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27 Apr 2022
Women's Self-Defense Basics Saturday May 14 10 am - noon

Women's Self-Defense Basics Class females age 13 - adult Saturday, May 14, 2022 - 10:00 AM to Noon Open to the Public and HTA moms, aunts, grandmas, older sisters, and our female students age 13 and older. How to register: email us (info@hilliardtkd.com) or message us through our Facebook page (Facebook.com/HilliardTKD) let us know names, ages and a contact phone number We only allow bare feet on our martial arts mats, and have cubbies for your socks, shoes, jackets, etc. Bring a water bottle. Everyone will sign a participation form when they arrive (anyone younger than 18 will need a parent to come in long enough to sign for them). Price: make a donation of any amount to ....
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SUMMER 2022 Introductory Special

ALL Summer (2022) for only $279.00 and we provide a uniform! Every visitor schedules an appointment to try one class at no charge. Once your appointment is scheduled, we’ll send you additional details about what time to arrive, what to wear, what to expect and more. This initial trial class helps us see if the visitor can participate safely in our class and also helps the visitor decide if they feel comfortable in our program, are having fun, and enjoy what we teach as well as the way we teach. After you, or your child tries a class, you can head home to talk about the experience and then contact us to sign up for our Introductory Special. Email us ....
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HTA Instrucgtors - Who is Who at HTA

Who is Who at HTA? Ms. Thompson owns Hilliard Taekwondo Academy, is a Master Level Instructor, a 6th Degree Black and the Chief Instructor of the school. Our Level 4 and Level 3 instructors help run classes. Our Level 2 and Level 1 instructors teach small groups and individual students. Instructor Levels are: Level 1 (narrow red ribbon around uniform jacket collar): the first instructor collar earned by passing a written test and demonstrating all the forms from White Belt up to and including 1st Decided Black Belt. Level 2 (wide red ribbon around collar): after 6 months of teaching as a Level 1 an instructor may test to earn their Level 2 collar earned by passing a written test and ....
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Whose goals & dreams are they ... yours or your child's?

Is your #1 goal to have your child to end up on an Olympic podium, with an eye to fame and fortune? We can save you time ... we are not the school for you. Do you want your child to become a more confident, focused, respectful, disciplined, kind person who learns to persevere through challenges while also developing excellent martial arts skills and leadership qualities? You are our kind of family! Our martial arts skill standards are high. Our character development standards are even higher. In any sport, the number of participants who end up on an Olympic podium is very small compared to the number of kids who start in that sport. EVERY child can learn to focus, set & achieve ....
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Current calendar

Watch for updates. Weather can impact our class schedule. Updates are posted on our business Facebook page and typically we are able to change our phone's outgoing message if we need to close due to the weather. If we plan in advance to be closed on a day we would normally be open for classes, there will be a "NO CLASSES" note on those days. Other notations on the calendar are informational. ....
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How to get your kids to listen (and have a happier homelife)!

How to get your kids to listen more and argue less! Thank them for the behaviors you want more of and give less attention to the behaviors you don't want. Kids want attention (well ... don't we all?). When they sit quietly, play nicely together, hang up their jacket, don't make a mess ... do you thank them? When they say "NO!" or argue, do you give them all your attention and try to reason with them, engage in the argument, try to find out what will make them do what you want, threaten, etc. If behaving well doesn't get recognized, but being the class clown or refusing to cooperate brings everything to a halt and wins them all the attention, they will continue to show off, disrupt, ....
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"How do you get kids to behave so quickly!?!"

"How do you get kids to behave so quickly!?!" This is one of the most frequent questions/comments we get from parents when their child tries a class at Hilliard Taekwondo Academy. It's really not magic, and our strategies will work for you at home ... yes, really! First, we understand: - kids really do want to please us - boundaries make kids feel safer - we get more of the behavior we focus on most Second, we are consistent in terms of: - expectations -recognition - consequences Third: - planning ahead helps avoid reacting based on emotions, especially anger - consequences tend to be more fair when applied based on a rule that's broken rather than how we feel in that moment - ....
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Integrity ... doing what's right even when no one (or our kids) may be watching us

We want our kids to be confident, to learn to focus, to have self-control and to demonstrate a character of integrity. Integrity - doing the right thing even when no one is watching - is my favorite of the Taekwondo Tenets. It means: To be trustworthy. To keep your word and do what you said you would. To be honest about finishing chores and doing homework. To own up to mistakes rather than trying to blame others, and accepting consequences. You may wonder: Isn't it normal for kids to tell "little white lies" and to try to avoid getting in trouble? Won't they outgrow it on their own? How do we help our children develop trustworthiness & integrity? As uncomfortable as it can be, we ....
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2021 and our Indomitable Spirit

"When 2020 is behind us ..." "What a year 2020 has been ..." "I'll be so glad when 2020 is over ..." How many times have we said that over the past months... as if we can put 2020 in a cardboard box, slap on a return address label and send it back. Just like many of you, I've found myself looking forward to the end of this year, to slamming the door on 2020 and never looking back. And then it hit me ... turning the last page on the 2020 calendar isn't going to magically erase the challenges 2020 brought with it. When I wake up on the first day of 2021 odds are I'll still be dealing with all that was going on in the world when I went to bed the last night of 2020. I'd been so looking ....
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GRIT plus Guts and Spunk!

GRIT & Guts & Spunk Belt Rank Testing ... results will be emailed today, and we can get so caught up in a strip of fabric and a title on a piece of paper that we forget what it's really about ... developing guts & spunk. While many of our students did pass testing and will get a new strip of fabric and piece of paper with a new belt rank title, there are also those who didn't. It's not because they didn't prepare. It's not because they didn't try. It doesn't mean they aren't a good martial artist. Over my 20 plus years in taekwondo I've seen amazing martial artists not pass a testing and I've seen not-as-amazing students move on to their next belt ....
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Blog | Hilliard Taekwondo Academy

Women's Self-Defense Basics Saturday May 14 10 am - noon

SUMMER 2022 Introductory Special

HTA Instrucgtors - Who is Who at HTA

Whose goals & dreams are they ... yours or your child's?

Current calendar

How to get your kids to listen (and have a happier homelife)!

"How do you get kids to behave so quickly!?!"

Integrity ... doing what's right even when no one (or our kids) may be watching us

2021 and our Indomitable Spirit

GRIT plus Guts and Spunk!

Kids Taekwondo

Teen and Adult Martial Arts

Self Defense and Bully Prevention

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