DID YOU KNOW Our Academy offers more variety and options than any other martial art based gym, school or academy in our local community?
In addition to offering separate age specific training programmes for children, teens and adults, we offer…
- Kickboxing
- Filipino Eskrima
- Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
- Submission Wrestling
- Mixed Martial Arts
- Self-Defence
- Wing Chun Kung-Fu
- Jeet Kune Do
- Traditional Weapons
No other school offers a comparable set of programme choices in our area. We are also rated in the UK’s top 10 performing martial arts schools and have won numerous awards for our training programmes and level of customer service.
Our Mission
The mission at Master St’James Black Belt Academy is to empower our members with the physical, mental and emotional skills necessary to be successful in life.
By emphasizing fitness, self-defence, health, and life skills in a friendly, safe, positive environment, we inspire our students to become more confident, successful contributing members of our community.
The values of respect, self-control, patience, courtesy and integrity are the corner stones of what we teach.
What You Can Expect
Our Academy is one of the premier martial arts school in the UK, guiding individuals from all walks of life and in all age groups, to reach their full potential. The physical benefits of our programmes are matched by equally powerful mental advantages.
Because of their indomitable spirit, the committed martial artist sees huge benefitsin the everyday world. For children, this means better grades in school and better behaviour at home. Teens gain a level of clarity that gives them a huge advantage in dealing with the complexities in their lives. And for adults, this translates directly to increased success in business and more fulfilling personal relationships.
Our Invitation To You
Learning martial arts is fun and provides lifelong benefits, but we know it can be a little intimidating to jump right into a class. We invite you to come in for a FREE TRIAL OFFER with no obligation.
You’ll learn some basics and we’ll answer all your questions.
We’ll give you a tour of our facility and if you’d like, we’ll introduce you to our staff and some of our other members.
You’ll see for yourself how we help people of all ages develop physical and mental skills to help them be their very best in all aspects of their lives.
Call and make an appointment for your first FREE! lesson today….
Master St’James Black Belt Academy 01752 262233
Benefits From Our Programmes
If you are a parent considering what activity might be best for your child, please take a few minutes to read about the benefits your child will receive by enrolling at our Academy. This will give you a very good sense of what our students experience and what their parents see along the way.
Our students discover that they’re capable of much more than they thought possible.
They develop the courage to take on challenges that might have intimated them before. They learn this in their martial arts training, and they apply it at school and at home. As they proceed through our programme, they learn to face their fears and go forward in spite of them.
PerseveranceStudents learn not to give up, even when the going gets tough. Even if at first they fail, they learn to persevere. Through regular conditioning, students also increase their physical stamina. They come to realize that physical stamina and mental perseverance go hand in hand. They learn not to let self-doubts get in their way and they strive harder and longer to reach their goals.
Improved FocusMost children are easily distracted and have relatively short attention spans. Our students learn to “zero in” on critical tasks at hand and develop the ability to stay on task. Normal childhood distractions don’t get in their way. They learn to make eye contact with classroom teachers and pay full attention to what their teacher says.
Power Through Self-Control and Self-Discipline>As they develop the ability to maintain focus, our students learn to develop
self-control. In learning the precision of our physical skills, children develop a high level of self discipline. These attributes combine to produce very high levels of competence. Students demonstrate high levels of effectiveness on the mat, and in school.
From the moment you walk into our school, you and your children will be treated with respect. Children quickly learn that to get respect from others, they must first give respect to others. As our instructors model respect, children quickly learn to emulate this. It soon becomes a habit and respect becomes automatic.
Goal SettingLearning how to set and achieve goals is one of the keys to success in life. Through the martial arts belt system, our students learn how to set appropriate goals and how to stay focused to achieve their goals. As students earn progressively higher belt ranks, these lessons are reinforced. When they ultimately earn their Black Belt, the lesson of setting and achieving goals is ingrained for life.
Self-DefenceLet there be no doubt – Children in our Junior program learn practical and powerful martial arts skills. In every class at every level children learn, practice and refine highly effective self defence strategies and techniques.
Personal DevelopmentIn most sports, you learn life lessons such as “teamwork” and “being a good sport” on the field. But those life lessons are secondary to the sport itself. The goal in those sports is to win games.
Not in Martial Arts. This is one big area that martial arts differs from other sports. The life-skills children learn in martial arts are not by-products of the training, they are the curriculum! Personal development forms the core of martial arts. Martial arts teaches courtesy, humility, integrity, self-control, discipline, confidence and leadership along with many other values as its foundation. Martial arts can become a very personal journey of self-discovery. Not all kids are going to get that from football, basket ball, cricket, or any other sport. But in martial arts, they do, every time they train.
Black Belt ExcellenceOur goal is to help every student earn their Black Belt not only in martial arts, but in life. As students advance in our programme, we continually emphasize the qualities of Black Belt excellence: respect, courage, self control, self discipline and commitment. Children that develop these skills today become the leaders of tomorrow.
If you are looking for an ever evolving activity. based on good moral and social values coupled with physical fitness. An activity which is d100% dedicated to personal growth and rooted in the principles of courtesy, integrity, perseverance, self-control and courage.
Are you looking for something that will give your child confidence and build their self-esteem . . . then Master St’James Black Belt Academy is the school for you and your family!
Let us set you up for success Call today on: 01752 262233
Why Everyone Should Learn Martial Arts
There is a reason why paediatricians, child physiologists, and educators the world over have all alluded to the fact that Martial Arts is one of the most valuable things you can involve your child in.
It goes way beyond self defence and can help a child in nearly every aspect of their life. Improved health and fitness, athletic enhancement, increased confidence, better concentration, better behaviour, more courteous and respectful; martial arts can help in all these areas.
Does this sound too good to be true? It’s not. As a matter of fact, many experts agree that in this day and age of escalating childhood obesity, increased playground violence and deteriorating family structure, if you do nothing else for your child, you should make sure that they learn how to swim and they learn martial arts. Let’s discuss why.
Self Defence: “Practice the fight so that you don’t have to” is a phrase that is often used to describe the self defence benefits of martial arts training.
It refers to the fact that as a child becomes more confident in their ability to defend themselves through martial arts training, the need to defend themselves automatically decreases because they unconsciously begin to carry themselves in a more confident manner and that confidence is projected to those around them, making them less vulnerable to predatory behaviour.
On top of that, martial arts’ training includes strategic self defence as well as actual self defence. Children are taught how to recognize a potentially dangerous situation and how to avoid confrontations.
Athletic Enhancement: There is a reason why virtually every professional sports team in virtually every major sport supplements their training with martial arts. Martial arts training offer several advantages. First off, it is amazingly effective in enhancing general coordination because it uses every part of the body in a balanced way. Upper body, lower body, right side, left side, forward movement, lateral movement, rotational movement, it’s all included in martial arts training.
Fitness: The three pieces of the fitness puzzle are strength, flexibility and endurance. Martial arts training demand a balance between the three. Therefore, a child who trains in martial arts will find their deficiencies greatly enhanced. Also, because of the balance in the three pieces of the fitness puzzle, they are less likely to injure themselves while participating in other athletic endeavours.
Health: Martial arts training is a proven link to better health for people of all ages, but especially children for several reasons. First off, it is great exercise. But because it is fun, kids don’t mind doing it. Discussing diet and lifestyle habits with students is a part of martial arts training, so children who grow up training develop healthy habits that will stick with them for life.
Concentration: Very few activities engage the mind, body and spirit more than martial arts. Because of this, a child’s ability to concentrate is greatly enhanced by their martial arts training and this concentration tends to be easily transferable to other activities.
Respect and Courtesy: Due to the fact that martial arts teaches techniques that could be harmful to others if applied, martial arts instructors are obliged to stress the importance of respect, courtesy, and restraint. It has been proven time and again that children who are skilled in martial arts tend to be extremely respectful, considerate and composed.
Confidence: Martial arts virtually always lends to increased confidence in children for a couple of specific reasons. First off, there are no bench sitters, every child participates and is evaluated not against others but more importantly, against their own potential. Secondly, the structure of martial arts is built on the concept of setting children up for success by giving them a series of realistic, short term goals that they can attain quickly (coloured belts) while keeping them focused on an exciting, long term goal (Black Belt). Each time they experience success, their confidence improves until they believe that with hard work and dedication, they can accomplish just about anything.
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