FAQ

Respect and discipline

Training at Sparta Academy teaches social skills and important core values such as respect, decency, discipline and fair play. Regular training sustainably strengthens self-confidence and contributes positively to the child’s development. Violence prevention is a central part of the training, kickboxing and judo techniques may only be used for self-defense or in sporting competition. The children also transfer our values to everyday life and learn to deal with their urge to move.

Practice makes perfect

The regular training strengthens endurance, strength and condition. We train playfully and slowly approach the techniques. With time, positive changes can be seen and in martial arts you can usually set your own pace well.

In martial arts, the self-confidence of EVERY child is strengthened, the coaches respond individually to the needs of the children and in each training you achieve a sense of achievement. At the Kids Show exam, the kids will take an exam once a year and so far everyone has always passed with flying colors and received a medal and a diploma.

Concentration

No, we don’t practice head banging.

The training always starts with a warm-up phase (stretching, strength, endurance and coordination exercises). Afterwards the technique is worked on in a very controlled way, boxing and kicking in the air (shadow boxing), against punching bags or into pads, which are held by a training partner. Pratzen are like “pillows”, which you can tie around your hand or arm. Concentration is very important here, because you have to work in a controlled, targeted and nice and loose way. Fun must not be neglected in the training, the training is always rounded off with a game.

At the Sparta Kids Academy, you sign up for the training sessions you want to attend. This ensures the quality of the training. If you can only come to the training once a week, you pay less membership fee.

Martial arts is about your own development and not about winning an entire team.

In kickboxing we have 3 children and youth groups with the following divisions:

• Lion group (4-7 years)
• Ninja Group (8-12 years)
• U-18 Kickboxing (13-17 years)
• Kids Judo (4-12 years)

In the booking tool for the trial trainings you can see on which course days there are still places available. Click here.

In Adliswil, the children’s courses take place in parallel on our two training areas. On Saturday we offer a training for the lions and ninjas and on the other training area the parents train with a separate coach.

For hygienic reasons, it is important that everyone brings their own equipment once they have signed up for a course. We will be happy to advise you on site during training. In our Sparta webshop you can also find everything you need: Click here.

• Kids Judo: Judo Gi
• Kids Lions: Boxing Gloves
• Kids Ninjas: Boxing Gloves, Shin Guards
• U-18 Kickboxing: Boxing gloves, shin guards, mouth guard and from level Light Contact Sparring a helmet is mandatory.

The Sparta Academy is a member of the Swiss Kickboxing Association WAKO.

We regularly take part in national and also international tournaments with our youngsters, if you are interested you can contact the coach directly. At the age of 8 to 16 years it is possible to participate in light contact kickboxing tournaments. Light contact kickboxing is now an Olympic sport and is promoted by Youth & Sport Switzerland.