10 Reasons to train
1. Freeze the effect time has on your body (to some extent) and watch the effects it has on your skills. Diverse exercises keep you in shape and develop: strength, flexibility, balance, coordination to name a few.
A list of physical benefits
2 Develop life defense skills! For you for your family! Training also develops confidence, avoidance of bad situations, awareness.
3 Interest in the martial arts from movies, tradition, culture, weaponry, etc.
I understand, I was from the Karate Kid generation...
4 Spiritual development is easier when there is a unity between mind body spirit, this is gained through training. Character development with the martial way, is all about guidance on our path within.
A list of spiritual benefits
5 Challenge your mind in new ways of memorization and learning! Martial arts is great for the intellectual as well as the athletic and will help you to become both.
A list of mental benefits
6 Socially reasons: Mainly, it is sometimes boring to train alone. You will have fun make friends, you may also participate with a family member in a studio setting.
Great for home schooled kids.
7 Some may choose the martial arts as a career. So here at Sleeping Lion you learn all elements of movement and defense, healing arts, bussiness management, marketing, student retention, more.
8 Some may want to be a healing artist. At Sleeping Lion we offer this as requested, taught at the pace where you obsorb the knowlege the best.
This has become a popular program at our school.
9 It was prescribed to you . Often we have students sent to us from councilors etc. who believe our program will help a victim of rape, a child with ADD, or other developmental / social issues, problem kids, etc. We have had only success with each and every case so keep sending them our way so we can keep doing gods work!
10 Your sixth sense sent you to us, ok we'll go with that! Learning to follow life's signs, or that little voice, whatever you want to call it led me to the martial arts so come on in!
Know what you are getting...
Relating to adults class at Sleeping Lion Martial Arts.
The average martial arts studio is less than 150 students.
The national average is $94 a month for 2, hour long classes a week.
This is with a year contract as a huge majority of martial arts schools have mandatory contracts.
Often the head instructor or owner is actually more of an administrator.
Black belts are often given just based on the number of classes attended not necessarily individual skill.
There are a large fraction of schools without much of a black belt curriculum.
Most schools teach only one style or one sport.
The majority of schools do not teach their history, culture and lineage or their history of their art.
...As compaired to Sleeping Lion Martial Arts
We have just over 100 students we can handle 150 (tell your friends)
We charge $75 a month for 8 hours of adult classes a week (offering over 12 hours a week The lowest of the top Flagstaff schools)
No contracts, all classes taught by the head instructor, with direct lineage to the founder of every style we teach.
All rank advancement is based on skill, attitude and time - equally.
The black belt level (1st degree) is about 30% through all of our knowledge, for the average student doing just regular classes.
We teach all elements of training. Internal, external, hard, soft, on the feet, on the ground, with a weapon or without.
We also teach all ranges of techniques: Striking arts, blocking/blending, groundwork, joint locking /throwing arts, grappling and more.
There is also the opportunity/ equality of even the beginner to start their own art of personal movement and evolution.
10 reasons to train
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