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Krystal Andrzejewski - I have noticed Improvement with focus and a more positive attitude

"I was looking for a program that would help my son with life skills, discipline and focus. He struggled after we moved and was afraid he wouldn’t make friends. virtual learning wasn’t for him, but we had no choice during the pandemic. After months of searching for something to help his anxieties, I came across Prestige and we have been involved for two months. Since joining, I have noticed Improvement with focus and a more positive attitude. I know this is just the beginning of many more to follow. Shihan teaches in a way that helps children and parents get set up for success. I look forward to the future with my son at prestige!"

Tracy Hart - In the last 6 weeks, we have already noticed a consistent difference in our son's attitude and self confidence

"Our son has been enrolled with Prestige for a little over a month now. We couldn't be more pleased! If you are looking to sign your child up for a karate class where you can just drop them off or sit on the sideline, Prestige may not be for you. Parent involvement is required to assist your child during class. Examples of parent involvement are counting jumping jacks, tracking their progress, holding a kicking paddle, hugging and high-fiving your child. The karate program at Prestige isn't focused solely on executing the moves, it's primary focus is to give your child the tools needed to live a happy, healthy, and successful life. The children work on valuable life skills like how to introduce yourself to someone new, reading social cues, set goals, contributing at home, believing in yourself, etc. I could go on forever. In the last 6 weeks, we have already noticed a consistent difference in our son's attitude and self confidence. If you are considering joining Prestige, DO IT! Shihan is an amazing instructor and life coach. If you put in the effort, you will be extremely pleased. I also highly recommend joining the Leadership Training to maximize your child's outcome. Prestige also offers virtual classes."

Kristine Burnham - My child has thrived in everything he does ever since we have joined

"Amazing program and Shihan. This place has great energy and spirit. Shihan is great with the kids and parents. My child has thrived in everything he does ever since we have joined. He looks forward to going to class. My child has gone through a lot within the last year and this has helped him so much. He has just bloomed and it makes me smile to see him so happy. I would recommend this class to anyone!!"

Brittany Onstead - Shihan is amazing and this program has helped so much with my sons confidence reviewed Prestige Martial Arts —
5
via Facebook

"Love Prestige Martial Arts! My son has been here over a year. Shihan is amazing and this program has helped so much with my sons confidence, leadership skills and key assets like goal setting. It’s more than just martial arts it teaches them life skills that are essential to success even into adulthood that are not being taught anywhere else in their daily schedules. Highly recommend!"

Dennys Pimenta reviewed Prestige Martial Arts —
5
via Facebook

"There are several reasons why parents should look for this program, the discipline, respect, the mental or body development but the one I like the most is the confidence Denny develop on his students/ninjas due to his disciplined fun way to teach them. My daughter who used to have confidence issues at school is developing in several different aspects of her life"

Heidi Marini reviewed Prestige Martial Arts —
5
via Facebook

"Prestige Martial Arts is a positive atmosphere where your child learns skills that will help them through and into their adult life. My Son is learning how to be a leader, have confidence, work with others, and many more! I love watching him grow and learn every week!"

Jeff Lido

"My Daughter has been attending class with Shihan for four years. She has transformed from a shy, quiet, unsure of herself girl to a strong, confident, expressive ninja who stands up in class to profess her skills and is always the first to raise her hand with the loudest voice. The skills and lessons have been invaluable. This isn't your run of the mill karate class. Not everyone gets a trophy, they have to earn their awards through hard work and effort. Shihan has their best interest at heart and makes them improve with proper discipline."

Tiffany Dempsey

"I highly recommend Prestige Martial Arts. As a mom of a 6 year old boy struggling in many areas from self respect, confidence, communication to handeling his emotions it was very hard to find a program that worked on all these areas of life in one setting. I was introduced to Prestige Parent videos over a year ago!!! we are just now just finishing a two week trial. I regret not going a year ago. The facility is clean, welcoming, and you feel like a family from day one. The instructor is amazing with the kids and very experienced as well. My absolute favorite part of this program is the parent involvement. Many programs we have found focused more on one or the other, parent or child not both!!! The instructor not only supports your child but you as a parent as well!"

Kristy Cox

"My 7 year old has been attending classes at Prestige Martial Arts for about a year and a half. In that time, I have seen such an improvement in him. He loves Shihan and doesn’t even realize the important life skills he is learning. I love the classes so much that I recently enrolled my 3 year old as well. How many 3 year olds listen, say yes ma’am, and do things because they have a “Yes I Can” attitude? Mine does and it’s because of these classes. Shihan is wonderful with all ages and abilities of the kids and teaches valuable lessons to the parents as well. I honestly cannot say enough about this program!!!"

Michael Dyja

"We love this program! Our son Logan is an only child, so we wanted an after school activity that he can interact with kids his age ( age 6 at the time). SDMA turned out to be the perfect choice. Shihan not only teaches karate, but has developed a program that teaches the kids what it means and takes to be an outstanding person. Logan is now 10 and is such a considerate young man. His teachers and principal at school always comment what a great kid he is, and what a leader he is also. I owe all that to SDMA. Shihan is constantly improving the program. If something works good, he'll work hard to make great. THANKS SHIHAN FOR ALL YOU DO!!!"

Ken Arnott

"LOVE LOVE LOVE this studio the instructor is not only helpful with my child he also is chalk full of knowledge that helps me out in tough times when im at my witts end and don't know what to do about my childs behavior. I recommend this place to everyone i am so pleased to see how far my Gavin has came since starting here. THANK YOU Shihan"

Stephanie Wright

"Love this program! This is NOT your typical karate program, but so much more! The kids learn life skills such as self esteem, respect, and discipline (for example, a challenge this month is for ninjas to make their bed every day). My daughter started this program shortly after turning three years old, and I have seen tremendous increases in her self-confidence, attention span, respect for teachers at school, manners, and overall behavior (in addition to physical development). Not a day goes by that her teachers don’t compliment her on her behavior, and I believe a large part of that is owed to this program. The instructor is incredibly enthusiastic and dedicated to student success. It’s not very often that you get to see someone who has truly found his “calling” in life, but I believe Shihan is one of those people."

Grant Faulkner

"Absolutely the best thing we've ever done for our son and for our family. In only a couple months we saw huge positive changes in our son's self-esteem, his confidence, his fitness, and his overall attitude. He’s always excited to come to class, and his growing pride and sense of accomplishment is a joy to see. More than just a karate school, through SDMA our son (and our family) is learning valuable life skills. Thanks Shihan Strecker!"

Nicole West reviewed Prestige Martial Arts —
5
via Facebook

"My son Joseph loves Karate with Shihan! We tried another karate schools that was closer in location, but he kept asking for Shihan. In comparison, I was most impressed with the curriculum and organization at Skillz Dynamic Martial Arts, and I'm so glad we made the decision to return. The kids are all known by name and addressed individually throughout each class. Joseph loves it, and I have seen growth in him both as a karate student and as a young boy who displays confidence and shows courtesy and respect!"

Amanda Russell reviewed Prestige Martial Arts —
5
via Facebook

"My son has been going here since September and he absolutely LOVES IT!! I enjoy watching him learn new things and cant wait to see him advance in his belt colors!! I am so glad i choose to go here for him rather than another place!"

Annamarie Macandog reviewed Prestige Martial Arts —
5
via Facebook

"One of the most rewarding decisions we've made in our daughter's development has been her enrollment at Denny Strecker's Karate. She has developed so many skills in just one year. The instructors are wonderful and the skills they teach reach well beyond martial arts, including reinforcing skills to be a good student, good friend, and good person."

Donald Kolosick reviewed Prestige Martial Arts —
5
via Facebook

"Nearly five years at the dojo now. My son, 12 year old who is autistic has really progressed under Shihan Strecker. He is doing things I would not have thought he could do. He's still very shy but his confidence has grown so much. I highly recommend this kid friendly, family oriented dojo."

Christopher Biddle reviewed Prestige Martial Arts —
5
via Facebook

"Absolutely love what I'm seeing both our daughters achieve in such a short time, and really like how the courses focus on life skills as well as physical skills"

Scott Reno reviewed Prestige Martial Arts —
5
via Facebook

"We're only 6 weeks in and we could not be happier w/ the progress. Our near 4 year old is not the best listener, but we are already seeing changes. Still a work in progress to be sure, but we're on our way!"

Lisa Sandor reviewed Prestige Martial Arts —
5
via Facebook

"Great place for karate and kickboxing. Instructor is awesome and looks forward to seeing you succeed"

Denise DeGolyer reviewed Prestige Martial Arts —
5
via Facebook

"Denny Strecker's teaches kids not only karate, but how to become leaders. My son has been going there for over a year and the change in his self confidence and attitude has been life changing!"

David Kaye reviewed Prestige Martial Arts —
5
via Facebook

"Caring, detailed, and family oriented are 3 terms that come to mind when thinking about this facility. You definitely don't want to pass up this school if you want to learn self defense, confidence, respect, or just get a great workout."

Sk Heinzman reviewed Prestige Martial Arts —
5
via Facebook

"We signed up my son last year when he was 5 to help him build confidence. Since then his more confident in everything and made improvements in all areas. Now, his twin sister has joined along with him after seeing how fun the class were. I love the fact that the classes focus on life skills but making it a blast for the kids!"

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Life Skills School

Good evening parents, we just got done with classes and I wanted to talk to you real quick and shoot this video.

We had a great thing happen today. A gentleman walked in before classes started to ask about our program, and during the conversation, I came across a perfect explanation of what it is we do and what makes Prestige Martial Arts different. So I wanted to shoot this video to make sure that I told you as well and not just this one gentleman.

Prestige Martial Arts is a Life Skills school, and we use martial arts as our tool to teach Life Skills. What that means is there are a lot of programs all over the United States that preach or talk about teaching life skills. Some of them are martial arts, some of them are outside martial arts. Usually what happens is they do whatever thing they’re doing, (let’s say martial arts) They teach a martial arts class, they teach the blocks, the punches, and the kicks and then they sit down for a minute or two and they talk about the life skill and they say whoo-hoo, great job. We are teaching life skills.

We don’t do that. Everything we do in a class incorporates the life skill that we are working on so that the kids can begin to understand and use that life skill in their everyday life. For example, this cycle, we’re talking about discipline. So everything we did in class tonight, revolved around discipline.

What is a discipline push up?
What is a disciplined horse?
How do you show discipline when you are doing your board breaking?
How do you use discipline when you are learning your form?

So all of the techniques and things that martial arts use is then taken and put into the life skill itself. So discipline is infused throughout the entire class. Then we start having the kids incorporate it on their own. Tonight it showed me a level two disciplines horse stance. Now show me a level five. Now show me a level seven. Now show me a level 10! The kids get it, the kids understand, now they are walking out the door with an understanding of how to be better at discipline.

It’s not lip service. It’s not just a story that we tell and then hopes the kids get it or a byproduct of whatever it is we’re doing, and then when they show better discipline, we take credit for it and say, Wow, martial arts is awesome. My goal is to actually deliver it so that your child is a walking example of each of our life skills.

So if you have any questions about that, or if you wonder how it works anymore, please feel free. Give me a call. I would love to answer all of your questions so that you can understand, We are not a karate school. We are a life skills school that uses martial arts to be able to teach life skills. I couldn’t care less about a sidekick. Your child is not going to use a sidekick throughout the day, but you know what? They’re going to use their discipline every day, all the time. So that is my goal is to be able to give your child the tools to be successful in their everyday life. So again, if you have any questions, feel free to give me a call. I love talking to parents. I love answering questions and giving you an idea of how the program can help your child.