Fishkill Karate - Cold Spring, Beacon Martial Arts School’s Character Expert Goes Hollywood

May 10, 2010 - PRLog -- 5 years ago Robert Blum – owner of Just For Kicks Martial Arts in Fishkill, NY made a decision that would take them from running a small martial arts club to a nationally recognized character development center for kids as young as 3, teens and adults. His goal was to literally transform their martial arts school into a World Class Personal Development he was committed to teaching effective self defense, he didn’t want to simply be a fight club. He felt an urgent need to teach kids and adults to fight Personal Personal Development Development the problems and challenges that they will surely face in life.

Things like pressure, drugs, drinking, lack of self confidence, the fear self doubt, skyrocketing obesity the crippling effects of ADD just to name a few. The problems kids face these days are more dangerous than ever before in our history.

To accomplish this, Blum knew that he needed to make a change. He needed a transition from simply being a martial arts club that teaches kicking and punching to a full time character development center. “I knew we needed to educate ourselves.” Says Blum. “We needed a professional in the field of child development and teaching methodology to help us mold a real educational and strong curriculum.” Blum found exactly what they were looking for in another martial arts school located in Massachusetts. This school had their very own full time character development specialist on their staff and was making a massive impact upon their students and their community.

Dr. Robyn Silverman created the program called Powerful Words which she and her husband Jason used at their martial arts school. Blum learned about their program after meeting Mrs. Silverman at a martial arts event. He immediately knew this was the missing piece that he’d been hunting for.

Just For Kicks Martial Arts immediately hired Dr. Robyn to implement the same program into their school. To this day they still license the program that provides a comprehensive character education curriculum to their school every month.
The program was in immediate smash hit for the school. Kids loved it and the parents couldn’t speak highly enough about what their kids were learning and the profound impact it was having on their lives.


It wasn’t long before child advocates in their such as child psychologists and school began recommending parents to bring their children to Just For Kicks.

Dr. Robyn Silverman can be seen on The Tyra Banks show, Fox and Friends, NBC’s LXTV, Fox News Network and coming soon; Nightline. Her book on Body Image, “Good Girls Don’t Get Fat”, will be hitting the bookshelves during an international launch in early October. And she is regularly asked to contribute on other regional and national programs. She has become a sought after expert and much of her celebrity got started thanks to the martial arts.


To contact Robert Blum or Dr. Robyn:

(845) 897-5425 - http://www.justforkicks.biz
info@justforkicks.biz

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Just For Kicks Martial Arts is the leader in kids karate instruction in the Hudson Valley. We serve most of the lower Hudson Valley. This area includes Fishkill, Beacon, Newburgh, Cold Spring, Wappingers Falls & Hopewell Junction New York.