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Families struggle with decisions about which activities in which to enroll their children and in which activities parents can participate. With martial arts training, they can be one in the same! Families are training together in all styles of traditional martial arts and reap the benefits of learning self-defense, building focus and concentration, and maintaining healthy lifestyles, while spending quality time together as families should. Learning martial arts as a family also gives all members (parents, toddlers, teens, tweens, grandparents) common goals toward which they can work together. This bonding process through martial arts helps break through the barriers to family success that often exist because of conflicting activity schedules or generational communication gaps. We are all one in the martial arts, and families that kick together, stick together! Just ask the Huor family, with brother and sister martial artists Dayna and Brendon, training together and performing forms and weapons routines across the globe.
Some other high-achieving families that train together in martial arts include the famous Gracies who are have grown their once tiny Jiu-Jitsu school in Brazil, to a United States-based international empire. Forty Gracie family members have trained in martial arts since 1925 and the family shows no signs of stopping the tradition. Grandmaster Helio Gracie, known as the "father of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu" died in January 2009. View this tribute to him.
Another family making their mark in martial arts competition is the Han family of El Paso, Texas. Led my patriarch, Master Bae H. Han, children Abraham, Jennifer, Isreal, Stephanie and Heather not only help teach at the family's Tae kwon do and karate school, but they are all world-class champions who compete internationally. This video highlights Abraham Han competing in the World Combat League, where his sister Jennifer also competes.
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