Have you ever wondered why the Center’s classes are designed to be either 30, 45, or 60 minutes in length? After tedious research and over 25+ years of experience teaching martial arts to student’s of all ages, the instructors at the Center have found that lengthy workout times do not always mean extra knowledge.

Medical research backs the fact that students training in martial arts, which require fine motor skills and complex movements of the whole body, need between 30 minutes to 60 minutes to train on new skills. To adequately retain these skills, students must experience at least a 6 hour lapse in time and then come back to repeat the same sequence again. Martial Arts not only involves learning new skills like self-defense technique, or Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu submission moves, it also requires strength and conditioning training. Just like weight lifters must rest their bodies between workouts to increase strength upon their next strength training session, so do students of the martial arts. Because the body is in a process of repair after a workout, there must be a period of rest between workouts. A decrease in strength and conditioning occurs when the muscles of the body cannot be repaired after continuous use. Classes with children between ages 3—5 should be kept fast paced and fun. Numerous studies have shown that children in the Early Development stages learn best while having a happy...