Our "slow start" program is designed to get your body in tune to the martial arts as both a source of fitness and a lifestyle. It's a great way to get in shape (or back in shape), learn self-defense techniques and master both Tae Kwon Do and basic Jiu-Jitsu. The fundamental goals of the program are to help achieve and one day master concepts that reach far beyond the classroom:

• Harmony of mind, body and spirit
• Physical and mental discipline
• Simplicity and tranquility
• Self-confidence
• Skill in unarmed self-defense
• The art of meditation
• Emotional control

 

The building blocks of this path to mastery are both simple and complex:

• Physical strength - calisthenics, progressive resistance training and weight training
• Physica l stamina - stretching routines and exercises designed to improve cardiovascular performance
• Mental stamina - increased concentration and focus through the forms of Tae Kwon Do and the memorization of its tenets and concepts
• Spiritual awareness - meditation, introspection and respect for both students and instructors

Martial Arts Company promotes and encourages mastery in all phases of both training and how it translates into daily life. Mastery in our career and consciousness simply requires that we constantly produce results beyond the ordinary.  Mastery is the result of consistently going beyond our limits.  For most people, it starts with technical excellence in a chosen field and commitment to excellence.

If you are willing to commit yourself to excellence, to surround yourself with things that represent excellence and to events and experiments that become miracles, your life will change.  (When we speak of miracles, we speak of events or experiments in the real world that are beyond the ordinary.)

Take your first step towards mastery by removing everything in your environment that represents mediocrity, removing your arbitrary limits.  Try surrounding yourself with friends who ask more of you than you do.  Did not some of your best teachers, your coaches, your parents expect more from you?

On the path to mastery, erase any resentment you have towards masters.  Develop compassion for yourself so that you can be in the presence of masters and grow from the experience.  Rather than comparing yourself and resenting people who have mastery, remain open and receptive; let the experience be like the planting of a seed within you that, with nourishment, it will grow into your own individual mastery.

Correction is essential to power and mastery.  You see, we are all ordinary. But a master, rather than condemning himself for his “ordinariness,” will embrace his ordinariness and use it as a foundation for building the extraordinary.

Instead of giving up, as many ordinary people do, he will use his ordinariness to correct his errors, which is essential in the process of attaining mastery.  You must be able to correct yourself without invalidating or condemning yourself, to accept results and improve upon them.  Correct, do not protect.