Our Little Dragons (or Lil’ Dragons as we like to call them) are famous and they got to show their skills to the whole of Queensland when they were featured on Channel 10 news a few years back.
Lil’ Dragons is an age-appropriate preliminary martial arts curriculum for pre-schoolers and prep kids that focuses on improving basic motor skills, listening skills, and focus skills, as well as personal safety issues such as fire safety, good secrets and bad secrets, stranger danger and so much more.
Understanding how to wait their turn, not throwing objects in frustration, learning how to follow directions, being excited to exercise and learn new things and having the confidence to tackle new challenges are all lessons that a child must learn. There are many factors that will affect a child’s development and behaviours, but there are few places that can be as fun, positive and enthusiastically educational as our Kidz Karate Lil’ Dragons program.
Our program will enhance positive development in a fun and encouraging way. By enrolling your child in our Lil’ Dragons classes, you’ll be helping them learn how to make positive choices, expose them to positive role models, promote a healthy approach to life and you’ll be giving them a safe place where they can develop the confidence to do what is right. Other benefits include:
- Confidence: By learning how to protect themself, your child will develop confidence in their ability to handle life’s challenges. In turn, their improved confidence will give them the courage to say “no” to negative influences.
- Focus: We will help your child increase their focus by giving them clear goals and showing them how to reach those goals through hard work and being consistent.
- Self-control: Kids learn self-control in the martial arts in a number of ways. They learn how important it is to have respect, both for themselves and for others. Martial arts training teaches that in order to get respect, you first have to give it. Once your child learns this important lesson, their self-control will naturally increase.
- Self-discipline: As a child progresses through the ranks of martial arts the technical and fitness requirements increase (in age specific stages). We work with children to safely explore their physical boundaries and learn some of life’s tough lessons in a caring and supportive environment.
The Lil’ Dragons program is a preliminary martial arts training curriculum focusing on fundamental skill development necessary to efficiently and effectively participate in the martial arts. We also work on developmentally appropriate ways using our age specific curriculum and kieeping with realistic behavioural expectations for their age.
The Little Dragons Program will also prepare your child for our Junior Dragons Program. In the Little Dragon classes, your child will be exposed to positive social interaction. They will learn how to work with others and follow directions from their instructors. Our Little Dragons instructors are good role models who are trained specifically to work with children of this age. Classes are of 30 minutes duration so as not to overtax developing young minds.
The Little Dragons program incorporates 10 belt levels which mirror the colour progression of the older age classes. They obtain these belts during belt graduations which are conducted every 20 lessons that the Lil’ Dragon attends. That works out to be about once per school term (even though they don’t go to school yet!). The belt graduations are done in class. The Little Dragons belt system is designed to teach your child to set and achieve goals.
The Little Dragons belts are held closed with Velcro and, like the older kids they progress through developmentally appropriate skills (shown below left) and their rank is denoted by coloured Velcro wraps (shown below ):
When Little Dragons graduate into the Junior Dragon Karate classes, they will be presented with their first striped colour belt – their yellow stripe belt!
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