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Northern California by empowering participants to develop
decision-making skills based upon confidence and intelligence
rather than fear and ignorance. By managing challenges and conflict
with positive and effective solutions, we want participants to be
healthy, happy, safe...and achieve really big things.
- What is MSMAP?
- Respect
- Enriching Experience
- Fighting For Respect? Really?
- Self-Defense & Self-Respect: Harmony, Peace, and Prosperity
- Connecting with the Community
- What we do
- More Information
The Mount Shasta Martial Arts Program is a 501(c)(3) public benefit corporation offering a unique, established training program (since 2001) that enriches lives by providing a dynamic and modern curriculum for taekwondo and yongmudo in a safe, fun learning environment to the residents of Mount Shasta and surrounding communities in Siskiyou County, California.
Participants learn really cool, valuable skills in a state-of-the-art training center. Children excel within our supportive environment: positive attitude and respectful behavior are priorities. Adults and teens enjoy great workouts developing powerful and effective techniques and self-defense strategies.
MSMAP works with local schools and community organizations helping to develop skills for success including Mount Shasta Elementary, Castle Rock Elementary, Sisson Middle, Golden Eagle Charter (MSMAP is an official vendor for GECS), Shady Creek Pre-School, Dunsmuir Community Center, Mount Shasta Recreation & Parks District, and Upward Bound (a national high-school program).
A cornerstone of our program is RESPECT. We first need to learn how to respect ourselves and then we’re able to respect others. The MSMAP program allows children, teens, and adults to celebrate their own uniqueness along with the uniqueness of others through positive, healthy activity. We do not emphasizing “racing” towards getting a black belt; we emphasize developing positive training habits, including social skills, and becoming much healthier and happier individuals. A black belt is a result of these characteristics, not the reason.
The Mount Shasta Martial Arts Program also provides 4- to 6-week self-defense workshops for various groups including teenage students. Contact us for additional information about these helpful workshops.
It is a primary goal of MSMAP that each participant enjoy, and be invigorated by, martial arts training. Our premise is that a physically challenging martial arts training and learning experience is a fun and unique way to learn how to interact with others in more constructive ways. Developing self-restraint, self-confidence, and self-respect enables individuals to be more self-assured and positive through broader awareness and improved assessment skills. These skills are applicable whether the person is in a physically threatening situation or a verbal disagreement at home, school, or work.
How do we know our method works? We know from the feedback of prinicpals, teachers, counselers, and parents in our own community that see the results first-hand. We’re not saying our program works for everyone, but it’s worth a try.
Our program is not about learning how to fight and then going out of our way looking for fights to satisfy some mistaken belief that respect is gained by harming others. Instead, our program is about using intelligence to carefully choose an effective option to resolve conflicts while having lots of healthy fun learning these skills.
It is our underlying belief that martial arts training is a positive component to a healthy, fulfilling lifestyle. Although martial arts is not something that everyone enjoys, we encourage all members of our community to at least learn more and try our program before making a final assessment.
Along with fitness and fun, self-defense is always an important component of training with the Mount Shasta Martial Arts Program. How is self-defense connected with the curriculum of our program?
Martial arts is about competition. And the spirit and skill of competition is the foundation of our daily lives in society especially when confronted with agressors. The origin of martial arts is coping with physical, mental, and emotional aggressors.
Therefore, martial arts, through patience and spiritual refinement (righteousness and courtesy) is self-defense against injustice. And, in addition to striving for physical, mental, and emotional well-being, self-defense provides the basis for self-respect. Respect allows the cultivation of harmony, peace, and prosperity.
MSMAP does not operate in a box. Involvement with schools, organizations, and people throughout the community is an important element to making our vision a reality. MSMAP works with local schools and community organizations helping to develop skills for success. More Info...
MSMAP has several ongoing projects and works on several one-time events to offer unique, useful services to the community.
Open House & Holiday Food Drive (December)
Chuseok (“Korean Thanksgiving”) (September/October)
4th of July Demonstrations & Activity Booth (July)
“Try It At Lunch”
If you’ve made it this far, we encourage you to explore other parts of our website to learn more about what we do and why we do it.
Training Activities
Go to: Taekwondo
Go to: Yongmudo
What We Do
Go to: Frequently Asked Questions
Go to: MSMAP Schedule
Go to: Timeline of Activities
Children
Go to: Children & Martial Arts
Go to: Children & Taekwondo
