Do You Want to Strengthen Your Child’s Self-Confidence?
What is the best way to strengthen your children’s self-confidence? Common advice is to integrate the child into a sports team, and sometimes this works.
However, being part of a sports team can actually be a major disservice to your child’s self-confidence.
How?
In a team, children find themselves competing against their peers, and if their teammates perform better than them, it can crush their athletic spirit and desire to keep at it before they even get started.
In comparison, at Vital Martial Arts Academy, kids compete against themselves, and so they can focus on improving without distraction. They gain self-confidence by mastering new moves and reaching new belt levels, entirely thanks to their own hard work.
This works so well that be aware: You will have to buy some new belts for your kid that’s now bursting with confidence!
With Our Kids Martial Arts classes, Your Child Becomes More Proactive While Staying Active And Alert Throughout The Day!
According to the US Department of Health and Human Services exercise guidelines, children and adolescents aged between 6 through 17 years should engage in 60 minutes (1 hour) or more of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity daily.
In reality, less than one-quarter of children fulfill these guidelines. That’s where VMAA comes in!
Our Kids Martial Arts classes help your child to achieve the minimum threshold of staying active and fit. Moreover, Kids Martial Arts improves fitness, stamina and flexibility.
With Our Kids Martial Arts classes, Your Child Becomes More Proactive While Staying Active And Alert Throughout The Day!
According to the US Department of Health and Human Services exercise guidelines, children and adolescents aged between 6 through 17 years should engage in 60 minutes (1 hour) or more of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity daily.
In reality, less than one-quarter of children fulfill these guidelines. That’s where VMAA comes in!
Our Kids Martial Arts classes help your child to achieve the minimum threshold of staying active and fit. Moreover, Kids Martial Arts improves fitness, stamina and flexibility.
If You Can Click A Mouse – You Can Develop Your Kid’s Social Skills!
Is your child’s attention constantly switching between the TV, the PC/Mac, tablet device, and smartphone? Spending hours and hours in front of the screen without human interaction? Do you worry that they won’t develop the necessary social skills?
Welcome to the club. You are not alone. And it is NOT your FAULT. Until now, you just didn’t have the right solution – but here it is!
Martial arts is the perfect way for your child to engage in a group activity! In our classes, kids are asked to teach the other students what they have learned. This requires them to process new information, communicate clearly, and to have empathy for their counterparts.
Kids also learn respect for their elders, instructors, for the other children, and – ultimately important – for THEMSELVES.
Besides these important skills, martial arts classes give children something that is way more important to them (so they CANNOT WAIT to put down their electronic devices for the next couple hours): Having a bunch of FUN with OTHER KIDS!
We Focus 100% On Safety
The fact that a martial arts teacher has a BLACK BELT in the Nth Degree does not tell ANYTHING about his or her ability to teach you or your child properly.
Why?
A lot of martial art teachers out there have never studied fundamentals of physical education included growth and development, psychology, physiology and anatomy and are not aware of the critical difference between children and adults.
For example: children have more sensitive joints and connective tissues. When trained the very same techniques as adults, kids performing punches and kicks can hyper-extend their elbows and knees.
At VMAA, we pay close attention to personal safety according to age and abilities, so kids can learn and have fun, without the risk of injury.
We Focus 100% On Safety
The fact that a martial arts teacher has a BLACK BELT in the Nth Degree does not tell ANYTHING about his or her ability to teach you or your child properly.
Why?
A lot of martial art teachers out there have never studied fundamentals of physical education included growth and development, psychology, physiology and anatomy and are not aware of the critical difference between children and adults.
For example: children have more sensitive joints and connective tissues. When trained the very same techniques as adults, kids performing punches and kicks can hyper-extend their elbows and knees.
At VMAA, we pay close attention to personal safety according to age and abilities, so kids can learn and have fun, without the risk of injury.
WHAT IS WUSHU/MODERN KUNG FU
Wushu (Modern Kung Fu) is a unique mix of Martial Arts, Gymnastics, and Acrobatics, which has recently been included in the 4th Youth Olympic Games 2026, Dakar, Senegal. The movements are based on acrobatics and combat techniques such as kicks, fist blows, grappling, joint locking, and controlled falling, as well as the use of weapons such as swords, cudgels, spears, and more!
Our program will develop not only your child’s physical capabilities, but cultivate higher self-esteem, bolder character, and a stronger will, too. As we know from experience, knowledge and the ability to defend yourself increases self-confidence.
ABOUT OUR FOUNDER
Sifu Vital Yarashevich’s background in martial arts spans over 25 years, with 6 years of experience as a competitor and 20+ as a coach. He holds a master’s degree in Physical Education (with a Martial Arts specialization) from the Belarusian State University of Physical Training. This degree is more than just an honorary accomplishment — it has allowed him to approach coaching as a developmental process that encompasses both the body and mind and to help hundreds of his students grow into champions. In 2022 Sifu Vital has been selected and successfully completed the World high level Wushu coaches program in Shanghai University of Sport.
In addition to his formal education, Sifu Vital also underwent intense coach training in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Italy and China, which included studying with the Beijing Wushu Team under the supervision of Wu Bin, the coach of famed actor and martial artist Jet Li.
Sifu Vital has coached 38 champions of World, Pan-American and European championships. He received multiple Martial Arts awards and was honored as a coach of the highest level of the Republic of Belarus. He is an international judge (EWuF, ICMAC) and has served as the USA National Kung Fu team coach at the 3rd Pan-American Kung Fu Championship 2019 (Lubbock, USA) and at the 4th Pan-American Kungfu Championship 2023 (Markham, Canada).
His Kung Fu / Wushu expertise covers both traditional and contemporary styles, including Shaolin, Long Fist, Southern Fist, Tai Chi, Staff, Straight Sword, Broadsword, Spear, Fan, Double Swords, Chain, Hong Gia, Qigong, Neigong, Drunken Fist, Praying Mantis, Tumbling Fist, and more. In addition to Wushu, he also has extensive experience in Gymnastics and Acrobatics, as well as swimming and track-and-field.
Sifu Vital was inducted into the International Chinese Martial Arts Championship Hall of Fame in 2021 as a Master.
“ WHITE BELT is not a black belt, but it’s a higher rank than, “sitting in a chair, looking at a screen” ”
VMAA’S STORY
