Our Little Tigers Program: Basic or Advance is a great way to introduce children ages 4 - 9 to the martial arts.
Focus, concentration, listening, respect and courtesy are stressed in order to develop a child's basic learning skills. Karate skills, exercise, and physical fundamentals are a great way for kids to gain coordination, balance and strength. We understand the importance of fun and variety to maintain high interest and participation.
Silverado Karate offers to young people the opportunity to reach a harmonic equilibrium between body and mind. In fact we find, in Karate, all the essential psychomotor elements.
The great richness of technical program includes, besides the
functional preparatory gymnastics, individual exercises (Kihon and
Kata) and exercises with a partner (Kumite).
Kihon and Kata teach children how to take the maximum advantage from
the potentialities of their own bodies. Moreover this training allows
children to gain self-confidence, thanks to the continuous overcoming
of limits they considered insurmountable.
Studying Kumite, children learn to manage interpersonal relations, to
recognize the partner as a different and, at the same time, equal
person and also to create, with a combination of solidarity and
co-operation, an atmosphere of friendship and deeply-rooted respect.
In the course of time the mentality, acquired during training sessions, is strongly interiorized till becoming rule of life.
It is easy to understand how values emphasized in the practice of this
discipline can be used in each moment of life to face study,
interpersonal relations and every kind of obstacle with the serenity
originated from the confidence in their own means and with respect for
themselves and for others, sure indication of a deep inner maturity.
