When parents sign their children up for martial arts classes very often they’re looking for a healthy activity that will also teach their kids respect…

Self-discipline helps us do the work we need to do. It helps us get up in the morning…

Courage, Aristotle said, is the most important virtue because it guarantees the others…

A key benefit of karate is the way it helps children improve their focus. Learning new techniques, mastering complicated fight sequences and sparring in a ring all require children to pay attention and keep paying attention, in a way they find really fun and rewarding. It’s a classic win-win situation.

You are only ever as good as your word, and that’s why honesty is a critical part of our character development program.

At Douvris Martial Arts we believe that with the right approach to teaching karate, everyone can increase their confidence…

Excellence is a word that sounds like a destination. But it’s not. It’s a process, an evolution…

One of the important aspects of our character development program at Douvris Martial Arts is that it not only teaches students how to become responsible…

Some concepts are easy to explain with words. Humility isn’t really one of them. We can talk about it – and we do, as part of our character development program – but in order to help people understand humility, we have to make sure they can experience it.

Respect is one of the words most often associated with karate, and for a good reason. We care about it a great deal.

As Sensei Cody Diesbourg explains, if it weren’t for service and people paying it forward, we wouldn’t have martial arts today.

We think it so important that we made “Perseverance” one of our 12 recurring “Words of the month”.