We believe the martial arts serve as an excellent tool for character development. This can be achieved by training people to become strong in body and mind - confident, disciplined individuals capable of meeting the difficult challenges of today's society. Our foundational philosophy can be expressed in the following three goals, which we are determined to teach:

Reinforcement of Traditional Family Values

We believe that one of the leading causes for the consistent breakdown of our society is the breakdown of the family. We support the traditional approaches to family development like discipline for children, respect for parents, academic achievements, and loving parents.
We also believe family involvement in our community is vitally important to the development of healthy homes.

Respect for Authority

In every facet of life there is some sort of authority structure. Home, school, and on the job, are just a few examples of authority structures that are important to the survival of our society. Our martial arts program incorporates the disciplines of learning respect for authority by practicing respect in our classes. Every student addresses their instructor and fellow students in terms of respect. Infractions of this practice do not go uncorrected.

Responsibility For Ones Own Actions

It is important for people, especially young people, to learn that each of us is responsible for our personal actions; blame cannot be transferred to another. Corresponding to this valuable lesson is the reality that consequences follow every action. In some cases, there is reward and praise; and in other cases there is penalty and correction. Using several creative formats, like object lessons and role playing, we can help instill this important value into the lives of our students.

It is our desire to see our students enjoy the sport of karate through the relationships they build with other students, the excitement of tournaments, the satisfaction of staying physically fit, the value of setting and achieving goals, and the confidence that comes from knowing how to stay in control of the situations of everyday life.

Discover the Joy of Competition:

Competitive karate is simply a game… a sport. It is not designed to simulate combat or realistic self-defense. We will train those students who desire the challenge of competition in the skills and etiquette needed to properly participate in tournaments. Participation in tournaments is mostly optional. Although, we encourage our black belt candidates to compete at least in one tournament. Students who choose to compete will not be shown favoritism over those who choose not to compete. All students will be treated equally.

Self-defense:

The goal of our self-defense training is to learn how to get control of potentially life-threatening situations so that the ideal results will be that no one is harmed. However, our techniques are effective and designed to provide maximum protection when self-defense is necessary. Included in the physical training the mental training which equips the student to react with sound judgment. Being able to mentally assess a situation is vitally important in order to accomplish the entire goal of self-defense.

Values:

It is our opinion that there is a lack of solid, consistent values that equip people to make sound
decisions and constructive contributions to our society. We believe that people should learn to care about each other. Our values enable us to invest ourselves in our fellow man. We are committed to the development of honesty, respect, kindness, responsibility, integrity, academic excellence, confidence, humility and self-control by using the disciplines of the martial arts.

These kind of values are crucial for the development of people who are willing to serve one another - for the highest good. We promise to give our very best to make our students'
training in the martial arts one of the most rewarding experiences of their lives.

Sincerely

Mr. & Mrs. Mattevi