Martial Arts Birthdays

I must say, I love doing a martial arts birthday party at Shinka.

Its just so much martial arts fun packed into a few hours!

I mean, last time we had about 50 kids running around all at the same time.  It was awesome!  (This was definitely a time where having such a huge martial arts school came in handy!!)

One thing that I've noticed, is that there tends to be the same basic personality types at all the parties, which really... REALLY drives home the importance of kids taking martial arts in the first place.

There's the "class clown" type, which is about 1-3 kids -- there's the "hard to pay attention" kids, which are about 5%, and then there's the really awesome, super intelligent kids which are about 2%, and the rest, which generally do what the majority is doing.

Invariably, of that top 2% which stand out so strongly as leaders, most of the time, they've either taken martial arts before, or are in something similar, like fencing or kendo.

I think that's why I love the really big martial arts parties the best.  They have the same number of "class clowns" but there's a huge majority of kids who are there to have fun, eat cake, learn some self defense tips and play some games.

Happy birthday Shinka kids!  We'll see you next year :-)

Sensei Ono, Shinka Martial Arts.