Kids MMA

CONFIDENCE DISCIPLINE RESPECT FUN

PLAY as the WAY

OUR PHILOSOPHY:

We believe that children learn best through interaction in a way of play. Our approach to training is alive and active.

OUR METHOD:

Our curriculum is designed to hide "boring" repetition by engaging the children in exciting games and drills. These games and drills are aimed at developing athleticism and practical self-defense skills. We employ contemporary training methods, involving movement and resistance of varying intensity, in a safe manner.

The common martial art's philosophy of fluid yielding and movement is living and well represented in children already. As guides we need only to protect and preserve this wellspring and assist them in transferring it smoothly into adulthood. If done correctly, they will mature with the courage and responsibility to successfully pass along what they themselves never lost; their sense of adventure, wonder, and the joy to explore beyond the limits of current modalities of thought.

“Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.”

- Joseph Chilton Pearce

Children have a natural confidence from the moment they are born. They explore, improvise, and innovate with anything at their disposal. Unfortunately in many cases, is conditioned erroneously, and eventually they cease to be the gifted learners they were born to be.

"Work is seen as play and discipline is simply the rules of the game."

1. We do not train children, we assist them to develop to their full potential.

2. We do not condition them to respond predictably through rote technique, we provide the conditions for them to evolve and create dynamic means by which to achieve success.

3. We do not use a win or lose paradigm. We use incremental and progressively increasing challenges in complexity, intensity, and unpredictability to provide the child with positive feedback and "errorless learning."

4. We are not there to think for them. We are there to reinforce an environment conducive to the stability and maintenance of independence, freedom, and creativity.

-Luis Gutierrez

Founder of Play as the Way

VP of SBGi

Children's Classes start at ages 5 and up