How Taekwondo helps you study and excel at school!
Hello everyone! This coming week marks the first few days of our brand new school year! Students from Chang’s Taekwondo in South Surrey, Cloverdale, Tsawwassen, Aldergrove, and Mission will be returning to classrooms and looking to make this the best school year yet!
Sometimes we hear students and family members wonder:“What are the benefits in the classroom for training Taekwondo on the mats?”This is an excellent question!A healthy brain is a successful brain, and there are a few components we need to talk about:
- Mental Capacity
- Physical Capacity
- Spiritual Capacity
The mental aspect of Taekwondo training is straightforward:
- Respect
- Discipline
- Integrity
- Self Defence
The list goes on…The training involves situations where we may think we cannot do something; like breaking a wooden board! Or bricks! Or doing an advanced spinning kick… The mind needs to be trained just as much as the body to make sure it is as ready as the body is for new techniques and breaking old limits to improve ourselves and live our best lives. SELF DEFENCE starts with good choices and a good mentality. How is your self esteem?How is your confidence?Do you have the proper tools to deal with a bully or stranger? An attacker?Taekwondo training gives this to you!
The physical aspect of Taekwondo training is more obvious:
- Strength
- Flexibility
- Mobility
- Coordination
- Self Defence
They say martial arts was invented by monks who were trying to sit and meditate all day long, but didn’t have the stamina or strength to sit for too long before collapsing.This rings true today! One of the best parts of Taekwondo training is the stronger bodies we forge in every session.SELF DEFENCE sometimes requires physical action (we hope not!)Do you know how to block an attack?Do you have skills to move an opponent away from you to a safe distance?Could you stop another human being from harming you?*Remember* the goal is not to win, but rather to ‘NOT LOSE.’The spiritual aspect sometimes gets a bad rep, or feelings of mushy gushy stuff…Our Spiritual health is JUST AS IMPORTANT as our physical and mental health.Heres why:
- Resilience
- Personal growth
- Perseverance
- Courtesy
- Compassion
- Humility
- Self Defence
What kind of person do you want to be? What kind of mark do you want to leave on the world? How do you want to be remembered? It is not because of physical attributes, or mental attributes, but rather your spirit or your character that leaves the greatest impact on the people around you.Can we walk a mile in another person’s shoes? Do we have what it takes to show courtesy EVEN to those who don’t deserve it? Can we bow to the title, not the person? Do we have such humility?SELF DEFENCE requires action (sometimes) and maybe even Taekwondo techniques (extremely rare!)… but it takes someone even GREATER to know when NOT to use our Taekwondo.There you have it.Taekwondo is GREAT for improving your experience in the classroom, at the workplace, at home, and in your community.We look forward to serving you again next week—Train hard, and see you on the mats! 
