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"Little Ninjas" class, What do I cover?

trackercasey76
trackercasey76 Posts: 781 Member
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The owner of the Studio I teach in wants me to do a 6 week "Little Ninjas" class. This will be a 30 minute class 1 day per week for kids 3-6 years old. My question is what should I cover in this class?

I'm thinking
- Stranger Danger
- Situational awareness
- Focus
- Discipline
- Basic TKD Movements and theories
- Physical coordination

Anything I should add or drop?

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  • HeliumIsNoble
    HeliumIsNoble Posts: 1,213 Member
    edited April 2018
    At that age? Tell an adult if you need the toilet!

    Sorry I can't be more helpful.
  • Dory_42
    Dory_42 Posts: 3,578 Member
    We do all sorts of animal movements with the kids (OK we use most of them with the adults too) which help make the movements in warmup fun. Bonus, they mostly help with BJJ.
  • Versicolour
    Versicolour Posts: 7,164 Member
    Our dojo has a pee wee class for that age group. They do a lot of obstacle courses and circuit training using simple movements. The kids have short attention spans so any talks need to be very short. They had a blast punch a piece of paper (teaching control as they were not allowed to tear the paper)
  • Geocitiesuser
    Geocitiesuser Posts: 1,429 Member
    We have a similar class twice a week as well, and do similar to what Versicolour describes.

    We focus on attention/respect by starting the class with bowing, and jumping jacks. Followed by some light line drills or obstacle courses, and usually ending with punching and kicking a paper target.

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