Kids With Cancer Learn Martial Arts As A Way To Manage Stress, Pain, AnxietySOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) – The young people who learn martial arts at a studio north of Detroit are not considered students. Their instructors use a different word. Heroes. That’s because the techniques these children learn will be used not to take on an opponent from a rival studio but against the deadly diseases that ravage their young bodies and threaten their lives.