Stronger athletes, better focus, and increased confidence are just a few  goals that are a part of  our overall mission to strengthen body and mind, teach practical self-defense, and build character. When teaching Taekwondo at the Asian Arts Center, we not only want the students to become better athletes, but we want them to become well rounded people too.  Our goal is to help students develop character traits  through the use of actionable definition.  Words like integrity and respect are ones that we use to describe someone’s character. In order for the students to develop these character traits, there must be meaning behind the words we teach. For example when we say to the student , “good eye contact”, or “he/she answered back yes sir/ma’am, now I feel respected.” We then instruct the students to go home and show that same respect to their parents. The students can now make the connection between the actions of eye contact and answering back as ways to show respect. We do not have to go into a detailed explanation of the word but rather define the word with actions they understand. Giving actions to these words helps to better our students’ character and  is just another reason why we see such a positive change in our students here at the Asian Arts Center.