Karate for Kids offers a safe, happy and encouraging environment where your children will learn self defence skills, become ?stranger aware? and learn how to deal with other kids at school as well as developing personal discipline and confidence while getting active, having fun and making new friends.

 

Karate for Kids classes are held in the Lindfiled Community Hall, West Lindfield. This is a central location, at the local West Lindfield shops and a short drive from adjoining suburbs including Chatswood, Lane Cove, Lindfield, Killara, Gordon, Pymble and St Ives.  

 

The Karate for Kids Chief Instructor, Sensei Caroline Manly, designs all the classes and ensures they are a good mix of high energy, fitness and fun. She was taught in the ancient style of Goju Karate and has spent many years adapting the traditional Goju Karate exercises and techniques to suit the young students' of today. She says ?I recognise that all forms of martial arts have something to offer the student so I have to admit I have borrowed the best ideas from taekwondo, judo, aikido, kung fu and even boxing!? She is a good role model with plenty of teaching experience.

 

Even if you don't live close to Lindfield where the classes are held you will find this website informative and useful as a comparison to other schools of Martial Arts. Take advantage of Sensei Caroline's teaching experience and the knowledge she is happy to share with you. 

  

 

 

Parents often don't know what to look for in a school of martial arts - should the classes focus on fitness? discipline? games? self defence? To say a martial arts school only teaches Self Defence is very limiting as learning self defence skills should be seen as developing “life skills” - coping with all the things life throws at you, working with others, building personal discipline, growing in confidence and learning to be the person you were meant to be.  

 

Karate for Kids classes are dynamic and fun and they suit everyone. We never focus on ONE thing but make sure the classes are well rounded, incorporating games, fitness activities, self defence skills and basic techniques.   

 

The instructors at Karate For Kids will show your children how to do the techniques properly.  By joining us your children will be encouraged to learn how to do the skills properly so they won't hurt themselves or each other and they'll learn that karate is for the dojo (training hall), with other karate friends or to be used in self defence.