TOP Martial Arts and Fitness For Life

The Why Behind TOP: Leadership Starts Early

What do you see when you watch this video?

You might see a martial arts student leading warm-ups.

We see a future leader practicing.

At TOP, every student beginning at age 5 gets the opportunity to lead in every class.

For about 20 seconds, the student at the front is responsible for the group. They have to speak loudly and clearly, communicate what they want others to do, manage their time, and have the confidence to lead their peers.

Then they step back and allow someone else to lead.

It may only be 20 seconds.

But imagine what happens when you practice those 20 seconds over and over for years.

As our students advance, we expand those opportunities. Our Advanced students work in classes outside their own, giving them experience communicating with younger students, older students, beginners, adults, instructors, and people with different personalities and experience levels.

Because great leaders don't simply know how to give directions.

They know how to reach people.
They learn when to step forward and take command.
When to listen.
When to follow someone else's lead.
When to encourage.
And when to roll up their sleeves and work right alongside the team.

Those are skills I learned were incredibly important during my years in the business world—and I don't want our students to have to wait until adulthood to begin developing them.

So we start at 5.

Twenty seconds at a time.

Because someday that child at the front of the room may be leading a classroom, a project, a business, a family, a team—or an idea that changes the world around them.

This is the Why Behind TOP.

🥋 Building Tomorrow's Leaders Today.
💙 Helping every child discover their TOP life.

Check out Jace and Luca! Great test by both! Check out their concentration and awareness. It is really difficult to test by yourself. It is even harder when you are testing with another person and need to stay in sync with them. We are really working their self awareness, spatial, focus, timing, concentration, and their peripheral vision. I think they rocked it!

Creating future leaders by practicing leading and speaking in front of peers every single class.

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Congratulation Sabella! It is a joy to me seeing your confidence, focus and determination growing! Keep up the good work!

Congratulations to Chase and Kathryn! What a great job working together! It takes alot of concentration to test and be in sync with each other! Great job!

Sat 6/20 Advanced Testing-What a great weekend of testing! Great job by everyone!!!