Tae Kwon Do

Arm your family and yourself with Self Esteem!

Is your child armed to succeed in life?

To do well in school?

To stay clear of drugs?

To develop physically and mentally to maximize their unique potential?

Are you in good health and shape? At your optimum weight? Stress-free and relaxed? Confident in your ability to handle yourself against someone threatening you?

Children who attend classes at James O'Connor's Martial Arts and Fitness are destined to succeed in life because we teach them about goals, self-esteem, discipline, and persistence at an early age. More importantly, the traits children learn in our unique program will pay off for the rest of their lives!

Teenagers and Adults who participate in classes at James O'Connor's Martial Arts and Fitness continue building successful lives by building upon the life principles they already know and helping them reach and maintain healthy physical fitness and confidence.

Belts Program

Belt Programs - All ages 7 & up

James O'Connor's Martial Arts & Fitness offers a variety of class times for students of all levels to make it easy for you to practice and progress towards your goals. There are 4 main areas of study at James O'Connor's Martial Arts & Fitness: Defense, Forms, Kicks and Sparring. While we honor the martial arts traditions that go back centuries, we are not static. We constantly seek new and innovative ways to enthuse and excite our students.

Our carefully structured programs go far beyond punching, blocking and kicking. While helping you to acquire effective self-defense skills, we provide a comprehensive program of personal development.

Students who have experienced our program have gained a foundation in the basic tools of success that will last them a lifetime. Much as learning to ride a bike or learning to swim, once the skills of success and achievement are introduced, they never go away. The payoff just keeps on going for the rest of their lives. Lives filled with proud moments of achievement backed by good health and happiness. Where do children learn such wonderful tools?

The answer is a very special program called "The Life Skills Program" and it's found only at Martial Arts and Fitness. As a parent of three children, I feel that one of my strongest responsibilities is to empower my children with the confidence, persistence, and the self-discipline to succeed in school, in sports, and in life.

At Martial Arts and Fitness our unique curriculum of self development, fitness, and fun will teach your child all the key traits necessary to succeed in life. While the more traditional aspects of martial arts such as self-defense are certainly important in today's world, perhaps the most important aspect of our curriculum is not so much the physical aspect, but the mental one.

Our Leadership and Life Skills program will arm your child for the future with all the key traits of success and happiness including:

• The self-esteem and confidence to raise a hand in school and ask questions so they learn while others hold back for fear of embarrassment.
• Martial Arts and Fitness arms your child with a positive attitude and the persistence to succeed. It gets them saying "I can!" rather than "I can't" when dealing with a new problem or challenge.
• We excite children about the pursuit of knowledge in school and teach them the master skill of all success, setting goals.
• Martial Arts and Fitness arms your child with focus, concentration, and self-discipline that helps improve grades.
• Martial Arts and Fitness will help your child develop physically. Our programs increase speed, stamina, and strength in children. They will also develop balance, coordination, and timing, all of which increases performance in many other physical activities.
• To top it all off we teach leadership skills such as motivation and focus, key ingredients for success in anything including getting good grades in school and beyond.
• Perhaps the scariest problem for many parents today...is the thought that their child might get involved with drugs. The number of 'good kids' taking drugs at a younger and younger age is staggering. At Martial Arts and Fitness our programs are designed to promote self confidence and self esteem to give your child the courage to say NO to unhealthy choices despite peer pressure. Recent studies have shown that programs which focus on personal achievement, such as martial arts, are vastly more effective in fighting this problem than any other activity.

Teach your child to spot and avoid danger!
Become confident to handle danger yourself!

While we wish it were not even a factor...the fact remains that we live in a world full of undesirable people. Martial Arts and Fitness will teach you and your child how to spot and avoid danger. What to do in an emergency, basic first aid, and, if necessary, how to protect yourselves from danger. This invaluable skill will not only increase confidence in you and your child but may even save your lives.

Best of all you and your children will have FUN while they learn!

Martial Arts and Fitness is the only place in the world that offers the keys to long term success in such a comprehensive, fun, and exciting environment! Our carefully structured environment will help your child develop physically, mentally, and socially; will help you maintain a healthy adult lifestyle. Because you and your children will be surrounded by others with similar goals and aspirations, each of you will develop positive friendships and healthy peer groups.