Based on all of over a 2 decades working with a child development specialist. I was taught that children show developmental milestones based on specific age groups. For Martial arts ages, especially Muay Thai, I Believe the best age groups are:
4 & 6
7 to 9,
10 to 14.
15-17
This was unheard of (And still unfortunately today) as most martial arts schools divided their children into two age groups: 6 and under and 7 and up. Worse some schools for convenience would do ‘family style’ classes from age 3 all the way to adult.
By properly dividing up Children’s classes into more specific age groups I found that it solved many hair-pulling challenges that would occur daily in classes. for the younger students EVERY drill was “too hard” and “too easy” for the older students.
My Muay Thai Curriculum for children takes all that I learned from working with and teaching a child development program to applying it to my Muay Thai KIDZ program so that children could get the valuable self defense skills from Muay Thai kickboxing while doing so in an age-appropriate. In other words teaching children real martial arts with a solid understanding of child development.
Muay Thai KIDZ is an integrating Systems That MAXIMIZES Learning. The curriculum includes ACTIVE LEARNING, and Game-Based Learning drills that kids “play” so that their WORKING MEMORY is stimulated. Not All Schools the same. Even if a school properly Separates children into the correct age groups, they may not understand the child’s stage of development, and the Curriculum would reflect that. As you can see, Muay Thai KIDZ takes training to a whole new level! In fact, kids can’t even join their first class without an age-specific pre-evaluation to identify where his or her strengths are, and also how our program will help in his or her overall growth and development. Muay Thai KIDZ is a product with several decades of ongoing research and development in how children learn and grow. PLUS a deep understanding the art of Muay Thai.
The overall results are children that become the best versions of themselves: physically, intellectually, emotionally, and even socially!
