The “I Can Do It” Attitude Martial Arts Surrey and Delta Can Provide!

The “I Can Do It” Attitude Martial Arts Surrey and Delta Can Provide!
 
In life, an incredible superpower is the idea that one’s life is destined for greatness!  As a new immigrant to Canada more than 50 yrs ago, I had everything going against me.  I had to learn French, English, Italian, and Korean; all at the same time.  I was born with bad vision and serious coordination challenges.  Do you think this stopped me?! NO!  My parents raised me with incredible discipline and focus.  This in turn, gave me a heart that quitting never was an option!  Excellence comes to those who battle challenges and overcome! 

Applying discipline drove me to be more than who I was yesterday.  Step by step, skill sets resulted.  Multiple languages were learned, academics increased, physical skills improved.  Today, we do a great disservice to our kids if we coddle them and try to protect them too much.  My generation of parents let ourselves work out the tough times and we prevailed as a result. 
We feel much greater satisfaction when we overcome momentous challenges and look back at all we accomplished!  Martial arts in Surrey and Delta at the Jong Kim Martial Arts schools help students rediscover the inner power from within!  This perseverance that Taekwondo teaches is worth millions in my opinion!  One of Taekwondo’s main tenets is to garner “indomitable spirit!”  We never let our Surrey martial arts students to give up on themselves!  We push and encourage them beyond their limits.  Only until they overcome each challenge, can they feel a true sense of pride.  Surrey Taekwondo students start to really believe that hard work does pay off! Instructors mentor kids to keep moving forward on new techniques or physical boundaries.  I encourage my students but I also push them further every day.  I ask them do try 1% better everyday in each Surrey Taekwondo class until they are prepared to take on further kicking and punching challenges. 

Students do not realize their potential and how far they really can go in our Surrey Taekwondo school!  They only see what’s in front of them.  I see where they can be!  This is crucial!  I have been in their shoes many moons ago.  Back then, my father and teacher, knew my true potential!  This is why he pushed me beyond my limits.  I remember one day he asked me to kick the heavy bag 1000 times without ceasing.  Of course I lost wind after a few minutes of full forced kicks.  He didn’t let me stop until I completed the task hours later.  To develop my knifehand for board breaking for my first black belt test, he made me knifehand chop a small tree in our backyard.  He said chop 1000 times everyday for 2 weeks.  With blood and callused hand I persevered til the task was completed.  Through these tough times, I never gave up! I didn’t know the word give up!  This is one of the best gifts Taekwondo in Surrey and Delta gave to my character.  Today, I am more than who I was yesteryear! Thank God! 

Delta and Surrey martial arts and taekwondo gave me the attitude of “ I CAN DO IT !”  It’s really true that quitters never win and winners never quit!  Upon digesting this concept into our hearts and minds, can anything prevent success? No!  One Taekwondo master’s motto is I can do, he can do, why not me?!  I tell my young students this before and during challenging Surrey martial arts drills and exercises.  Their tiredness is replaced with a sense of hope that all things are possible to those who never give up! 

I remember in my first few years of university I got really low scores.  I was used to being a straight A student up til grade 12.  I became overwhelmed and I could only see the mountain ahead of me.  I wanted to give up so many times.  Instead, I calmed down and logically took steps to relax and discipline my study schedule into small achievable steps every day.  On a big white board in my room, I laid down my study schedule and assignments hour for hour 1 month ahead of time.  Every day I took a small chunk of assignments and accomplished the task due each day.  My grades went from c+ to B+ and A’s.  During my 3rd year I even scored a perfect 100% score on a final exam.   All of this would not have been possible if I cowered down and gave up.  Instead, I utilized what my dad’s taekwondo life skills he taught me during classes. 

My Surrey Taekwondo skills increased dramatically, my academics increased, and most importantly, my outlook on life became great!  This is all thanks to my father and my master in Taekwondo!  I owe him everything I am today! 

Passing on this great legacy of teaching ideals became paramount as I look forward to seeing new taekwondo students joining my academy every week!  They don’t have the slightest clue in how I already am thinking and preparing their future through martial arts!  My dream isn’t for them to necessarily become a taekwondo world champion; my main goal is for them to champion their life!  To me, I use my Delta and Surrey martial arts program as a conduit to achieve much more!  I develop their minds and hearts and shape it like a potter shapes the clay. 

Just the other day, an extremely and shy girl joined class.  She was extremely timid.  In my mind, I was already contemplating how I was going to develop her confidence through martial arts in Surrey and Delta training center.  I plan to gently encourage her until her self esteem grows.  When she is ready, I will start pushing her with further gentle encouragement.  One day, I hope I can challenge her to extremes.  When gold metals are purified, the result is 99.99% gold!  I plan to make her know her true self worth by building character through physical martial arts challenges.  I mentor by words.  Words can destroy or build up!  I choose the latter.  Being one who has overcome many many challenges in life, I know what it takes to come out tougher, stronger, and more resilient through my dad’s guidance in our family’s Delta and Surrey Martial arts and taekwondo academy. 

Taekwondo is not just kicking and punching.  Our surrey taekwondo is so much more!  It is a safe place where students are surrounded by peers and instructors who really care.  I care where my kids in taekwondo will end up in life!  It matters!  Know that if you encourage and guide someone to greatness, that this is so incredible!  Delta and Surrey Jong Kim Martial Arts changes and mentor kids lives.  I pass on the Kim family legacy to every student to wants to learn Delta and Surrey martial arts!   Remember, you CAN DO IT!  You can achieve greatness!  But you can’t achieve until you dream it, work it, and achieve it! After all, isn’t HOPE so powerful?  I believe HOPE epitomizes a much needed place in the hearts of every Surrey martial arts kid’s heart!  As Martin Luther King Jr said, “Keep Hope Alive!”  He sure had wisdom!

Jong Kim Martial Arts in Surrey - Delta - Newton welcome kids who wish to be more than who they were yesterday!

Jong Kim Martial Arts - Surrey - Taekwondo.
Unit 136 - 7536 130 Street,
Surrey, BC,
V3W 1H8.

604-590-1000

www.JkTkd.ca