Martial arts. What is it all about? The cool moves?! Being really strong?! Becoming a ninja?! Well that’s the answer I tend to get from my children or from some of our younger warriors! If you ask me, it’s all about respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others. “Respect yourself and others will respect you” – Confucius I…
YOUR FEEDBACK Because of the wonderful feedback we received from parents over the last month, we are able to quickly improve what we offer… here’s a little list of each point, followed by a breakdown of how we will be improving! MORE Feedback on how my Warrior is doing! Parent and child classes! Shorter emails! Divide the groups more by ability What can…
Martial Arts classes in Wiltshire, Somerset and Dorset WARRIOR-NET ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT After years of developing the warrior-net we finally released this awesome online learning resource earlier this year and are thrilled to be able to offer exclusive access to all of our members. What is it? Warrior-net is a fantastic resource you can access anytime and will help our…
Martial Arts classes in Wiltshire, Somerset and Dorset “Black Belt is not a destination, but rather a journey” – World Taekwondo Family Another exciting month for everyone at The Warrior Academy! With gradings ongoing this week and our first holiday classes in the half term just gone, it has been a very busy one! I would like to start by…
Martial Arts classes in Wiltshire, Somerset and Dorset. “Challenges are what makes life interesting, overcoming them is what makes them meaningful” A massive Happy New Year from all of us here at The Warrior Academy! Hope everybody had a well deserved break! Our young warriors have definitely come into the new year with a huge boost of energy, which has…
Martial Arts classes in Wiltshire, Somerset and Dorset. Success through martial arts. Grading prep has been the focus of the past weeks classes, seeing everyone at the Warrior Academy working tirelessly to assess our 400+ young warriors to see who is ready to be put forward for grading. During these sessions I have been particularly impressed with how many…
Martial Arts classes in Wiltshire, Somerset and Dorset. “If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits, there are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” – Bruce Lee. Welcome back! I hope everybody had a…
Martial Arts classes in Wiltshire, Somerset and Dorset Instructor Matts blog update: “Knowledge will give you power, but character respect…..” – Bruce Lee Leadership was our focus for last weeks classes at The Warrior Academy, encouraging students to lead wherever possible. We had very loud and fun student led warm ups, which have all been different. Its great to see…
Martial Arts classes in Wiltshire, Somerset and Dorset Instructor Matts blog update: “The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there” – Ed Parker I have seen lots of progress this week during our classes focusing on sparring technique. We have been going back to basics, breaking everything down to improve footwork and…
Martial Arts classes in Wiltshire, Somerset and Dorset Instructor Matts blog update: “When your temper rises, lower your fists – when your fists rise, lower your temper.” – Chojun Miyagi Wise words, and through learning martial arts we learn how to respond to difficult and testing situations. Last week we focused on self defence which is a very important…
