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Our children's program emphasizes physical fitness, cooperation, and simple Aikido techniques. Classes are taught in a disciplined yet fun setting, and include stretching, rolling, basic techniques, and games.
Aikido classes provide children with benefits in the following areas:
· Personal Skills: discipline, focus, concentration, self confidence, and self awareness;
· Social Skills: cooperation, tolerance, relating to others, and good manners;
· Physical Skills: flexibility, agility, balance, stamina, and strength;
· Cultural Skills: etiquette, Japanese customs, tradition, counting, language, and clothing.
Development of these skills help children improve in school, sports, and life in general. They learn early on that exercise on a regular basis reduces stress and anxiety in their lives. Classes are initially open to all students attending St. Matthew’s. Students are encouraged to develop sensitivity to their fellow students, to be patient with those who are less advanced, and accepting of those who process the training differently, and to carry that awareness into their lives outside of Aikido.
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Practice mats for St. Matthew's Aikikai have been supplied through a grant from the St. John's Community Wellness Coalition and through a capital recreation grant from the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador. |
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