Kids Programs

Youth Global Self Defense System

Master Nolte has combined practical self defense and traditional martial arts training together for a full well rounded martial arts experience. Her program is for all ages 6 -13 years in our Youth Program and there is something for all personalities to enjoy and learn. Some kids are competitive in sports, your child may compete with this system.  Others may want to focus mainly on self-defense, this program is cutting edge on self defense.  We also share leadership principles, fitness, and discipline together to make the Youth Global Self Defense System (GSDS) an activity you want your child involved in and is highly needed in this day and age plus so many incentives to grow! The system includes disciplines from Karate,  Jiu-Jitsu, Modern Arnis, Israeli Krav Maga and Keysi Fight Method. 

Our Youth Global Self Defense System G.S.D.S. is a Black Belt Program. The curriculum is divided into 5 Martial Arts genres on a rotating curriculum in which all train together as a team. This group has the opportunity to rank test at the end of each rotation.  The system is presented in a rotation 4x a year, each time with a new and or more challenging and expectations/curriculum.  The rotations start at the beginning of the year, late spring, summer and fall.  Beginner students may be eligible to rank test 3x in 1 year where as intermediate and advanced students may be eligible to rank test twice in a year. The students are required to keep a 3 ring binder and take notes, keep handouts, keep a copy of rank certificate, and keep a record of there progress.  These notebooks are handy training aides and tools that help move the student forward.  We encourage students to write down goals and work to accomplish them.  We also encourage students to do well in school not just do there best academically but also to be a good student and a good friend and good example to others to Lead by example.

Becoming a Black Belt leader is our goal at University of Sidekicks. GSDS aims to support principled centered living, for example: a block means discipline, a bow means respect and courtesy, attention means self-control, etc. Goal setting, respect, and self-esteem go hand in hand along with learning how to punch, kick, and block. Disciplines of martial arts are fundamentals of life.

Recognition and patches are awarded to students when tasks are completed. Just as an Eagle Scout will earn merit badges for completing tasks and accomplishing goals so do our students.
A Black Belt is a long term goal with many intermediate goals, short term goals and long range goals along the way. Classes meet 2x a week for youth.  An average student across the nation trains 2x a week in a martial art program, we also have online training videos where members have the opportunity to train at home alongside the curriculum. Students who train in the Family class may also attend our Conditioning & Fight Class with an adult giving them the opportunity to train 4x each week. The commitment is up to the individual, naturally the more you attend the greater chance to retain the material and learn even more, each GSDS class is 1hour. The Conditioning & Fight Class is 45 minutes.

Modern Arnis

Modern Arnis is part of our GSDS program for youth, family and adult.
Modern Arnis (Filipino Martial Arts with an emphasis on stick, knife, empty hand, and small circle JiuJitsu) is a large part of our curriculum. In addition we offer special classes, private lessons, seminars, and workshops for those who want to train outside class hours.

The International Modern Arnis Federation was founded by the late Grandmaster Remy Amador Presas. The Modern Arnis practitioner will learn self-discovery and self-control, achieve personal excellence, and gain self-mastery in the face of life’s daily uncertainties, challenges, and opportunities.

Training covers empty-hand self-defense (striking, locking, throwing, etc.) as well as the trademark single and double stick techniques of the Filipino Martial Arts. Other aspects of the art include espada y daga (sword and dagger fighting), sinawali (double stick weaving patterns), and tapi-tapi (locking drills with the stick). In addition to partner drills, Modern Arnis includes the use of anyo (kata), solo forms both with and without the stick. Emphasis is placed on fitting the art in with a student’s previous training (“the art within your art”), smoothly reacting to changing situations in the fight (“the flow”), and countering the opponent’s attempt to counter strikes directed at him (“tapi-tapi”). Practitioners are called arnisadors or Modern Arnis players.

Master Nolte is a Certified IMAF Instructor and Licensed School. Master Nolte trained under the Professor before he passed. Her mentors in Modern Arnis are Master of Tapi-Tapi Dr. Randi Schea, Datu Shishir Inocalla, and Master Earl Tullis. Master Nolte has been training in Modern Arnis since 1999.