At the Asian Arts Center, our instructors have unique challenges and responsibilities to our students. It is no longer enough to be proficient in kicking, punching, forms and breaking boards.  Instructors must be good leaders and mentors to students and guide them through their training. The goal of every instructor should be to build character, confidence, self-esteem, and produce students who can defend themselves against bullies and predators. Today we are faced with young students who are often without a “father-figure” in their home, or lack a proper role model. Morality and self-discipline are words they have rarely heard.

Did you know that one-quarter of serious violent crimes committed in the United States, not including murder, are committed by juveniles. Juveniles accounted for 16% percent of all violent crime arrests and 32% of all property crime arrests in 1999. They accounted for 54% of all arson arrests, 42% of vandalism arrests, 31% of larceny-theft arrests, and 33% of burglary arrests. These are staggering statistics. An instructor’s leadership and mentorship may be the difference between a child who may one day be a success or the one that will continue to fill our prisons.

INSTRUCTORS MUST:

Know themselves and always seek self-improvement.

Instructors should always seek to improve themselves, and through self-awareness recognize their own strengths, weaknesses, assets, and limitations. Recognize strengths and assets, and exploit them. Find your weakness and limitations, and conquer them.

Develop a sense of responsibility among students.

Train students to accept responsibility for themselves and their actions. Teach them that all actions have consequences, and that the skills they learn at the Asian Arts Center should carry them in all aspects of their lives,

Make sound and timely decisions.

Indecision has destroyed the morale of more armies than just about any other factor. When a decision is called for, consider your options, use your best judgment and make the decision. Leaders are decisive. Great leaders through history have made decisions, and even if that decision was incorrect, they took responsibility for it.  As a leader you must take charge of yourself, the situation, and make tough decisions and live with the consequences of that decision.

Set the example.

Students look for advice and approval from their instructors. Students will follow the example that is set for them by those they respect.  Our instructors consistently set examples through actions and deeds. Students will be put off by the “Do as I say, but not as I do” mentality.

You will find the instructors at the Asian Arts Center professional leaders and role models for your children. Good leaders produce new good leaders, and there is no better way to do it than through martial arts at the Asian Arts Center.  Visit one of our locations today and enroll your child in one of our beginner classes, and take advantage of our three-month holiday special for only $150.