the best way to get that experience, fight choreography class is a close second.

Obviously, these kids are not very experienced in martial arts, but you can tell they are having a blast.

Awesome Fight Scene

A few weeks ago we were fortunate enough to have a very talented filmmaker named Ben Malto enroll his kids into our school. His kids are  Matthew and Marisa.

He shot and directed a short film in our fight choreography class. It was a really fast filming session

Over the course of a just single hour, he shot all of this footage! I couldn't believe what he came up with.

Self Defense In Fight Choreography?

Yes, many of the moves look cooler on camera, and some may not work in a real fight, but the skill involved in making a choreographed fight look good is real. As a rule, the fight scene itself needs to look dangerous but at the same time be safe enough for the actors to feel confident that they are not going to get hurt.

A good fight scene is one in which there are blocks and strikes mixed in with kicks joint locking and take-downs. Designing a choreographed fight scene is really fun for students. It lets them show off their skills in a very positive way.

Fight Choreography Is The Most Talked About Class At Our School

Fight Choreography is one of the most fun and exciting classes that we offer.

Again, this is not real fighting but rather the kids make up their own scenes. It's really a great outlet for their creativity. 

The bottom line is when you watch the video you can see that it's not just simplistic punching and kicking. There is a lot of thought that went into choreographing the scene. 

What's more, you might be surprised to know that, I did not help them with creating this scene. All of the fighting moves were put together by these students. It has certain artistry to it and it becomes almost like a dance.

To summarize, I'm pretty sure that none of these kids will grow up to be an actual stuntman working in Hollywood. However, you never know, I hope one day they make it!.

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