After 32 years of personally instructing every class offered, Grandmaster Craig Balliette feels his students deserve a martial arts school where the owner is at the school every day, not once or twice a week to check in, leaving a child black belt to run the school with little or no experience in the art itself, teaching methods, or business practices and customer service.
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Finding a martial arts school is easy –finding a good school is difficult. “Belt Factories” are simply schools that give belts to students as long as the student is paying tuition, regardless of their ability to perform the required skills. Some schools test all their students every couple of months. Every student is different and will require personal attention and care in order to advance to the next belt level when they are ready.
Lakewood Ranch TaeKwonDo Academy has not watered down or changed the traditional requirements for achieving a black belt. Most schools today give black belts to students before they are truly ready. These schools have changed time and physical requirements for belt advancement to better suit the lifestyle Americans live today: everything fast and now! Receiving the coveted black belt will take at least 5 years if training is not interrupted.
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TaeKwonDo is the Korean art of self defense. Literally translated it means foot, hand, and art; however it is much more than kicking and punching. It is a way of life which includes physical and mental discipline and a philosophy for life. Through TaeKwonDo, all practitioners benefit in the following ways:
Physically– by developing coordination and a strong body
Mentally– by building self confidence, developing a sound mind and good judgment
Philosophically– by learning to respect others, being honest, and always standing by the weak
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For two thousand years TaeKwonDo has been used to teach respect towards oneself and towards others. This respect can be a keynote in the development of a child's discipline and character. In TaeKwonDo one must learn to control the mind as well as the body. Both self and parental respect are natural out-growths of practicing TaeKwonDo.
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