AFC716 stands for “Alternative Fitness Center of WNY”. We are a fitness based Martial Arts School. We value a strong community where everyone can be themselves while training. We strive to be a school where everyone is taught where they are, not where they think they should be.
Core Values
1. Leadership
- To know where you are in your learning process, and start there.
- To always improve.
- To always get better, stronger or more skilled.
- To help others do the same.
2. Integrity/Honesty
- To know what the right thing to do is, or at least try to find what the right thing to do is.
- Always choosing to do what’s right even when no one is looking.
- “How we do one thing, is how we do everything!“
3. Accountability/Responsibility
- For Every action, there is a reaction.
- Whether good, bad, or neutral.
- Accept responsibility for all of your choices/actions.
- Learn from each choice/action.
- Repeat the good things.
- Improve the neutral things.
- Don’t repeat the bad things.
- Use these as a lesson to learn, and move forward.
- Own up to everything.
- Don’t wait for someone else to call it out.
- When you make a mistake:
- Claim it.
- Don’t hide it!
- Apologize if necessary.
- Help figure out a solution, or get help finding the solution.
- Use it as a teaching tool.
- So others don’t repeat it.
- Claim it.
Our Mission
A Life Long Pursuit of Excellence.
We will always keep trying to be better and to help those who come after us to be better than us.
We value a strong community where everyone can be themselves while practicing the martial arts.
Who We Are
Shifu Daniel Cimino & Shifu Kate Cimino
Instructors
