About the Academy
The Ilyokwan Black Belt Academy is one of the longest established Martial Arts schools in Gloucestershire. Founded in 1995 by Worldwide Martial Arts Hall of Fame 'Master Instructor of the Year' Richard Olpin.
Classes available for Juniors 5-6, 7-12, Teens and Adults. 30 Days FREE trial programme available to all new students.
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Ten reasons Martial Arts benefit children
articlesIn a culture that seems to glorify violence in everything from music to video games and television shows, the idea of enrolling your child in martial arts training classes doesn’t always seem like a good one. While martial arts-centered action films seem to be filled to the brim with violent behavior and gory injuries, you may be surprised to learn that martial arts’ training is actually very beneficial to kids. Like so many other things that Hollywood doesn’t always get right, martial arts isn’t quite the brutal, vicious pastime that it seems! In fact, these are 10 of the reasons why you may want to consider martial arts training for your kids.
If you’re still concerned about encouraging violent tendencies or teaching your child to fight, it may be helpful to visit a school in your area. Speak with the instructors, administrators and other parents to get an idea of how things operate, and hold off on forming a negative opinion of the martial arts until you’ve done a bit of exploratory research.
You may even find that training is the perfect activity for your entire family to do together!
New site design well under way!
blogWe’re currently beavering away behind the scenes on a major re-write of the Academy website.
The main goal is to bring it up to date with some modern features, in particular better compatibility with the way people use the web these days. Most people tend to do their casual browsing on smartphones and tablets etc. so we’re rebuilding from the ground up with a modern ‘responsive’ layout that will automatically scale itself and show content which is suitable for the device you’re running on.
We’re also building in a proper blog based on the worlds best blogging platform ‘WordPress’, which will enable us to keep you updated much more regularly with news and special offers.
Finally, we’re integrating a properly managed mailing list provider which will enable us to have automatic sign-ups to the mailing list, and to provide instant, automatic updates with information sent automatically to new visitors etc.
TSDT – Personal Safety Trainer
blog, newsOn Sunday 24th February, Master Olpin attended certification course with Steve Timperley of Trident Safety and Intervention Systems and is now certified with TSIS as a Personal Safety Trainer within the organisation.
We’ll soon be offering an introductory personal safety workshop as a service to schools, businesses and groups within the local community.
Contact us for further information