Team Courage
Team Courage is made up of young men and women that you see every day. They are the kids on the playground, the cheerleader, the football player, the mother putting groceries in the car, or the dad that coaches the soccer team. They are all different. They all have different abilities and personalities like we all do. They come together for one purpose. To reach people using the martial arts and make a difference in their lives. If team Courage reaches one person and helps them to find the courage to make the right life decisions then all the work is worth it!!!
Team courage goes into the schools, to special events, in to churches, or to any number of civic minded organizations, putting on free demonstrations to the public. Team Courage teaches about the courage to make the right decisions in our lives. The only true power we have is the power of choice. We can not control all that happens to us. We can only control how we chose to deal with what happens. We all have two types of problems in our lives. We have the problems that others and outside forces bring on to us and the problems we bring on our selves with our own choices. If we truly examine most problems we find one of our choices somewhere in the problem.
They give examples of accountability for our own choices, of taking responsibility for our own actions and not blaming others for our choices. Team Courage demonstrates positive peer pressure and teaches children to have the courage to stand up to negative peer pressure. Anyone can stand up to an enemy but it takes true courage to stand up to your friends. We all know the power of negative peer pressure and how powerful it is. If negative peer pressure can get is to make choices we know are wrong but we make them anyway, then Positive peer pressure is even more powerful because it leads to decisions we know are the right thing to do.
Team courage members are not professional athletes, but students at Kreters Tae Kwon Do and Karate for Kids. Team courage members are not only the top ten students in the school but any student. They are any student who wants to attend and has the courage to face their fears and try to make a difference in the world they live in. Studies have shown the deepest fears most people have is performing in front of a group of people. How many of us like speaking in front of a large group of people? How about trying to break a board or brick and risk failure in front of hundreds of people.
Team courage members get no belt for this risk. They get no money, or external rewards for this risk. They only get a chance to touch lives in a positive way using the martial art they love. They get messages to the people that watch the demonstrations that they are not alone when they have the courage to make the right decisions. We all know that some times we have to do the right thing even if we feel like we are doing it alone. The decisions to do the right thing can make you feel more alone then being in outer space. Team Courage lets people know they are not alone in the decisions to say no to drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, say no to violence and prejudice. That is why they are my Heros