Broadway Family Karate Guiding Principles

Let’s go over the Guiding Principles of our school together.

Our overall objective for our school community is a simple one:  personal development through the martial arts.

We seek to recognize, understand and develop our personal strengths of heart, mind and will through the study and practice of martial arts.

We’re guided in this endeavor by the traditions of our martial art, Taekwondo – one of the Korean forms of karate.

These traditions have been handed down in two special forms that we continue to practice in our lessons today:

• The 6 Tenets of Taekwondo:  Courtesy, Humility, Integrity, Perseverance, Self-Control, and Indomitable Spirit.  A “tenet” is a fundamental principle – a basic truth.

• The precepts of the Student Oath.  We say this together in every lesson:

I pledge to be a champion of freedom and justice.

I pledge to observe the Tenets of Taekwondo.

I pledge to respect my instructors and my fellow students.

I pledge never to misuse Taekwondo. (This means you will only use the skills you learn here to protect yourself or others at need. You’re not going to use your martial arts skills to hurt or frighten other people.)

I pledge to build a more peaceful world.