Taekwondo Club America

    For Seniors, particularly, martial arts training can be life saving. Seniors can be extremely self-conscious about beginning new adventures later in life. The welcoming and positive nature of martial arts training helps ease fears. By playing to the strengths that seniors bring to a martial arts class, instructors can help smooth their transition from spectator to student.

   Seniors can bring many strengths to the martial arts world like the enhanced ability to focus. Seniors have already experienced school, work and in some cases, family. These are experiences that require disciplined dedication to tasks. Going to work everyday, for example, requires a concentrated effort toward accomplishing that task. Seniors understand the mechanics of martial arts technique and absorb classroom lessons faster than children.

  Falling is a part of the Taekwondo. Students learn early on to turn a potentially harmful fall into a gentle roll by turning their torsos and necks as they hit the practice mats. This knowledge could benefit the hundreds of seniors who fracture hips and other bones each year during falls.

  Since Taekwondo training focuses on learning to maintain balance, learning Taekwondo may also help seniors avoid falls altogether.