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Focus and attention are foundation skills of not just success in learning and applying martial arts but also in many areas of success in life. This week’s drills are designed to help kids practice controlling the urge to allow distractions to steal their focus and stay on task even amidst chaos.

This week kids will learn about and practice increasing their strength and power. They learn and practice how to safely increase their physical strength. Kids also learn and practice different ways to bring more power to their techniques through proper mechanics, intensity, and focus as well as physical strength.

This week is all about ducking, dodging, and fast controlled footwork. Kids learn and practice footwork for defensive and offensive movements, entering, exiting, changing angles, etc. They will also focus on staying calm and focused as they practice controlling reflexive and emotionally charged movements.

Mental and emotional toughness is vital to help kids and adults work through difficult situations and strong emotions. Teaching our children at a young age to learn tools such as meditation, breathwork, mantras, self pep-talks, proper goal setting, dream building, and self image development skills helps set them up for success later in life. While all our camps and classes incorporate these growth experiences this week has an extra focus on experiencing and practicing successfully applying these skills.breathwork, mantras, self pep-talks, proper goal setting, dream building, and self image development skills helps set them up for success later in life. While all our camps and classes  bellevillesummercamps.ca.

To land those cool high kicks and spinning techniques you need to have good balance, coordination, and flexibility. This week kids focus on fun exercises and challenges designed to improve these three areas keep them strong and on their feet at all times. This weeks activities help them build a strong foundation, become difficult to knock over, and land higher kicks with good control.

This week we work on improving speed and good timing. We become faster by removing unnecessary movements and practicing with a focus on speed; striking speed, kicking speed, fast footwork and body movement, speed of motion, reaction speed, etc. It is also important to be able to strike a moving target and find openings, skills that require good timing. Kids will practice improving their speed and timing using a number of fun active drills and friendly competitions.

This week is all about practicing being confident and courageous. Using fun drills we learn about and practice confident body language, speaking with confidence, and overcome challenges that require courage. Kids are presented opportunities to practice successfully handling difficult situations and people, and build confidence through celebrating their courage and successes.

 This week is about learning and practicing the art of deflecting, evading, and intercepting attacks. Kids practice the important skill of remaining calm and focused when under stress to deflect, duck, dodge, catch, and evade simulated strikes/kicks from various levels and angles. 

This week is all about learning how to take your opponent to the ground and how to defend and attack from the ground position. This theme is reserved for our youth training camp kids. They will be learning takedowns, grappling, wrestling, jiu jitsu and the importance of good awareness, communication and respect when training with a partner.