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At Cooper’s New England Martial Arts, we offer Olympic style Taekwondo.  Aside from learning practical self-defense in a fun and safe environment, students will learn safety strategies that help them identify and avoid unsafe situations.  Students will improve their coordination, balance, flexibility and stamina while at the same time learning self defense.  In addition to the physical benefits, students will also learn the values like respect, self-discipline, positive mental attitude, confidence, teamwork and to help each other.  Martial Art training is a life long and life changing, positive experience.
 
Taekwondo is one of the most systematic and scientific Korean traditional martial arts, that teaches more than physical fighting skills.  It is a discipline that shows ways to enhancing our spirit and life through training our body and mind.  Taekwondo has become an Olympic sport.  Taekwondo literally means "The way of hand and foot" as "Tae" means foot, and "Kwon" means hand, and "Do" means way of. 
 
Check out our class descriptions below or click here for a full Schedule
Sparring Techniques (Mondays)
Our Sparring Tech class focuses around kicking drills, footwork and body positioning.  Working on the body positions, execution of kicks incorporated with timing and footwork to help students learn the application of these techniques.  Students are required to wear their mandatory sparring safety gears while working these techniques with a partner but focusing on the drills.  This class is beneficial for students who wants to improve their sparring techniques.
Conditioning  (Tuesdays)

Our "Conditioning" classes are designed to help increase stamina and endurance while at the same conditioning our body.  Students will work in stations to build strength working the entire body.  In a competition, one of the key factor in winning is stamina.  While it is very important to work on our kicking techniques, stamina is key in a competition and non-competitive students can also gain benefits of stamina training to burn calories to loose weight or to maintain at a peak fitness level.

Sparring (Wednesdays)

Sparring Classes allows student to take all of the techniques and drills that they have learned and apply them with their training partner in a light sparring match.  This is when students can work their mind, body and learn about their reaction time based on a moving target.  This is not a drill!  Students will learn about timing, techniques, reaction time and etc.

Aside from Taekwondo sparring, we also participate in Karate stlyle point sparring and will incorporate in our training for those who are competing.
Kicking Drills (Thursdays)

Our Kicking Drill class focuses on some basic as well as advance kicking drills.  Through this class, students will improve their kicking techniques, increase flexibility and obtain excellent fitness level.  Various different types of kicking techniques including High kicks, powerful push kicks, light snap kicks, multiple kicks, aero kicks, with various footwork are practiced.  Kicking drills may consist of air kicks, kicking the bags, kicking the focus paddles, kicking the body shield or kicking each other using protective gears.  Excellent way to burn calories. 

Poomsae & Self Defense (Fridays)

Poomsae classes is where we practice our forms/Kata.  Poomsae is required for grading.  Students must understand the movements, what it represents and focus on each movements.  During Poomsae class, students will practice their forms with the class and will continue to repeat the pattern.  In some cases we may incorporate some light kicking drills that are focused on proper execution of a kick, working our balance, leg control and flexibility that is required for poomsae.  Depending on the size of the classes , there will be some self defense drills such as take downs.


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