Asking good questions at the Independent Karate School

At the Independent Karate School, children can start taking classes at the age of 5.  Beginners of all ages are very important at the Independent Karate School, because they represent the future.  Five-year-olds are especially fun, because . . . well, they have a lot of questions.  Here are just a few of the questions that five-year-olds have asked IKS instructors recently:

How old are you?

Did you get married yet?

Do you know how to do karate?

This last question was addressed to our headmaster, who was wearing his eighth-degree black belt at the time.  Now, it is possible to philosophize about whether anyone ever really "knows how to do karate."  It is more of a process of lifelong learning.  But our headmaster understands five-year-olds very well, and he knows how to answer a straightforward question with a straightforward answer.  With only a momentary pause, he answered, "Yes . . . yes, I do know how." 

Which he does.  But perhaps more importantly to us parents, he knows how to teach the art of self-defense to others, too. 

Would you like your children to learn how to defend themselves, whether they are 5 or 15?  Come in for a visit and see what we're all about!  Classes in Merrimack are held every Tuesday and Thursday evening at 6 pm, at the VFW near the Common Man.