Martial Arts for Adults and Teens

Team Training :

For Interested Adults and Teens

    The central idea behind team training is that the individual doesn’t become exceptional in a group that’s not universally striving to become exceptional. One star student in a room full of students who don’t apply themselves is only a star in that one room. A star student in a room full of aspiring stars, however, becomes exceptional in the broader world beyond. Kids and adults with no prior martial arts experience join our team, and team spirit should fall into place naturally. Only understand that we do learn at a group pace. Make sure to understand our class schedule because participation is vital. Read more about Team Training below. Use the button, below, to understand our Class Schedule. 

     Team Training simply means that we teach to the class average AND ensure that the class average is always moving forward. In order to do so, we are also teaching the students how to hold their own on a team that depends on every member to advance. The result is that the students will become the best that they can be as aided by a unified group that is expected to set that same success-energy role model. Prospective students and parents of teens should consider carefully, however, whether they believe themselves (or their child) to be up to the challenge. All of team training occurs in 3 classes per week (2 to start!) that team members should do the best to attend (all, or most of), and people of all types can be successful if they are both present in class AND present with positive growth energy. Parents of unmotivated or undisciplined teens should not consider our program a means of making their kids motivated or disciplined. Bringing motivation and discipline is rather a requirement for team participation.

     Crucial to success is regular attendance. Our Team meets 3 times per week, and any new prospective members should carefully consider availability. Read more about Class Schedule on the link, above. New students do attend fewer sessions by a third, but when invited to join the Saturday sessions, their class schedule BECOMES three classes per week. All students have things that come up like travel and illness, but students are taught that they should strive to be successful in all things, which means not robbing progress from one pursuit (school homework, for example) to pay for success in another. Self-denial, self-discipline, self-sacrifice are all tenets of Budo Karate. Perseverance in conjunction with guidance (instruction) is what develops skill.

     All people (men, women, old, young, athletic or not so much) can succeed as members of our team, but there is one cautionary note that prospective adult students, and also parents of prospective teen students should consider : We teach TO THE CLASS AVERAGE and work to ensure that our class average is always advancing. On one hand, this is the greatest gift we can give to our students (and their parents). However, one should also consider a structure, like a marching band for example, and consider the experience the student might have if they chronically can’t stay in lockstep. Because our mandate is to teach to the team average (and an upward moving average at that!) students who are not in lockstep will be nudged back into line. This is highly successful and our students benefit wonderfully, but prospective students should now begin to understand why regular attendance in important.

     At Ligo Dojo, we care for all our students as individuals, but we also always prioritize THE TEAM, and its progress. Sensei Ligo is a teacher, not a coach. This means it’s his job to teach students, but it’s always their job learn and to perform with a strong success energy. Sensei’s Ligo’s job isn’t to “drill sergeant” teenagers into line. Consider the teen student who isn’t excited about karate, but their parents wanted them to participate. In this case, maybe our school isn’t the best place for them. Of course kids might DISCOVER excitement and motivation once starting karate, but prospective students and parents of prospective teen students should be aware that we don’t consider it our role to discipline students who aren’t trying or succeeding. Just think twice, please. And if you do, and still think it’s for you, then we’d absolutely love to have you.