Say No to Bullying with Martial Arts!

 Say No to Bullying with Martial Arts!

written by: Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts

Educational experts have repeatedly tried to show us the nasty side of bullying, but still there are adults - at least some of them - who turn a blind eye on bullying and dismiss it as a problem of childhood. But, if we grasp the damage it can do and has already done, no one can be indifferent to bullying. Recently, a survey by ABC news pointed out that 16 million children bunk school for the fear of bullying, a whopping number for any of us to ignore it at all.

Why it should be Stopped: Saying No to Bullying

Though it might not be visible to parents or teachers, no classroom is free of bullying. Even if children might not confess it, it is extremely important to find out and stop bullying at once. It is today pointed out by psychologists and researchers that:

• Bullying can lead consequences like physical assault, depression and even suicide. 
• It is at once harmful to the victim and the bully and can cause long-lasting impact on both such as antisocial behavior, inability to sustain healthy relationships and social apathy.
• Even those who witness bullying can develop skeptical and negative view of life
• Since whatever makes the victim stand out - body nature, sexual orientation or behavioral pattern - is often dragged into bullying, victims might live their whole lives with a self-effacing notion of himself/herself.
• The major site of bullying these days is online, where the anonymity of the bully could be easily kept and where slander could spread easily to more people. This means the damage done by cyber bullying is often irreversible.

Martial Arts: A Single Solution to Fight Bullying

There might be therapies, counselling and help groups that promise to help the victims. But all of these measures talk about bringing the victim back to life once the damage has been done. Sadly, often this is too late. Martial arts is the only one solution that promises a different solution.

Martial arts is the only remedy that helps both who turn out to be bullies and those who become victims of bullying. Often, bullies are born because of insecure family circumstances, narrow tolerance toward differences or because of an inherent desire to dominate others. Martial arts is a perfect way potential bullies can burn off their frustration, excess energy and the desire to overpower others. Martial arts make potential bullies calmer, broadminded and tolerant individuals who do not feel the need to intimidate others. This means the more children learn martial arts, more the chance that bullying will be prevented.

This is nothing compared to how martial arts help the victims. Martial arts instills courage, self-confidence and assertive nature in potential and actual victims of bullying. Kids who learn martial arts have a greater chance of standing up for themselves or their friends when bullied. It is one way of preventing the damage that could be caused by bullying. In case of those who already have been victimized, martial arts can help them to take the shame not too seriously or lose their strength in the face of challenge. 

As adults, the best you can do to root out bullying from the schools in your neighborhood is to direct your kids and others to learn martial arts. Empowering and positive martial art lessons from quality institutions like Bruce McCorry’s Academy can save the lives and the future of many children.

                     Save your Child today by saying 

                NO TO BULLYING with Martial Arts NOW!

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After School Martial Arts with Bruce McCorry’s

After School Martial Arts with Bruce McCorry’s – Secure, Safe and Successful 

If you are the parent of a school-going child, you will agree that the three words – safe, secure and successful – pretty much sum up what you want your kids to be during their crucial school years. You want them to remain safe from external threats like accidents, violence, bullying and peer pressure. You want them to remain secure and unfazed when faced by fears and challenges. And you want them to be successful in their field of talent. What you don’t know is that there is a single formula to keep your child safe, secure and lead them to success. That is after school martial arts.


Safety, Security and Success: Bruce McCorry’s After School Martial Arts 

Numerous studies have proved the benefits of martial arts over and over. Recently more emphasis is being placed on the benefits of learning martial arts in the afterschool hours. One of the most brilliant after school martial art programs in Massachusetts, the Bruce McCorry’s After School Martial Art Program (AMP) is a testimony to how after school martial arts can transform your child’s life forever.


Success, Unplugged: The success formula for academic and extra-curricular excellence depend on the health, energy level and the physical/mental abilities of children. Through regularized martial arts training and fun activities, Bruce McCorry’s AMP lets your kids to imbibe a number of benefits that will be the foundation of academic and extra-curricular brilliance. Health, immunity, inexhaustible energy and strength are some of them. A refreshing martial art lesson in the afterschool hour boosts memory, invigorates the brain and hones the ability to think. Bruce McCorry’s AMP is for those who seek success is academics, athletics, sports or arts. 


Safety Like Home: According to Afterschool Alliance, the afterschool gap – around 25 unsupervised after school hours that a child spends in a week - are potentially the most dangerous for him/her. Fight Crime, Invest in Kids program states that road crashes, crimes, alcohol, smoking and drug abuse mostly happen in the after school hours. The chances for the home-alones to be victims of accidents are as high as the instances of street violence. As a meritorious afterschool program, the Bruce McCorry’s AMP offers a constructive and safe alternative where children can spend their afterschool hours in a supervised comfortable space. The AMP teaches them the basics of self-defense that will keep them safe even when they are out of their zones of safety like home or school.


Being Secure – Today and Tomorrow: Being secure is not just about being safe from external threats. It is also about feeling unthreatened in the face of failures, challenges and fears. The advantage of Bruce McCorry’s martial arts over any other after school courses is that it hones not just the physical strength or the mental sharpness of your child: it makes him/her emotionally secure and mature. At Bruce McCorry’s, kids learn to tap their own individual strengths and embrace the drawbacks. Through this they learn to master all insecurities from classroom threats like bullying and peer pressure to serious crises later in life.


With a carefully structured syllabus of national recognition, adept instructors, a homey and safe campus and some amazing offers, Bruce McCorry’s Afterschool Program is your child’s sure path to success, safety and security. 

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New Year, New You with Bruce McCorry’s Academy

2017 - New Year, New You with Bruce McCorry’s Academy

Written by: Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts

Few of us can think of the New Year without thinking of a new beginning. 2017 might not be the first New Year in our lives, but it is true for each of us that this year won’t come again. In one year, you might not be living the same life, among the same people. If you have always hoped to transform your life in any way, now is the time to do it. If you have wished to be healthier, stronger, fit or confident; if you have wished to kick your habits, gift a perfect life to your children, live stress-free or take control of your life, this is the time. 2017 is the year of the New You. And perhaps, martial arts might be the shortcut to that.

Mold the New You in the Martial Art Way with Bruce McCorry’s Academy

If there’s anything that can touch and transform all aspects of your life – physical, mental, emotional and the spiritual – it is martial arts. Therefore, if anyone has the ability and the wisdom to mold the New You, it is no one other than a qualified and reliable martial art school.

 Bruce McCorry’s Academy (Peabody MA), the top and long-standing martial art center in Massachusetts is the ideal space that will help you discover the New You. For the past four decades, Bruce McCorry’s Academy has helped thousands of learners to identify their strengths and weaknesses and positively transform themselves with the help of martial arts. Bruce McCorry’s Academy is one of the select martial art centers that offer customized professional care to everybody from a preschooler to a senior.

 Martial Arts for Everybody: Bruce McCorry’s Programs for Health, Fitness and More

Whoever you are and whatever be your life’s goal, you will find one program at Bruce McCorry’s that will transform your life:

* Little Ninjas: For your preschooler (3-6 years), choose the Little Ninjas Program that uses a nuanced curriculum of simple martial arts and activities to boost physical growth, mental and emotional development, social skills and brain development. 

* Juniors: A brilliant foundation course for kids (7-12 years), it is all your child needs to ace through the school years. Children’s martial arts at Bruce McCorry’s is a wild card to academic and extracurricular excellence and a healthy, energetic, stress-free school life. Children can also choose the handy schemes of After-school Martial Arts Program (AMP) or the Summer Program. 

* Teen/Adult: This program is for everybody above 13 years of age who wants to try out martial arts. You can choose your ideal program or combination that caters to your personal reasons for turning to martial arts - as a pastime, for achieving specific goals, or as a lifetime passion. Bruce McCorry’s has an amazing selection of courses ranging from lighter and moderate ones like Tai Chi, Taekwondo, Kung Fu and Cardio Kickboxing to more challenging ones like MMA and XMA. 

* Special Needs: Martial arts is for everybody. The inclusive Special Needs program is for those who face physical and mental challenges who can work wonders with their life given that extra caring hand.

Bruce McCorry’s Martial Arts Center aims at health, fitness, confidence and happiness for everybody. Any choice from the above programs that suits your personal needs, goals, strengths and capabilities is exactly what you need to add that extra spark that would transform your life. Say yes to Bruce McCorry’s Martial Arts to make 2017 count.

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New Year, New You with Martial Arts

New Year, New You with Martial Arts 

Written by: Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Academy

Studies indicate that around half of the Americans welcome the New Year with a New Year resolution. Psychologically, the desire to bring about a total change in one’s lifestyle or behavior is closely linked to the innate wish of humans to constantly improve and advance themselves. Despite a strong intrinsic motivation like this, only 8% of the population – the most perseverant of the lot – actually manages to stick to their pledges. Is it an unreachable goal to aspire for a totally new you?

You will find a million sources that tell you how to do it right. They will ask you to set realistic and achievable goals, go through them one at a year and go easy on yourselves. Ironically, while the whole idea of a New Year resolution is to improve yourself and lead a life without limits, the wisdom of the modern pundits asks you to limit yourself. 

A New You this New Year: Martial Arts to Achieve New Year Resolutions
What if you found something that will instead help you to stick to the many unachievable and unlimited resolutions you want to set for yourself? That magic wand for you is martial arts.

Martial arts have a unique influence on your mind, body and emotional profile. This means that it will help you transform every aspect of your life and become a new you. If we practically relate this to some of the most common New Year goals:

* Martial arts will make you fit and toned and will inspire you to remain so. 

* Martial arts will motivate you to lead a healthier lifestyle. With the right physical activity and brain stimulation, you can keep lifestyle diseases and immunity-related concerns at bay.

* Martial arts can inspire you to kick your bad habits by helping you to reconnect with your center and be in touch with your inner self.

* If your ideal you is a calm, confident person, martial arts is for you. You can achieve mental quiet, emotional balance and self-confidence through martial arts.

However, the key to any lifestyle change is perseverance. The 92% of the lot fail to live up to their New Year goals not because they care less, but simply because they have a less perseverant personality. Martial arts will help you to work on this aspect of your personality. 

Find Your Ideal Self at Bruce McCorry’s Academy
A quality martial art school like Bruce McCorry’s Academy becomes relevant because of the individual and customized martial art experience you get here. The academy knows that the ideal you can be different for each one. Each of you can have different goals and different paths to reach your ideal: losing weight, leading healthier lives, cutting on bad habits, kicking stress or being confident are only some of them. Some of you might want to reconnect with yourselves, some might want to build better relationships, and some might want to focus more on work or family. 

The personal guidance by martial art experts at Bruce McCorry’s Academy will help you to identify your right goals. We help you to choose the right martial art and learn it in in the right way to achieve your New Year goals. For a unique martial art experience and a unique you, choose Bruce McCorry’s Academy.

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Martial Arts: The Perfect Holiday Gift for Kids and Adults

Martial Arts: The Perfect Holiday Gift for Kids and Adults

Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts - Peabody, MA

Gifts make each holiday season special, not just for those who receive them, but also for those who give them. Giving a gift brings the joy and satisfaction of making someone we love happy. But choosing a gift is as much a difficult task as a joyful one. We never want to give anything less than the perfect gift for those whom we really care for. But choosing a perfect, complete gift often sounds impractical. Is there a way to gift your loved ones everything that they need in life at one go? Perhaps there is.

How Martial Arts Makes the Perfect Holiday Gift

If you want to gift your loved ones all that they really need in life, perhaps the ideal holiday gift you should choose is martial arts. For a few years now, getting a gym membership for someone is gaining popularity as a holiday gift. Sure, a gym membership is a convenient short-cut to achieving a fit body. But getting your loved ones an opportunity to learn martial arts means much more than fitness.

* By gifting martial arts, you are giving someone the gift of health and strength. Martial art learners are the least probable to succumb to lifestyle diseases or fall ill with minor illnesses. Martial art is also an efficient way to achieve a strong, assertive physique.

* The gift of fitness is inbuilt in martial arts. Unlike a gym membership, those who gets the chance to learn martial arts will never resent their gift. It is an enjoyable and effective way to achieve a fit and toned body.

* Getting someone a chance to learn martial arts means you are gifting them confidence and courage to face the crises in life. Martial arts will come to their aid at every turn in their life, and will help them to develop capability for self-defense, self-confidence and courage.

* There are many who simply crave for a stress-free and calm life. Martial arts are a way of life that will teach the learner to get out of the loop of stress and enjoy the calm and quiet joys of life even in a fast-paced life. There’s nothing better that could be gifted at the beginning of a new, hopeful year.

* Above all, a gift of martial arts means gifting positive outlook and positive energy. Positivity is something that everyone needs to develop from within. But introducing anyone to the world of martial arts is an excellent way to inspire positivity in someone you care for.

Gift the Best of Martial Arts through Bruce McCorry’s Academy

Given that martial arts is the ideal gift that you can get for your loved ones this Christmas and New Year, it is up to you to get them the best martial arts package out there. Bruce McCorry’s Academy, one of the premier martial art schools in Massachusetts is a perfect choice. For the last four decades, the academy has ruled the martial art scenario steady and strong. With experienced staff, a diverse range of courses and varied schemes under which people of all ages can join, Bruce McCorry’s is the best martial art experience that you can wish for anyone. 

Gifting the best of martial arts to your loved ones is now at your fingertips as the academy offers convenient gift certificates that make this holiday special than ever before. Let this be the holiday that your loved ones will remember forever!

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Kick Peer Pressure with Martial Arts

Kick Peer Pressure with Martial Arts

 written by: Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts

If you ask a child psychologist or educationist about the prime factor that pushes a kid to risky behavior, he/she is sure to name peer pressure. It is clinically shown that by the time children are in the middle school, gradually the influence that parents or adults hold over them diminish. Instead, what their friends and peers think of them becomes important. Parents have to be aware of the pitfalls of peer pressure to help kids through it.

Getting to Know Peer Pressure 

From the age of seven to the late teens, every child goes through a socially vulnerable phase where it becomes important for them to fit in, win social approval from their peers and be popular among them. The core of the peer pressure mentality is the inability to say no to the peers even if the child might know that they are up to potentially risky behavior. Anything that a peer picks up from a movie or an older kid might become a fad and lead your child to the same path, potentially destructive. This might include serious behavioral problems such as cheating, bullying, and trying out smoking, alcohol or drugs. In short, peer pressure can wreck every effort you put into right parenting from the time your child was born.

 Dealing with Peer Pressure through Martial Arts

As parents you can help your child to resist peer pressure in many ways: 
* By developing a comfort zone with your kid where he/she can tell anything to you
* By taking it coolly if you come to know of a peer pressure situation
* By getting to know your kid’s friends
* By trying to tell them the difference between what is cool and what is risky. 

But all this might potentially backfire as this is a phase where kids might be naturally hostile to the parents. The child might cut off completely from you if he/she feels that you are overreacting or stalking them. 

A more effective way would be to put your child in a positive hangout where he/she will get to learn the right path from a source other than family. A great example is a martial art school. Training at a positively oriented martial art school like Bruce McCorry’s Academy is an example of how martial arts can help your child to resist peer pressure in the following concrete ways:

1. Martial art teaches your kid to stand up for what they believe is right and defend themselves from peers and bullies

2. It gives them the courage to say no to negativity and face the consequences 

3. It gives them a positive act to channelize their energy 

4. A martial art school acts as a positive peer group that can counteract the negative peer influence

5. Martial arts gives your child an alternate way to be cool and popular among peers and they no more have to subject themselves to peer pressure to feel belonged

6. Above all, martial arts will teach them that to be truly cool is to be independent of others’ ideas


Parental advise can only last as long as the children step out of their home. But martial arts stay with them when they are actually put through a peer pressure situation. Make the choice and help your child to kick peer pressure with martial arts.

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How to Choose the Best Martial Arts Classes in Your Area

How to Choose the Best Martial Arts Classes in Your Area: Some Tips

Nowadays, tutorials of everything from dance and aerobics to yoga and martial arts reach your home straight through television, DVDs or internet. All of these claim to change your life forever. These might sound appealing to anyone who cares for themselves. But before you fall for such claims, there are a few facts to keep in mind. Firstly, if there's any teachable art that can actually bring about a holistic transformation to your life, it is martial arts: unlike the rest, martial arts alone caters to your body, mind, emotions and intellect all at once.

Secondly, if you think you can learn true martial arts in its essence from a self-instruction tutorial, you couldn't be more wrong. A locally-based, reliable and professional martial art school is your one-way ticket to success in martial arts and life.

Choosing the Best Martial Art School in Your Area: Some Tips

Choosing one from the numerous martial art institutions around you might be a difficult task. Here are some questions you can ask yourself before you pick one of the several available choices in your area:

* How long has a particular school been around? – The longer the legacy of a school, it means that the school has been popular and successful from its beginning and it has changed itself with the times.

* Does the school make the learner a priority?

* How qualified and experienced are the instructors?

* How inclusive are the courses offered at the martial art school?

* Does the school provide a friendly and welcoming atmosphere?

A school that fulfills the most of these expectations is definitely the best in your area.


The Best Martial Arts Lessons in North Shore, MA: Bruce McCorry's Academy

If you are looking for a perfect martial art school in North Shore, MA, you don't have to look further. Bruce McCorry's Academy of Martial Arts in Peabody has a satisfying answer to all these queries.

From 1978, Bruce McCorry's is one of the established martial art schools in Massachusetts, with a legacy that dates back to almost four decades. The academy has an astounding faculty led by Bruce McCorry, an internationally reputed martial art legend. Majority of the instructors in the academy have been in martial arts for ten years or more. Through these years, they have trained thousands of learners and helped them to achieve the goals that matter the most to them.

The learner always comes first for the academy. Every learner gets customized attention from the instructors who know their strengths and weaknesses. They help students to work for the particular goals like health, fitness or confidence they want to succeed in. Bruce McCorry's has one of the most inclusive curriculum that extends over 10 different programs. There are courses for preschoolers; kids from 6 to 12 years; teens, adults and seniors as well as people with special needs. Each program fits in seamlessly with the daily routine of those who want to take it. For instance, schoolgoing kids can take their lessons either as an afterschool program or as a summer program. Every moment, the instructors and the staff pay special regard to ensure that learners have a comfortable, safe and unforgettable experience.

For the thousands who have already experienced Bruce McCorry's martial arts, it has been one decisive choice that made their lives. If you are in lookout for the best out there, do not miss out on Bruce McCorry's!

Give a try today, for free.  Call 978. 535.7878 or go online to www.brucemccorrys.com and signup for a free trial class.  No obligations.