The Combat Academy Children's Martial Arts - Chesterfield

🥷 NINJAS, YOU’VE EARNED IT! 🥷🍎🍌

Our Ninjas finishing their sessions and grabbing a well-deserved snack from our Member Appreciation Week snack table! 😋

After all that hard work, you’ve definitely earned a little treat! 💪🔥

Keep smashing it, Ninjas! 🥷❤️

🥋 WARMING UP… WITHOUT EVEN REALISING IT! ❤️

Our Little Ninjas love a fun warm-up game before we get stuck into our kickboxing! 🙌

For young children, exercise doesn’t need to feel like exercise. When they’re running, jumping, dodging, crawling and laughing, they’re moving their bodies, raising their heart rate and getting warmed up, but to them, they’re simply playing and having fun! 🤩

That’s why we use lots of games and fun exercises in our Little Ninjas classes. They’re developing coordination, balance, agility, listening skills and body awareness while getting themselves ready for their kickboxing training.

They don’t need to think, “I’m exercising.”

They just know…

I’m moving. I’m playing. I’m having FUN! ❤️🥋

And that’s exactly how we want our Little Ninjas to feel about being active. 👏

🥋❤️ LOOK AT THAT FOCUS! ❤️🥋

Our Little Ninjas sat giving their coach their FULL attention, and we love to see it! 👏

At this age, martial arts is about so much more than learning kicks and punches. We’re helping our Little Ninjas develop important life skills they can take into school, home and everything they do.

👂 Listening when someone is speaking
🎯 Staying focused on instructions
🙋 Learning to wait their turn
🧠 Remembering what they’ve been asked to do
🥋 Showing respect and self discipline

These skills don’t develop overnight. We practise them every single time they step onto the mats.

Sometimes the biggest wins in a Little Ninjas class aren’t the techniques they learn, but seeing them sit, listen, concentrate and give their coach their full attention. ❤️

Great work, Little Ninjas! 👏🥋

🥋 READY STANCE. READY TO LEARN. 🥋

Our Little Ninjas know that being focused is a skill — and just like kicking, punching and blocking, it gets better with practice. 👊

Standing in ready stance, listening to their coach and staying focused might seem simple, but these are important skills they’re developing every single session.

The more they practise focusing, the better they become at it — not just in martial arts, but in school, at home and in everyday life. 🧠💪

Keep learning. Keep listening. Keep improving. 🥋🔥

Spin kicks, flying knees and scissor snaps… the juniors had it ALL today! 🔥🥋

A brilliant session packed with energy, hard work and some seriously impressive techniques. Everyone pushed themselves and kept working on their skills from start to finish! 💪

Keep putting in the work and watch how quickly you improve! 👊🔥

Working on our squats today… but Toby had other plans when he spotted the camera 😂😂

While the parents were training, these lot made the most of it by sitting together, chatting, and getting to know each other. 👊
One of the best things about martial arts is the friendships that are made both on and off the mats. 🥋💙

Today our Little Ninjas finished class a little differently! 😁

Instead of our usual recap, we all sat in a circle and each Ninja told us something they had learned during today's session. It was brilliant to see them speaking up, listening to each other, and celebrating what they'd achieved.

Building confidence isn't just about kicks and punches it's about finding your voice too! 🥋💙