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Attitude Martial Arts Academy
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Welcome to Attitude Martial Arts Academy

An overview of the Academy

Martial Arts for Adults (18yrs +)

Martial Arts for Children from 4yrs of age

Academy facilities and member's gym

Hall for Hire

Equipment requirements

Uniform Requirements

What to expect on your first lesson

Fees, Insurance, Membership, etc

Timetable of classes

Grading information

Holidays and Academy closure

Contact the Academy

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Lil' Dragons with Attitude is a Martial Arts program designed specifically for students from 4 years up to around 8 years of age.  The program will teach your children more than just Martial Arts skills.  Our aim is to develop the social, emotional, physical and intellectual growth of our students.

The syllabus is designed around four main areas, Martial Arts, Exercise, Safety Skills and Life Skills.

  • The Martial Arts skills are a form of Mixed Martial Arts teaching basic kicks, punches and groundwork techniques.  Lil' Dragons do not spar but they will learn to work together holding targets for one another, in teams and pairs.  The Lil' Dragons Martial Arts syllabus provides the foundation for all of their future training, preparing all Lil' Dragons for the more difficult level of study offered in the Junior Warriors.
  • Exercise plays an important role in all of our lives.  It is our job to make exercise fun for your kids, it is part of every class and encouraged outside the Dojo too.. beware parents and guardians, you may have to brush up on your press-ups!
  • Safety and Life Skills are our way of providing a back up to all of the important issues addressed by both parents and teachers in school.  Our methods involve in class discussions and idea sharing, physical activities and games, take-home acitivites and prizes.  Safety Skills encourage your children to develop the basic tools required for protection.  We cover topics such as Fire Safety, First Aid, Stranger Awareness, Health and Hygiene.  Life Skills focus on physical aspects such as Co-ordination and Balance.  We also work on Listening and Memory skills, Discipline and Respect.
Lil' Dragon Connor Madden

Lil' Dragon Connor Madden

Lil Dragon Connor Madden, age 5 1/2 yrs practicing at home.

The whole program is based around a strong reward ethic.  We like to make a big deal of our children and reward their effort in a variety of ways including award stickers, belt stripes, challenge badges and instructor awards.  This offers incentive and a tangible markfor the Lil' DRagons that their effort has helped them achieved a goal.

In contrast we have a firm set of boundaries in place regarding acceptable behaviour.  This is backed up with a set disciplinary procedure including verbal warnings and time-outs.  It is pleasing to say that any discipline rarely goes past a verbal warning.

Lil' Dragons classes are the smallest of our sessions - we will take up to 12 students regularly in any one session.  This ratio is to two Senior Instructors and often one of our Assistant Instructors aswell.  We have even been known to rope in a parent or two to help out!  We commit students to regular spaces rather than hold open sessions, this provides our children with familiarity and stability in their martial arts whilst allowing us to remain commited to smaller class sizes.  When classes are full we operate a waiting list.  We will not overfill our classes - if we were to increase our numbers it would be detrimental to our Lil' Dragons tuition, larger classes means more distraction for the kids and less opportunity for one to one learning.

We currently have Lil' Dragons sessions on every week night, each lasting 30 minutes.  Please refer to our timetable for further details of days and times.  

Information regarding costs, licence, uniform, etc can be found via the links on the left.

If you would like to know more about the Lil' Dragons with Attitude program, please contact us and we will be happy to answer any questions.

LIL' DRAGONS     JUNIOR WARRIORS     JUNIOR COMBAT KICKBOXING & MMA