Hamilton Fairfield Taekwondo

teaching perseverance, courtesy, integrity, self-control, and indomitable spirit

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Programs

The Little Dragons classes are for boys and girls in pre-school (ages 3-5).  The classes are only about 30 minutes long and focus on developing motor and listening skills.  The kids have a great time learning the fundamentals of Taekwondo, improving their physical fitness, flexibility, and balance, and developing their focus, memory, self control and discipline.

The classes usually consist of some warm-up exercises, basic kicking and punching drills, forms, and games.  As the kids improve, they receive advancement recognition on their belts.  When the kids of developed sufficiently, they can also even advance to a colored belt rank.

 
The Juniors Taekwondo class is for children age 6 through 12.  The classes are 45 minutes to 1 hour long.  The children are taught Taekwondo techniques, sparring, basic self defense, basic grappling, and forms.  During this important age, children will improve their physical fitness, refine their motor skills, and improve their coordination and flexibility.  The classes develop better discipline, self control and focus.   The instructors for this age group work very closely with the children to ensure their safety and understanding as they develop these skills

The classes usually consist of a 15 minute warm-up or general exercise period, another 15 - 30 minutes of working on kicking, punching, and defense techniques, and then 15 minutes of light sparring or forms.  Basic self defense techniques and grappling techniques are introduced on an ad hoc basis.  In addition to this regular training, the kids can participate in focused sparring training and up on achieving a brown belt which normally takes about a year and a half, they can participate in a weapon class.   Occasionally, the children in these classes will also play a competitive game toward the end of the class focused on one or more of the skill sets being developed. All of the kids are encouraged to participate in one of the many tournaments that Hamilton-Fairfield Taekwondo supports and our annual breakathon.

 
The Adult Taekwondo class is for ages 13 and up.  Our classes are truly generational and include people from all age groups.  The adult classes are typically 45 minutes to 1 hour long.  The classes include developing Taekwondo kicking and punching techniques, basic self defense, basic grappling, sparring, and forms.  Unlike the Junior class, the adult classes spend more time on self defense and sparring.                                

The typical class consists of a physical fitness or warm-up period at the beginning of the class.  The warm-up period usually lasts about 20 minutes.  Following the warm-up period, the students participate in kicking drills, punching drills, and sparring.  The last part of the class is usually spent on forms and provides a cool down period for the students.  The forms require physical exertion, but the effort is comparatively light to the drills and sparring.  Self defense techniques and basic grappling are intermixed freely in the classes.  Hamilton-Fairfield Taekwondo also offers special classes in sparring, grappling, and weapons.  While the sparring class is normally offered on Friday's, the times for the other classes are dictated by the availability of the specific instructors.

 

 
The CardioFit class is for adults and taught as a kickboxing class.  The class is about 1 hour long and includes 45 minutes of nearly continuous activity and 15 minutes of body sculpting using weights.  The class is great for people that just want to improve their health with a managed work out program or for Taekwondo students seeking to increase their endurance.  Most people find that the CardioFit class is physically more tiring than the Taekwondo class due to the high level of physical activity.