American Gold

KIDS' PROGRAMS

Children like stability in their environment and schedule.  That's why American Gold Martial Arts offers a year-round program of afterschool care, tutoring, martial arts classes, Christmas Camp, Spring Break Camp and Summer Camp, overnight lockins, parties, regularly scheduled belt testings and promotions, competition team tryouts, team events, parents night outs, fundraising events, etc.  This allows your child to enjoy and thrive in many areas while under one roof and save parents from constant shuttling from one location to another.  We pride ourselves in not being your garden variety afterschool program or babysitter.  We are focused on the overall mental, emotional and physical growth of our students in a long term series of personal goal-setting and success.  Unless we are enrolling a student for a short-term camp program, we are not interested in the revolving door of short-term afterschool programs.

We are also interested in teaching your child to "finish what they started" by staying in our program and achieving a black belt or sash in one or more martial arts.  A student should not quit once they earned a black belt promotion because they need to continue their studies in order to learn what is required in actually being a black belt.  This also carries over to other areas of their lives in their academic school.  Take a tour of our facility and try a week of free classes in order to experience and enjoy what we have designed for your child.  Talk to other AGMA parents so that you'll learn what American Gold has helped their child achieve.  You'll also be surprised when your child doesn't want to leave at the end of the day or wants to come to American Gold when they have a day off from school.  Parents are welcome to observe their children during class and maybe take a few classes with them.  Unlike some other martial arts schools, we welcome your suggestions in our efforts to make our program the best in Hampton Roads.

American Gold Martial Arts believes in building strong minds to maintain strong bodies.  Unlike other programs, we promote, encourage and require good grades and behavior from our students.  In addition to offering homework assistance and tutoring services, we believe in utilizing their high energy levels by having children active and physically involved in classes and activities.  Children who have been previously labeled as hyperactive can now put that energy to good use and allow their minds to focus for a change because we have released their excess energy that was distracting them.  Our classes include a lot of cardio workouts, as well as coordination, strength and flexibility training.

We believe in working hard and playing hard at the same time.  Children enjoy fun and active classes that maintain their focus and interest.  We encourage children to eat properly and limit their junk food diet for the benefit of their health, physical conditioning and abilities.  Your child will become an expert in performing pushups, abdominal exercises, coordination drills and running.  Students improve their self-confidence by achieving personal and physical goals because these classes keep them individually involved and improving instead of having most of them becoming bench warmers in other sports.  Kids can't wait to win their first sparring match or flip their fellow student, which quickly makes them realize they do have strength and physical talent instead of being a weakling.  Don't be surprised that your child will be seen practicing their new martial arts moves at home, in a store and for your friends and relatives.  You'll soon forget they used to be shy and insecure.

American Gold Martial Arts is proud to offer your family a variety of award-winning martial arts classes that will teach your child the "traditional" teachings and practice of Olympic-style of Taekwondo, Judo and Brazillian Jui-Jitsu.  Your child will be allowed to cross-train in more than one style as he or she is capable of handling the additional teachings and requirements.  In order to make the art more practical, useful and fun for young students, we also teach the styles from the "sport" perspective.  This allows your child to burn up their excess energy and focus on the class topic.

We also teach practical self-defense techniques that your child can use to avoid a dangerous situation and to defend themselves until they can escape the attacker.  While you may be enrolling your child to learn the art of these styles, you should encourage your child to learn practical safety strategy and self-defense.  The training he or she will receive in the sport aspect of our classes will enable them to handle a group of bullies with confidence and skill.  Sparring classes are not just learning how to fight offensively and defensively:  It teaches your child to calmly take the kick and apply the kick without fear.  We also teach the use of weapons, such as nunchakus, bo staffs, commas, sais and kendo sticks so that your child will be able to use a similar item (broom handle, tools, bats, etc) to defend against attackers.