Karate and Coordination: Enhancing Motor Skills in Kids
Introducing your child to the world of karate through local Karate Clubs or Karate Schools can be a rewarding decision for both their physical and mental development.
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5 Martial Arts Tips for Beginners
As a parent or caregiver, your support, encouragement, and guidance are invaluable in making this journey a success. Be actively involved, communicate with instructors, and motivate your child to embrace the values and teachings of martial arts.
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Angling Clubs for Kids
With Australia's vast coastline and many rivers, fishing is a sport that anyone can enjoy! Taking your kids angling has many benefits for all the family, including a great opportunity for bonding, a chance to relax and helping children develop an interest in the environment
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Snowboarding Clubs for Kids
What better way to enjoy the snow than with the whole family on the slopes!<br /><br />. Being naturally energetic, participating in winter sports is a great way to burn their energy, while having fun and keeping fit. Snowboarding, introduced in Australia in 1998, is a popular snow sport among kids today.
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How to excel in Martial Arts – outside of the Dojo
The problem seems to be that students are not shown the simple idea behind home training. Hours and hours of training at home is not what the instructor is asking of the student. The key to home training comes back to the same idea mentioned at the top of this article, repetition. This can be a simple 15-minute training session at home done daily or even every second day but it’s this repetition that is key!
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10 reasons to learn a musical instrument
1. It’s enjoyable! 2. It’s a great way to meet new people 3. It builds your self-confidence 4. Develops your patience 5. Enhances your creative ability 6. Teaches you self-discipline 7. Boosts your memory 8. Brings with it a sense of achievement 9. Reduces your stress levels 10. Improves cognitive skills
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Futsal - the best skills developer
A study has compared Futsal to Football and concluded that Futsal can help kids develop technical skills and transform them into quick decision makers. The study concluded that Futsal players execute passes with a higher intensity as they make 23% more passes per minute that are 18% more accurately than football players. Find out more here.
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Contemporary Dance for Kids
Let your child express themselves through contemporary dance, a great way for them to dance in a less academic and funnier way. Your kids will learn how to get creative will performing this original dance type.
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Musical Instruments For Kids
Enhance your kid’s passion for the arts and music! Encourage them to play musical instruments!<br><br>Give your kids the gift of music as early possible. They can start by listening to their favourite songs and they can also sing along with it. They can then learn to play musical instruments. Attending music lessons helps cultivate many skills that they can apply in every aspect of their lives.
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Cricket Coaching tips for Aussie kids
Cricket coaching in school holidays is a perfect time to ensure cricketing skills don’t become rusty for junior cricketers of all abilities. In fact, the school holidays gives you plenty of time to continue practicing your game so that when the season recommences, you can remain at the top of your game. You just need a plan and some creativity. Here are some coaching strategies junior cricketers can use to stay in form year round!
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Karate for Life
This article has been written to shed light on the multitude of other life enhancing benefits martial arts and, in this case, karate has on any individual who commits themselves to training.
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Just breathe – 3 calming techniques for you and your child
Teaching our kids conscious breathing can help them learn to regulate their emotions. It can be the difference that stops a full-scale meltdown in the middle of the supermarket, for both you and your child. Here are a few techniques that can be done anywhere, at any time.
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Pilates For Kids
Lead your kids into a healthy lifestyle. Do Pilates together!<br><br>Pilates is a form of exercise developed in the early 20th century by Joseph Pilates. It is a physical fitness system intended to strengthen the mind and the body as Joseph Pilates believed that mental and physical health are connected. He also believes that Pilates uses the mind to control the muscles. In 1934, he discussed in his book, Your Health, about his concern with the state of kids health.
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Drums for Kids
Is your child a budding rock star? Perhaps they can drum up some fame and fortune!<br><br>For kids, drumming can be a satisfying and fun way to develop their musical skills and release some tension!
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Nippers Club for Kids
Your kids can learn valuable lifesaving skills while having fun!<br><br>Designed to teach kids the basics of lifesaving and water safety, it is also a great way for kids to make friends!
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What is Rhee Tae Kwon Do?
Rhee Tae Kwon Do is most assuredly a dynamic and extremely effective martial art, more valid in the violent times we live in than ever before. But the art reaches much further than mere combat effectiveness. The discipline, mental training, and varied techniques of Rhee Tae Kwon Do also provide the ground for engendering in the practitioner a strong sense of justice, fortitude, compassion, humility, and resolve.
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National Parks for kids in the Brisbane Region
Whether you’re in for a relaxing or an adventurous weekend, the national parks in the Brisbane region are perfect places for family bonding!<br /><br />Kids, being naturally active and energetic, always need to learn and experience something new, something exciting and will get them up and about. If you decide to take them to Brisbane in the weekends or spend the school holidays in Queensland, why not have some leisure time at the national parks?
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Art schools for kids
Art makes kids smarter! Looking for a productive way to spend your kids' school holidays? Try an art school for kids!
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Accordion teachers
Get your kids to play folk tunes on the accordion! The modern version of the accordion is played by compressing or expanding the instruments bellows while pressing buttons or keys, causing valves (pallets) to open, allowing air to flow across strips of brass or steel. For fun and quirky kids, the accordion is the perfect instrument!
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Is my child old enough to start violin?
Somewhere between four and eight years is the best time to begin a violin journey. That’s a wide range, and your child will fit in based upon a number of factors such as the child’s maturity, motor control, available family time and most of all: your level of patience as a parent. This test will help you determine if now is the right time.
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