Build Strength and Community with Judo!

Our academy believes Judo is more than just a martial art—it’s a pathway to personal growth and community. Our Judo classes for both adults and kids provide an opportunity to develop strength, discipline, and self-defense skills while connecting with like-minded individuals. We offer classes tailored to different experience levels, ensuring everyone can progress at a comfortable pace, whether you’re just starting out or looking to sharpen your techniques. Join us and experience the camaraderie and challenge that Judo brings to your life!

Sign up today to learn more about our Judo courses!

What Can Judo Do For Me?

Judo can improve your strength, balance, and coordination while teaching you effective self-defense techniques. Beyond physical benefits, it sharpens mental focus, discipline, and resilience. Whether you’re looking to get fit, gain confidence, or learn powerful grappling skills, Judo provides a full-body workout and an opportunity to grow both mentally and physically. Plus, it’s a fun way to challenge yourself, build community, and enhance your overall well-being.

Build Strength and Community with Judo!

Our academy believes Judo is more than just a martial art—it’s a pathway to personal growth and community. Our Judo classes for both adults and kids provide an opportunity to develop strength, discipline, and self-defense skills while connecting with like-minded individuals. We offer classes tailored to different experience levels, ensuring everyone can progress at a comfortable pace, whether you’re just starting out or looking to sharpen your techniques. Join us and experience the camaraderie and challenge that Judo brings to your life!

Sign up at the form below to learn more about our Adult BJJ courses!

What Can Judo Do For Me?

Judo can improve your strength, balance, and coordination while teaching you effective self-defense techniques. Beyond physical benefits, it sharpens mental focus, discipline, and resilience. Whether you’re looking to get fit, gain confidence, or learn powerful grappling skills, Judo provides a full-body workout and an opportunity to grow both mentally and physically. Plus, it’s a fun way to challenge yourself, build community, and enhance your overall well-being.

How Does Our Judo Program Work?

ADULT BASICS

  • All levels of judo are welcome to join us for this class. Please know that since we are a new program that we will focus on the fundamentals and grow together from the introduction of judo as both sport and art.
  • Each class will consist of break fall (ukemi)
  • Growing in the ground fighting techniques (ne-waza) which consists of pins, escapes, chokes and armbars
  • Learning the specialty of judo takedowns (Nage-waza)
  • Judo has a culture and moral code that will reflect in the teaching and expected to be respected by each participant as we learn together. When the majority of this class progresses, beginners will always be welcome and the current student will always get the opportunity to keep expanding their knowledge and demonstrate what they know in the practice of free practice (randori).

ADULT INTERMEDIATE

This class is designed to move into exploration techniques from different possibilities of grips and movement. It’s meant to help the judoka to be able to make their game more personalized and dynamic as we take the techniques and begin combining our throws to the ground and learn understanding of gripping and defensive counters to judo. This is not an advanced class but all levels of judo are welcome to come and learn with an expectation that the student is able to take a break fall comfortably and continue in practice.

KIDS CLASS

This class is open to ages 5-12 years old.

Each class is setup in a fun and challenging way to teach the sport/ art of judo. Kids will learn discipline while still having fun. Each class will focus on taking fall so we can learn to get back up uninjured.

  • We will learn skills of balance and control of our own body movements that benefit not only for judo but for other sports as well.
  • We will learn how to wrestle in a judo way both on the ground and standing up that don’t have the use of striking one another.
  • Kids will progress at their own pace and our environment allows kids to enjoy the class without feeling slowed down or too fast by others.
  • Classes are designed to change up the activity every 10 minutes to make a fast pace and engaging.
  • Our hope is to build up the kids to be both strong and kind and progress the sport of judo in which they can be respectful and competitive both on and off the mat in a healthy way.
  • Kids can progress in belt ranking that coukd one day lead to a judo black belt honored in every country that judo is practiced.

How Does Our Judo Program Work?

Our Adult Judo program is split into two groups:

ADULT BASICS

  • All levels of judo are welcome to join us for this class. Please know that since we are a new program that we will focus on the fundamentals and grow together from the introduction of judo as both sport and art.
  • Each class will consist of break fall (ukemi)
  • Growing in the ground fighting techniques (ne-waza) which consists of pins, escapes, chokes and armbars
  • Learning the specialty of judo takedowns (Nage-waza)
  • Judo has a culture and moral code that will reflect in the teaching and expected to be respected by each participant as we learn together. When the majority of this class progresses, beginners will always be welcome and the current student will always get the opportunity to keep expanding their knowledge and demonstrate what they know in the practice of free practice (randori).

ADULT INTERMEDIATE

This class is designed to move into exploration techniques from different possibilities of grips and movement. It’s meant to help the judoka to be able to make their game more personalized and dynamic as we take the techniques and begin combining our throws to the ground and learn understanding of gripping and defensive counters to judo. This is not an advanced class but all levels of judo are welcome to come and learn with an expectation that the student is able to take a break fall comfortably and continue in practice.

KIDS CLASS

This class is open to ages 5-12 years old.

Each class is setup in a fun and challenging way to teach the sport/ art of judo. Kids will learn discipline while still having fun. Each class will focus on taking fall so we can learn to get back up uninjured.

  • We will learn skills of balance and control of our own body movements that benefit not only for judo but for other sports as well.
  • We will learn how to wrestle in a judo way both on the ground and standing up that don’t have the use of striking one another.
  • Kids will progress at their own pace and our environment allows kids to enjoy the class without feeling slowed down or too fast by others.
  • Classes are designed to change up the activity every 10 minutes to make a fast pace and engaging.
  • Our hope is to build up the kids to be both strong and kind and progress the sport of judo in which they can be respectful and competitive both on and off the mat in a healthy way.
  • Kids can progress in belt ranking that coukd one day lead to a judo black belt honored in every country that judo is practiced.

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