Adult Martial Arts


 

About Our School

A T A Martial Arts & Karate for Kids, located at 2901 N. Main Suite A., Decatur IL, 62526 Phone: 217-875-5425  ( Next to CiCi's Pizza )

Family Owned and Operated By: Dennis and Diana Thomas

We offer programs for the entire family: Learn more about them here

Martial Arts
We don't teach fighting nor do we promote it. With the popularity of mixed marital arts ( MMA, UFC and Pride etc ) the general public perception about martial arts has changed. MMA fighters are professional fighters and they train to win fights. We teach martial arts for other reasons. Self Improvement, Fitness, Self - Defense and life skills. We feel it's important to have these values because you use them everyday. Making Decisions that will impact the rest of your life.

Fitness
The techniques we teach are based on the design of your body. For power you can develop the larger, powerful muscles of the torso. The speed of the techniques comes from the fast agile muscles of the arms and legs. Whatever your fitness goals may be - we have the experience to put an effective program together for you. We will help you to get the most from your membership and get the results you are looking for.

Self Defense
Most of the time fighting can be avoided. The number one rule of self Defense is to: Not put yourself in harms way. If you were to walk down a dark ally at 2 a.m. wearing a 3 piece suit, your chances of using self-defense just went up. Hopefully you will never need to defend yourself, but if the occasion ever arrives it's important to be able to protect yourself with confidence by developing your physical and mental strength with martial arts techniques.

Family Activity
We offer programs where the whole family can participate.

Everyone Is Important and Everyone wins
Everyone likes to win, who doesn't? Look at video games: Why do people play video games? Entertainment?, maybe, most play because they like to win. Winning helps them feel important. Video games don't judge you based on age, weight, athleticism etc. Our Teaching concept is similar to this. If a student can only do one push up our job is to inspire them to set and reach a goal of two push-ups.

Effective Goal Orientation Belt Rankings Systems Offer:-

•Clear Progression

•Steps of a ladder

•Students must look forward

•Constant sense of achievement

•Individual (not team) success - you see results of personal effort.
 

Try one of our programs with no cost and no obligation, call 217-875-5425