One instructor, small groups, and an hour at a time. Everything below runs at the Sykesville Visitor’s Center Activity Room in Sykesville — come and watch one before you decide.
A program of child-appropriate Japanese karate — the school’s own words for it. Children learn to stand still, to listen, to bow, and to hit a target properly. Minimum age is 8, and classes run an hour, twice a week. Rank here follows real improvement rather than a schedule, and there is no contract to sign.
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The main class, and it is genuinely all-ages: children train beside adults, and adults past fifty train beside teenagers. The style is Shorinjiryu, a traditional Japanese karate. Classes are small — as one student puts it, “small, allowing for individualized attention, and instruction.”
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One hour on Saturday mornings for students the instructor has invited — their own schedule marks it “invitation only.” It is not something you sign up for. Everyone else is welcome in the all-ages class at 10:30 am.
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Shares the late Thursday hour with karate and runs depending on interest, so call first if this is what you are coming for. One long-time student describes the aikido here as very close to the Japanese jujitsu he had studied years before.
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Longer-term students also work with the bo and the jo, the long and short Japanese staffs. In the words of a student of six years, it is “something you don’t often find taught.” Ask the instructor when you are ready for it.
See it on the scheduleThe more of your family trains, the less each of you pays. Four or more is negotiable — talk to the instructor.
Schedule & tuition in fullMinimum student age is 8 years old. All students practice at the discretion of the instructor.
Tell us the age and we’ll tell you which hour to come to. First class is free.
