Rock Solid Martial Arts

09/12/2026

Hard Truth!

Mind first. Spirit right behind it. Body is where it shows up

09/12/2026

09/12/2026

Rock Solid Martial Arts for Youth

Bellingham, Washington’s #1 Self-Defense Training Center

We train strong, powerful, confident kids on the mat.

We also train the daily habits that carry that strength into the rest of their life.

Every youth student works a Body • Mind • Spirit daily habit system.

It’s how they earn their silver Life Skill stripe, and how we teach them that success is built one day at a time.

BODY — 1 point
Drink 5 cups of water that day and complete the routine:
10 push-ups • 10 sit-ups • 10 burpees • 10 jumping jacks • straddle splits

MIND — 1 point
Complete three of these:
a chore without being reminded • 15 minutes of learning reading • Story of the Month • clean bedroom / bed made • homework done • brush teeth • toys picked up • shoes and coat put away • plus any habit parents wants to add

SPIRIT — 1 point
Complete one of these:
prayer • 3 minutes of breath work • 3 minutes of meditation • 10 minutes of quiet time in nature first thing in the morning • an act of kindness • hug, kiss, and tell your parents you love them

Each day they check Body, Mind, and Spirit on their accountability sheet.

25 points in a month = 1 silver Life Skill stripe on the belt.
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They need 3 silver stripes per belt rank to promote.

That’s the mid-range goal.

Stack those belts and they reach the long-range goal: Black Belt.

This sheet is how we teach kids to show up, for their body, their mind, their spirit, and their family.

Tiny Tigers • Ninja Dragons • Ninja Kenpo Kids • Youth Jiu Jitsu • Teens

2-Lesson Trial: $20 + FREE Rock Solid T-shirt
Call (360) 510-3929 or comment HABITS.

📍 1101 N State St, Suite 107, Bellingham, WA

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09/12/2026

The Sisterhood ‘The Art of Women’s Self-Defense’

Rock Solid Martial Arts is Bellingham’s #1 Self-Defense Training Center

Building strong, powerful, and confident women.

Penny, Kimberly, and Elle teach the Kenpo Scope from Skip Hancock’s Path to Excellence.

Forms can be known as a martial arts dance.

They are fun to perform and beautiful to watch.

They are not Self-Defense.

A Form is a tool.

We use it to build Attitude, Basics, Fitness, and Logic.

That is the nucleus of the art.

That is what you defend yourself with.

Train with us.

Leave with more than a dance.
📍 1101 N State St, Suite 107, Bellingham, WA

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09/11/2026

Skip Hancock is one of my main mentors.

He taught me that attitude is not a mood you hide.

It is the arrangement of your body and your mind toward a situation, a person, or a problem.

It is first.

And other people feel it before you ever speak.

You can tell yourself the anxiety is private.

It isn’t.

A negative attitude, fear that you don’t have the skills to handle what’s in front of you, leaks.

Voice tightens.

Shoulders rise.

Eyes drop or dart.

Words get sharp or disappear.

Posture tells on you.

The other person doesn’t need a confession.

Their nervous system already read yours.

That’s why Skip’s definition matters: anxiety is when you believe you do not have the skills to cope with a challenge.

Confidence is the opposite belief, in yourself, or in someone who has those skills.

Self-confidence is when you believe you have them.
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Flip the attitude and the response flips with it.

A problem-solver attitude is not fake cheer.

It is engagement. It says: I will find the skill I don’t have yet.

That attitude shows up in posture, in tone, in the way you look at a person instead of through them. Most of communication is nonverbal.

Your body is already talking.

Make sure it’s telling the truth you actually want told.

Emotional fitness is the training that makes this possible.

Skip’s master key to emotional fitness is the ability to represent, to present yourself in a way that empowers you instead of leaking fear.

You don’t wait until you feel brave.

You arrange the body and the mind first.

The feeling follows the work.

Control attitude first.

The response will follow.

Train the skills.

Then let your posture, your voice, and your presence do the talking.

That’s how you succeed when it counts, on the mat, in a hard conversation, and in life.

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09/11/2026

Rock Solid Martial Arts for Youth & Teens

Confidence isn’t something someone tells you, you have.

It’s what shows up when your body already knows what to do.

Words can make a kid feel good for a minute.

Competence holds when it actually matters.

That’s why we don’t talk confidence into youth and teens.

We train it in.

High-five the bag.

Hold the position.

Stay in the scramble.

Strike. Close the distance.

When the skill is already in the body, the confidence follows.

That’s how we build strong, powerful, confident youth at Rock Solid Martial Arts.

Youth & Teen programs

Youth
• Tiny Tigers (age 3)
• Ninja Dragons (ages 4–6)
• Ninja Kenpo Kids (ages 7–10
• Youth Jiu Jitsu (ages 4–10)

Pr***en / Teen
• Ninja Kenpo Teens (ages 11–14)
• Teen Jiu Jitsu (ages 11–14)

Anti-bullying and real-world self-defense (not sport-only)

Train the skill.

The confidence follows.

2 trial classes for $20 — includes a free Rock Solid Martial Arts T-shirt.

Rock Solid Martial Arts
1101 N State St, Suite 107
Bellingham, WA

09/11/2026

The Sisterhood ‘The Art of Women’s Self-Defense’

Rock Solid Martial Arts, Bellingham’s #1 Self-Defense Training Center

Building strong, powerful, and confident women.

A weekend seminar can leave you with a few techniques and a full notebook.

That is not nothing.

It is also not enough.

In a real situation you will not have the notebook.

You will not have the partner who attacks the same way twice.

You will not have time to search your memory for “the one they showed at 2:15.”

Most women leave a seminar hoping they can pull those moves up when it counts.

Hope is not a plan.

In The Sisterhood, Penny, Kimberly, and Elle teach from Skip Hancock Path to Excellence , the lineage we follow.

The Kenpo Scope is the WHAT of Self-Defense.

Attitude. Logic. Basics. Fitness.

We also teach a decision cycle: how to solve the problem while you are in it. This is called the Cycle of Considerations.

That is the difference.

We do teach techniques.

We are not against techniques.

We refuse the false idea that the technique is the self-defense.

A technique is a training tool.

It is a model.

We use it so you can recognize a moment.

We use it so you can work a principle.

We use it so Attitude, Logic, Basics, and Fitness have somewhere to live in your body.

Its job is not to be replayed like a script when someone grabs you in a parking lot.

Its job is to teach you how to see, decide, and act.

That is why we take the process as seriously as the physical work.

When you walk out our doors, we do not want you carrying a list of moves you might forget.

We want you able to make the right choice at the right moment, with tools you can actually use.

Strong. Powerful. Confident.

That is what we build here.

📍 Rock Solid Martial Arts
1101 N State St, Suite 107, Bellingham, WA

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09/10/2026

Rock Solid Martial Arts Youth Programs , Bellingham, Washington’s #1 Self-Defense Training Center

We build strong, powerful, and confident youth.

One of the greatest secrets of success is this:

Quitting becomes a habit.

So does finishing.

That’s why we teach kids determined perseverance and an indomitable spirit, not by talking about grit, but by giving them a goal system they can actually live.

Long-range goal: Black Belt
A goal they can see. A date they work toward. The finish line that keeps the fire on when class is hard and life is louder than the mat.

Mid-range goals: Belts
Every three months they can earn the next belt. Each belt is a real step toward Black Belt, close enough to reach, big enough to matter.

Short-range goals: Monthly stripes on the belt
Each month a student can earn:
• a white stripe for the physical skills they’re growing in
• a silver stripe for life skills and daily habits
Those stripes go on the belt. When they’ve earned 3 white stripes and 3 silver stripes, they advance to their mid-range goal , the next belt.

Do that enough times, and they reach the long-range goal: Black Belt.

Kids don’t quit because they’re weak.

They quit because the mountain looks too big.
White and silver stripes give them a win this month.

The next belt proves they’re moving. Black Belt keeps them pointed at something worthy.

That’s how quitting stops being the habit, and finishing becomes one.

Tiny Tigers • Ninja Dragons • Ninja Kenpo Kids • Youth Jiu Jitsu • Teens

2-Lesson Trial: $20 + FREE Rock Solid T-shirt
Call (360) 510-3929 or comment YOUTH.

📍 1101 N State St, Suite 107, Bellingham, WA
Tag a parent who wants their kid to finish what they start.

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09/10/2026

The Sisterhood ‘The Art of Women’s Self-Defense’

Rock Solid Martial Arts, Bellingham’s #1 Self-Defense Training Center

Building strong, powerful, and confident women.

Penny, Kimberly, and Elle teach the Kenpo Scope l, the WHAT of Self-Defense , from Skip Hancock’s Path to Excellence, the lineage we follow.

At the center is Attitude.
Then Logic.
Then Basics.
Then Fitness.
Those four are the nucleus of the art.

Forms, techniques, and sets are ways to train Basics.

They are not a substitute for them.

All Basics come from Form to Function.
The five Master Key Basics are:
Hammer
Whip
Thrust
Launch
Be Neutral

The three Master Key Methods of Ex*****on are:
Hammer
Whip
Thrust

One piece of Logic will replace a thousand Basics.

Basics give you tools.

Logic tells you which tool belongs in this moment.

You will not defend yourself with a technique or forms/sets.

You will defend yourself with Attitude, Logic, Basics, and Fitness.

Why this matters for a woman defending herself:
A real situation is simple and fast.
You need a few things you can actually do.
• You have tools that work under pressure
• You do not freeze waiting for the “right technique”
• You can Hammer, Whip, Thrust, Launch, and Be Neutral
• Form follows function — the move serves the solution
• Skill becomes usable because the body already knows the basics

That is what we train in The Sisterhood.

📍 1101 N State St, Suite 107, Bellingham, WA

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09/09/2026

Check the first comment for the audio/video of Skip Hancock’s teachings on Attitude — what he calls the first 50% of self-defense and fighting.