Taekwondo for Adults

Taekwondo for adults is for anyone 18 and older. In this class, adults learn self defense, how to use weapons, as well as how to meditate. The program helps you recognize and handle situations in which self-defense may be required.  You can learn the techniques you need to defend yourself intelligently in threatening situations. What you learn could prevent you from becoming a victim.

Taekwondo strengthens your body and improves your health through physical exercise and conditioning. Isometric and dynamic tension exercises will allow you to gain better muscle tone and more strength. A gradual building process of safe and easy stretching techniques will enhance flexibility, while breathing and concentration exercises lead to sharper reflexes and senses.

Bring out the positive qualities that have always been part of you! Develop patience, confidence, self-discipline, inner calm, and a consistently positive mental attitude. Overcome fear, self-doubt, anger, jealousy, laziness, and bad habits. You can do it! It takes serious, dedicated training, and most of all, it takes the right program.Meditation techniques can be used to peel away stress and frustrations, reduce anxieties and increase your ability to deal with any situation.

Stress, when allowed to get out of control (or handled poorly) can be the cause of diseases like high blood pressure or ulcers. You will learn techniques to control stress and build a quiet place in your mind and body, so that you can take the worst that life can throw at you and come away a winner.  Meditation can allow you to control your habits, quit smoking, overeating, or alcohol. Meditation will also enable you to think clearer, bring out your natural creativity, and much more.
           
Families and the Martial Arts

It is one of the most beautiful things in the world to watch parents and children training side by side. Parents glow at their children's accomplishments like the execution of a good side kick, or the breaking of their first board. The greater satisfaction, however, comes the bond of love, friendship, understanding and respect that develops between parent and child. Both parents and children share in each others hardships and accomplishments. Parents feel younger, healthier, and greatly fulfilled, and their children become more mature, confident, and well- behaved. Families in the Martial Arts  grow stronger together.

BTMA News

BTMA Students Compete in CTMA Tournament

BTMA Students recently participated in the CTMA Open Championship Tournament in Round Lake.  It was a long day and our students did great!!  Click here for competition results!

 

BTMA Students Qualify for 2009 AAU National Championship

On March 14, 2009 BTMA students attended an AAU National Qualifier Tournament that was held at Mukwonago High School in Mukwonago, WI.  All the students did an excellent job and are now qualified to participate in the AAU Nationals this year! 

Nationals will be held at:

2009 AAU Taekwondo National Championships
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
June 29 -July 4, 2009

To view the qualifier tournament results, please click here