By: Haylie Smart | Category: Health & Fitness | Issue: January 2023
Martial Arts Academy, Owasso, provides a structured environment to help students develop self-confidence, discipline and focus. Their training helps parents raise confident leaders and adults reach their true potential.
By: Haylie Smart | Category: Health & Fitness | Issue: December 2022
Martial Arts Academy, Owasso, helps students develop self-confidence, discipline and focus.
By: Kathy Smith | Category: Recreation/Leisure | Issue: March 2022
If there was a playbook for setting your children up for success it would include providing them with the best opportunities to develop their character and potential. Many parents choose martial arts as one method to help raise confident leaders. Martial arts programs have long been successful for instilling habits to maximize physical, mental and social skills. Children, adults and families have benefited from these kinds of programs and proven that it’s never too early – or - too late to learn to become the most exceptional person we were meant to be.
By: Kathy Smith | Category: Recreation/Leisure | Issue: February 2022
If there was a playbook for setting your children up for success it would include providing them with the best opportunities to develop their character and potential. Many parents choose martial arts as one method to help raise confident leaders. Martial arts programs have long been successful for instilling habits to maximize physical, mental and social skills. Children, adults and families have benefited from these kinds of programs and proven that it’s never too early – or - too late to learn to become the most exceptional person we were meant to be.
By: Macy Goodnight | Category: Education | Issue: October 2019
Martial arts combines physical strength and agility with mental focus and discipline for people of all ages, sizes and experience levels. This creates a unique and rewarding opportunity for family bonding. Chris Velez, owner of Martial Arts Academy - Family Training Center in Owasso is on a mission to help parents raise confident leaders and adults to reach their true potential through their family-oriented programs in a supportive, uplifting environment. Learn more about their philosophy and how martial arts could benefit your family in the October 2019 edition of VALUES News Magazine and at ValueNews.com.
By: Tom Fink | Category: Health & Fitness | Issue: May 2019
Martial Arts Academy of Owasso offers classes open to all ages teaching self-defense, discipline and respect. Summer break is the perfect opportunity to try out these classes with the whole family for a unique bonding and learning experience. Build confidence, learn focus and discipline and develop new skills as you train both your mind and body. Learn more about Martial Arts Academy's program in the May 2019 edition of VALUES News Magazine and at ValueNews.com.
By: Duane Blankenship | Category: Health & Fitness | Issue: December 2018
The mission of Martial Arts Academy is to help raise confident leaders and for adults to reach their true potential through martial arts training.
By: Lorrie Ward | Category: Health & Fitness | Issue: August 2018
At Martial Arts Academy in Owasso, owner and instructor Chris Velez believes that when a student signs up for Martial Arts instruction, the “end in mind” should involve far more than just a mastery of the martial arts or an ability to defend oneself. He believes a person should take away self-confidence and discipline—two attributes which are integral to traveling successfully down any avenue in life.
By: Duane Blankenship | Category: Health & Fitness | Issue: August 2017
Chris Velez, Owner of Martial Arts Academy in Tulsa and Owasso, says, “Rebuilding confidence is crucial and it starts the moment a child shows up in class. Everyone here knows what it is like to have to overcome those feelings which leads to a very safe, unintimidating, encouraging environment that allows a student to just try.”
By: Chris Beach | Category: Health & Fitness | Issue: May 2017
When it comes to finding an optometrist, not all practices are created equal. Recognized throughout the state of Oklahoma as a leader in vision health care, Primary Eye Care Associates has been serving Owasso and the surrounding community for 50 years, spanning generations of families.
By: Mary Bransford | Category: Health & Fitness | Issue: May 2016
Black Belt is the international symbol of an advanced martial artist and an exciting goal in your personal martial arts training program. Satisfaction for your perseverance is the reward that makes it worth the challenging journey.
By: Deanna Rebro | Category: Health & Fitness | Issue: September 2015
Within the world of clicking for an answer and multi-tasking, getting plugged in has a totally different meaning at Martial Arts Academy; it means “focus.” Very simply, use your brain and concentrate on the task at hand in the moment.
By: Carol Beck-Round | Category: Education | Issue: May 2015
For Martial Arts Academy owner and Senior Chief Instructor Chris Velez, instilling self-discipline in his students is part of the journey to success.
By: Deanna Rebro | Category: Other | Issue: December 2014
It’s tough. It’s highly regimented, with no tolerance for nonsense. It requires absolute focus and perseverance. So why do so many kids do martial arts?
By: Lorrie Ward | Category: Health & Fitness | Issue: September 2014
Martial arts has been in existence since ancient times, but in the world of modern day sports training, this training is relatively young.
By: Christopher Davis | Category: Other | Issue: May 2014
Since opening Martial Arts Academy in 2003, owner and Senior Chief Instructor Chris Velez has earned a reputation for facilitating a program that is fun and effective for all ages.
By: Christopher Davis | Category: Health & Fitness | Issue: January 2014
Martial Arts Academy first opened in Owasso in 2003.
By: Lorrie Ward | Category: Other | Issue: November 2012
Chris Velez of Martial Arts Academy is a big believer in consistency: “Consistency is what will get you the black belt,” he says.
By: Lorrie Ward | Category: Health & Fitness | Issue: May 2012
It has often been said that success breeds success. But this statement is missing something: what bred that success in the first place?
By: Lorrie Ward Jackson | Category: Other | Issue: November 2011
Often when people think of signing their children or themselves up for martial arts classes, they think of the most extreme cases where self-defense might be needed, suc…
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