The "Keith Hafner’s Karate" Children’s Program does teach children how to defend themselves...but not in the hard-core, violent way you might imagine.

We teach our students to be safe by using a common sense approach to protection. This means understanding self-defense techniques, self-defense strategy, and conflict resolution techniques.

We also teach body language concepts to our students. Things related to body posture, eye contact, and voice. Things that are designed to give your child a confident appearance...an appearance that communicates, "I am a nice person." and, importantly, "I am not a person you can shove around."

Our second area of emphasis is physical fitness. We develop fundamental athletic skills. Important skills like coordination, flexibility, and body balance. Skills that are required for baseball, soccer, tennis, and golf...but usually aren’t taught very well. They are simply expected. If you have them, you do well. But if you don’t, you're left behind.

But the fact is, those skills are teachable. And when we develop them in our classroom, it just sends the kids back to the ball fields, back to gym class -- not only more capable, but also more confident in that environment.

The 3rd component, however, is our big area. It represents our uniqueness...and also what parents like best about our program.

That is the way that we teach the attitude skills of the Martial Arts. The self-control, self-confidence, the positive thinking. The listening skills, the respect, and the good manners. The ability to focus attention, blocking out distractions. The perseverance and the courage.

And, what is really powerful about our program is that it doesn’t just teach our students about these skills. They actually experience these important skills in our classroom. And they are then taught how to apply these skills when they are away from here.

So, academically, socially, and within the home, our students are empowered to perform at higher levels.

And, what makes it work, what holds all three parts together, is just that it’s so much fun. The teachers are really wonderful people. Our is a friendship based system. Your child will love the Martial Arts at "Keith Hafner’s Karate!"