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Amerikick™ is a national martial arts association offering professional martial arts instruction and world champion training to men, women and children of all ages.

Amerikick™ offers a wide variety of programs from Amerikick Tigers and Dragons to Amerikick Kids and Adults. All Amerikick™ programs are age specific and help students, regardless of their ability level, to reach their full potential through the motivational and inspiring classes lead by Amerikick’s professional and highly trained teaching staff.

Today Today Amerikick operates in the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Deleware, Wisconson and Kansas. In 2007 Amerikick merged with Masters Bob and Jill Leiker's World Champion Karate Schools of Kansas and Missouri. Amerikick boasts some of the greatest martial artists in the United States including 6th degree black beltt in JKD, MMA and Escrima, Matthew Augustein, and multi world champions Alex Davydov, Jarrett Leiker and Ross Levine.

Amerikick has been recognized locally and nationally for its outstanding service and family values. Amerikick has been recognized as one of the top marital arts schools in the United States by several Martial Arts organizations and has been rated by the National Black Belt League, the North American Sport Karate League and the World Sport Karate League as one of the top 25 sport karate schools in North America. Many of Amerikick’s instructors and students have appeared on television and news shows for the promotion of the martial arts.

Our Goals

Since 2000, Shore Kick Karate now Amerikick has been providing instruction in Karate and the martial arts in the Egg Harbor Twp., NJ area. We draw students from Pleasantville,Northfield, Linwood,Somers Point, Atlantic City, Brigantime, and Mays Landing. Our school is a black belt school. Our goal is to take every student to black belt level and every students' goal is to earn their black belt. The students will perform every task with black belt excellence.

Children

"We will increase your child's confidence, self esteem, teach them to avoid peer pressure, increase their motor skills, teach them to defend themselves, how to handle bullies, teach them life skills that will last a lifetime and much, much more."

Teen's

It is more challenging than ever to be a teenager in America. Fear and distractions seem to be at an all-time high, and our media-savvy kids are well aware of it. Our program strives to provide our teens with the self-confidence and focus they need to make it in today's world. Shore Kick Karate is a safe and positive environment, providing a fun activity-driven atmosphere where those with common interests can join together in physically rewarding and mentally challenging activities. Teens also develop positive character traits such as perseverance, goal-setting, honor and discipline. They find that our martial arts program is high energy, exciting, and motivating. Students will enjoy the workout as well as the life long friendships that are built exercising and training with people who have similar goals.

Adults

Our adult programs are a great way to relieve stress, get and stay in shape, and learn valuable self defense skills at the same time. Our programs blend a great physical workout with practical real-life self defense techniques and are ideal for both men and women!

Women

With crime on the rise and violent assaults on females up, it pays for today's woman to have first-hand self-defense knowledge. Shore Kick Karate offers a specialized and comprehensive self-defense program so that you can learn the basics quickly and easily. We will teach you how to overcome grabs, punches, kicks and even weapons. Aside from the feeling of confidence that comes from knowing you can protect yourself, the martial arts is a fun and exciting way to stay in shape. The stretching and fitness exercises are an excellent way to lose weight, tone your body, and feel great, as well as reduce tension and stress.

Men

Now, have peace of mind...Now you can learn self-protection in a safe, learning atmosphere with other people just like you - people who want to improve their fitness while learning the valuable skills of self-protection

Older Adults [Baby Boomers]

Martial Arts Defend Against Aging Posted in Aging on Fri March 26, 2004 (HealthDayNews) -- Baby boomers bent on getting back into shape may want to give their love handles a karate chop: A new study finds the martial arts to be safe, effective exercise for 40-50 and 60-somethings.

"If you want to do something that's fun, different and good for self-defense -- and good for long-term self-defense against disease -- do the martial arts," says study author and physical therapist Dr. Peter Douris, of the New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury, N.Y.

His findings appear in the March 25 issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

For most people, the decision to get fit usually means buying a gym membership or shelling out money for expensive home-exercise equipment. But what about alternative methods, such as practicing the martial arts?

In their study, Douris' team examined the overall fitness of 18 individuals between 40 and 60 years of age. Nine of the study participants had been practicing martial arts similar to karate or tae kwon do, for about three years. The other nine participants maintained a more or less "couch potato" lifestyle.

Overall, the martial arts devotees "were much more flexible, had more leg strength, less body fat, better aerobic conditioning and better balance" compared to the sedentary study subjects, Douris reports.

The martial art Practitioners had an average 12 percent less body fat than the non-exercisers, the researchers report. They also seemed much stronger -- while sedentary types could only muster up 37 sit-ups in a row on average, the karate practioners averaged 66 sit-ups before exhaustion set in. The martial arts group also displayed more than double the balancing power of non-exercisers and outperformed the sedentary types when it came to flexibility.

The study did not compare the benefits of the martial arts to that of gym workouts, running or other fitness options. However, Douris estimates that the average soo bahk do class raises students' metabolic level -- a measurement of changes in the metabolic rate -- to about a 10, a level equal to that of jogging.

And he believes that older individuals, especially women, needn't be put off by fears they will be injured trying out karate-like sports. "It's not like ju-jitsu or judo, where you're doing a lot of flips and throws," Douris explains. "There isn't that much of that in karate. You do fall down when you're 'free-sparring,' but there's people in the classes that are 60 years old -- they get right back up. There's plenty of women in these classes, too."

Dr. Douglas McKeag, a sports medicine expert at Indiana University in Indianapolis, believes the martial arts "are a perfectly acceptable way to boost fitness, certainly in middle age it makes a great deal of sense. The sport is capable of delivering the type of stimulus that the body needs to get in shape." But he cautions that, as with any new sport, beginners "have to come at it relatively slowly and intelligently."

Douris, 47, has been practicing martial arts since he was a teenager and says he routinely beats competitors half his age in tournaments. He calls the sport "self-defense against aging."

MMA

This program is a blend of modern martial arts and is ideal for those who want to train in martial arts and learn self-defense and fighting skills but who do not want to learn, memorize and test in the more traditional styles and wear uniforms and belts. Strength conditioning drills along with partners drills, mitt and bag work, will increase your stamina, tone your body and improve your physical fitness in a fun and challenging environment.