YOUTH PROGRAM

The New York City Shaolin Center’s Youth Training Program brings a creative and fun approach to teaching traditional Kung Fu skills to a younger generation. Our goal is to guide students in developing into excellent martial artists and healthy and happy individuals. It is our hope that the training we provide will help our students to become centered, confident, and socially aware agents for positive change in their communities.

The Youth Training Program at the NYCSC is open to students ages 8 to 14 and will be taught by one of NYCSC's most passionate and qualified instructors, senior student Mendel Rabinovitch. The training program is designed for students of all levels and abilities and will take them from the foundational basics all the way through the more advanced Brown Belt levels. Throughout the course of their training, students will have the opportunity to develop skills in all the classical areas of traditional Kung Fu, including empty hand forms, basic weapons training, self-defense techniques, supervised and controlled sparring, chi kung, and meditation.

Learning traditional Shaolin techniques and applications develops our students' balance, coordination, problem solving ability, self control, memory, and gives them an accurate understanding of the mechanics and movement of their own bodies. In order to provide a well balanced study of Chinese martial arts, the youth training program also teaches students the internal Shaolin practices of chi kung and meditation, supplies them with the cultural and historical background of the art, and instructs them on the proper pronunciation and meaning of all the techniques and terms in Mandarin Chinese.

The Shaolin Kung Fu training at the NYCSC helps young adults develop respect for themselves and others, care for their minds and bodies, and develop the tools to approach challenging situations with patience and focus. It is our hope that investing time and effort in our program will have an invaluable positive effect on our students for a lifetime.