Self-Defense and Self-Improvement
Beck Martial Arts teaches the different martial art styles of Hapkido, Taekwondo, and Arnis. Located in Plano Texas, BMA has been in the Dallas / Fort Worth area thoughout its history. In the DFW area, instruction in the various types of punching/kicking martial arts such as Taekwondo (also known as Korean karate, Taekwon-do, Tae Kwon Do, and Tang Soo Do) is easy to find. Grappling arts such as Judo, Jujutsu, and Aikido are less common but there are a few around. Hapkido arts (Hap Ki Do, Hwarangdo, Kuk Sool Won, Han Moo Do, Krav Maga, Viet No Vuem) and Filipino Martial Arts (arnis, kali, eskrima) are very rare. Good instruction is rarer still. Beck Martial Arts strives to provide the best instruction possible in Hapkido, Taekwondo, and Arnis. There is some overlap among the three arts, but each is an excellent standalone martial art and each is best taught separately with respect for its cultural flavor, tradition, and history. The current boom in mixed martial arts is fine technique wise, but focuses totally on physical skills and loses the other benefits of the martial arts. And Hapkido and Arnis have always had a mixture of strikes and grappling and cover every range.
What can I gain from training at Beck Martial Arts?
- Physical skills: You'll learn joint locks, kicks, punches, throws, pressure points, falls, etc. But you will also gain better general health, balance, strength, better flexibility, and a more coordinated body.
- Mental skills: You'll improve your discipline, confidence, respect, self-esteem, courtesy, alertness, focus, even stress management. You will learn to persevere and overcome obstacles.
- Integration skills: You'll learn to put it all together. The mind affects the body, and the body affects the mind. Your physical actions affect your emotions and thoughts, and vice versa. If you put a smile on your face, you feel happier. You will learn to coordinate your thoughts and actions together, so mind and body are as one.
- Self-defense skills: You'll learn not just physical skills but will also improve your alertness, reaction time, awareness, focus of mentality, and commitment -- all of which have tremendous effects on self-defense capabilities.
- Life skills: All the already mentioned skills translate well to success in other areas of life as well. Plus the life skills of how to set and achieve goals, persevere to overcome setbacks, and meet high expectations come out time and again in all the 'secrets of success' books. For children, it often comes out as better grades and better behavior. For adults, it comes out as the confidence to assert yourself, the sensitivity to surroundings to adapt to changing conditions, and the ability to control emotions and react with rational behavior. These skills bring harmony to your life.
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