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Martial Arts Champion

Superstar Cory Lutkus is a national karate champion and is only 16! This 3rd degree Black Belt came to the school and wowed everyone with his teaching and performance skills. He is very mature and confident and a masterful teacher who really motivated the students to reach new levels. Watch carefully as he does a back flip and almost kicks the fan! We are grateful to have this young superstar teaching at our school.

Junior Black Belts

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For years we have deliberated the idea of a "child" Black Belt. We used to teach kids the same as adults. We knew that they couldn't learn the same as adults but we tried to ram the material down their throats anyway. Once in a great while we would get a gifted child that could hang in there and get to Black Belt while in the meantime we made it mostly impossible for them to succeed in an adult curriculum. Kids couldn't match adults in technique and should not be expected to. Well it took many years to figure out how to teach them better but I think we finally figured it out. While in college I studied child psychology but had not translated it to our martial arts teaching. Now we have designed a "Junior" Black Belt rank that lets kids that train hard and practice a lot the opportunity to make a rank that is a condensed version of our adult Black Belt. After this promotion they will continue training to learn the remainder of our adult curriculum to b