Bully Busters

Our Bully Busters program is for children 5-12.  We will instill confidence and self-esteem in your child – we will teach them how and when to use their voice to diffuse a potential bully without turning to physical violence.  We reinforce positive values and good character, which creates kinder children and later, kinder adults.  Your child will learn several self-defense techniques and understand how and when to escalate.  The outcome will be a child who is able to defend themselves against bullies without turning into one.

Prodigy Bully Busters will assist your child in becoming more aware of their surroundings, how to read queues and distinguish between “joking” or  harmless play and “bullying” or harassment.  They will learn that bullies like “soft targets” – those kids who will tolerate the abuse.  With Bully Busters, your child will be armed with the tools needed to stand up for themselves and stand their ground.

 It goes without saying that teaching a child techniques without teaching them when to use it would be destructive, to say the least.  They will learn to:

  1. Avoid the fight at all costs.

  2. Defend yourself if you are attached.

  3. If verbally attacked, first try to negotiate.  If that does not work, tell someone.  If all else fails – use the techniques they have mastered to submit the bully until they can either negotiate, an adult comes, or they can safely remove themselves from the situation.

    With many other martial arts programs for children, kids are led to believe they can use the techniques they have learned in class with their classmates and apply the same techniques in the same way in encounter with an adult “bad guy”.  Unfortunately, in the world that we live in, they will need to learn a different set of skills to use in those situations.  They won’t, necessarily, be able to tackle an adult and wait for someone to help.

Prodigy Martial Arts will provide tools to help your child become more aware of their surroundings, recognize “bad” adult behavior and how to flee if necessary, from the “bad guys”.