So why do most people think Martial Arts is for kids?

Thank Hollywood for that one. Prior to the movie "The Karate Kid" there were very few kids in martial arts in this country. When the movie came out and was a huge success it created a huge surge of parents who wanted their children to train in Martial arts. The martial arts schools of the day just weren't ready for it. They had never taught kids and didn't know how. They scrambled to figure it out. Unfortunately the pressures of catering to this new market caused many schools to adapt in ways that compromised their arts.

Back in this martial arts gold rush, our school chose not to jump on the bandwagon. We avoided all the trendy methods that were being used to attract kids into the studios and opted to keep our art pure. After the dust settled we finally decided to develop our childrens programs in 1995. By waiting and observing how this boom of the 70's and 80's, affected other arts we had a pretty good idea of what we didn't want to happen to ours. We set out to design our children's program with one of our primary goals being that we would not compromise the art in any way. Many others found that simplifying and compromising the quality of the art was the fastest way to financial gain. We decided to do it another way. Over the last decade we have developed our children's programs with this goal in mind and we're very happy with our results. We now are very successful at developing highly skilled martial artists at relatively young ages.