May 2024 - Tri-Star Martial Arts Academy

I have been at Tri-Star since the summer of 5th grade so I want to say 5 almost 6 years I’m not to certain but it’s enough to know it has changed my life.

I started martial arts because I needed to get active in some sort of way. We looked at almost everything until landing on martial arts and specially we saw Tri-Star and after reading the amazing reviews we knew we had to give it a try, so I did the trial fell in love and knew this is something I want to do and still in love with it since then.

Tri-Star has forever changed my life, and it’s the small things not just the big things it has helped me with, some examples being my manners, my respect in general, my speaking capability and most importantly how it got me out my comfort zone to the point where I really don’t feel awkward in any life scenarios, also something huge that Tri-Star has helped me with are interviews experiencing a interview at the age of 12 has really helped me now at 15 go through interviews and job experiences with no worry at all.

My ultimate goal with martial arts is to be able what I have learned from it and put it out into something good, whether it be making a difference for the community or even taking my physical training experiences and using it to progress more in the martial arts world with taking what I have learned from Tri-Star and being able to implement into whatever training I pursue and how I use it to show the effect it has had on me.

My goal with school is to do as good as possible so that I have a greater chance to pursue my dream job and get into my dream college. My school provides many opportunities for me to get to that point so if I just stay on track and in line I will achieve the dream I’ve had set for a while now.

What I want to do when I grow up has been a question that I was always thinking about but i wasn’t to sure about it till this year actually where when looking at jobs and other opportunities that the school has shown us. I came to the conclusion after finding out about kankakee career center where they have a fire and emt training, and that’s when I knew for sure I want to do something in the fire field, so my goal is to become a fire fighter for a few years but more then that become and fire and arson investigator where I get more involved with the actual conclusion of how the fire was started. Now I just have to make sure I achieve this goal of mine.

One the most important and meaningful things I have learned from not only just one instructor but really all of them is to just have fun with what you do. Now that doesn’t come with always messing around but it’s knowing when it’s time to be strict and to lock in. That right there has always stuck with me with anything I do in life, from my job to school to hanging with friends your always going to have fun with it but there will be times it has to be taken seriously. I will forever be grateful for that lesson.

Want to be the next to be spotlighted in our newsletter?