Martial Arts Tricking
Martial Arts Tricking, known simply as tricking, is the training discipline that combines martial arts kicks with flips and twists from gymnastics, as well as many dance moves and styles from break dancing. It aims to achieve an aesthetic display of different combinations of “tricks”. Tricking practitioners are commonly referred to as trickers or tricksters, and can come from various martial arts backgrounds.
Team XSAMA students learn in a progression system starting with basic kicks and tumbling and move up to elite level tricks that combine skills taught in our martial arts classes and tumbling classes. Examples of some of these tricks are:
Tornado Kicks
540’s
900's
Sideswipe
Gainers
Flashkicks
Butterfly Twists
Corkscrews
And much more
Classes are open to students Orange Belt and above and aged 6 and older.
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Rising Star Elites and Xtreme Starz
Ages 6 and older
The Rising Star Elites (ages 6 - 7) and Xtreme Starz (ages 7 and older) students enjoy a high energy and fast pace program. Students learn the best there is to offer in modern Taekwondo and Parkour.
Team XSAMA students have specially designed classes in:
Taekwondo
Gymnastics Floor Tumbling
Parkour
Ground Fighting
Martial Arts Tricking
Break Dancing / Hip Hop Dance
Character Development
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Leadership/
Character Development
- The Team XSAMA Leadership program is a character development program teaching our students the necessary skills to achieve success in life. This class is taught in a sit down environment that includes the students input and participation. This fun class involves the students acting out situations, giving examples from their lives, working in teams to achieve a goal and so much more. Our Saturday Leadership class is our highest attendance class of each week.
Team XSAMA Leadership Students "The Defenders" will develop the following skills:
Resilience and empowering attitude towards failure
The understanding of Failure = Success
Powerful, creative, unique and eager to take on tasks they previously perceived as difficult or even impossible
Increased time management skills and better ability to function under time pressure.
Self-motivation and eagerness to take on new and harder tasks
Public speaking skills and the confidence to speak in front of large audiences.
How to be a team leader and the importance of being part of a team.
The ability to set goals and the process and steps it take to reach those goals
Being a positive influence for those around them
The techniques to combat Bullying and recognize the actions need to stop others from being Bullied.
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Rising Starz
Ages 4.5 - 6
Our Rising Starz (RS) classes offers plenty of fun for this age group in a high energy format, promoting balance, focus, listening and motor skills, coordination and friendship. All done in small learning classes.
The instructors are caring and loving and understand what it takes to teach this age group to ensure their daily success.
Rising Starz (RS) classes are 30 minutes in length, allowing us take advantage of the best portion of this age groups' limited attention span. Rising Starz (RS) classes see the best of what our program has to offer including Parkour, Taekwondo, Gymnastics Floor Tumbling and Character Development, while maintaining a consistent 1st class of the day schedule for this age group.
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Black Belt Ground Fighting
The Team XSAMA Ground Fight program differs from traditional Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Traditional Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is primarily a ground-fighting art where both fighters are on the mat performing a series of techniques. There is a heavy emphasis on positional strategy, which is about which fighter is on top. Positions are stable situations, from which a large variety of techniques are available to both fighters.
At Team XSAMA we teach our Ground Fighting program using a "Top-Down" and "Bottom - Up" teaching method. This method will teach the student how to defend themselves from the ground until they are able to get back up to their feet and get a safe distance away from their attacker.
Our students learn the basics of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Judo so they would be able to defend themselves from the ground if the situation were to arise. Our students will combine the teaching techniques (KARATE AND TAEKWONDO) taught in the CORE martial arts class and implement them into the GROUND FIGHTING program creating a well rounded fighter.
Specific techniques taught are designed either to improve one’s position, finish the fight with a submission or escape to the standing.
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Hip Hop Dance
What is Hip Hop Dance?
Hip hop dance is a style of street dance form that evolved from hip hop culture and hip hop music. It borrows elements from a number of different styles like African dance, tap, and ballet. Hip hop dance began as a freestyle dance performed in the streets by dance crews, mostly to hip hop music. Today, hip hop dance may involve choreography, along with various points of improvisation, especially during dance battles or freestyle competitions. Some classic hip hop dance moves include the running man, the humpty dance, and the cabbage patch, and techniques often involve body isolations and other unique movements, like popping, locking, and krumping.
4 Characteristics of Hip Hop Dance
Hip hop dance is a recognizable style with a few defining characteristics, which include:
1. High energy: Hip hop music provides a heavy beat for quick-paced movements requiring high endurance and stamina.
2. Complex footwork: Hip hop dance puts emphasis on the footwork, pulling off special moves that often look effortless. Choreographers will often push the boundaries of their routines, finding new and innovative ways to create pictures with their body.
3. Versatility: Hip hop dance can be performed at a venue with friends or alone in a studio. It contains a diverse range of movements that can be fitting for any age or level of experience.
4. Attitude: Hip hop dance reflects the attitude of the music that is being danced to, which is often full of confidence, boldness, and irreverence.
5 Hip Hop Dance Styles
Hip hop dance contains a variety of elements borrowed from other dance genres. As such, there are different styles of hip hop dance that exist:
1. Freestyle: Freestyle hip hop dancers improvise their movements in the moment, using their skills and techniques to create a flow of dance that requires little to no choreography. Experienced freestylers already have an idea of certain movements that work well together, which can make it easier to spontaneously create fluid movements.
2. Krumping: This African American form of dance is driven by pure emotion and force. Krumping is defined by energetic and powerful movements like chest bumping, often expressing strong feelings in a lyrical way.
3. Popping: This dance style is marked by a quick contraction of muscles to create a jerking effect in the dancer’s body. Nearly every part of the body can be popped, which can create a surreal and robotic effect.
4. Locking: In this style of hip hop dance, the dancer quickly and frequently moves their body and freezes it in place. It is similar to popping, but holding positions longer than with popping.
5. Breakdancing: Breakdancing is very closely associated with hip hop, though it’s often seen as its own distinct style of dance. This acrobatic style popularized by B-boys and B-girls is marked by complicated floor-work, often involving spinning and contorting.
* Information provided from Masterclass.com