Focus & self-control
Practice patience, listening, and purposeful movement.
Junior karate
Small steps. Lifelong foundations.
An encouraging place for children to practice focus, courtesy, coordination, and confidence.
Explore your first lesson
More than learning a technique.
Confidence & courtesy
Build confident body language while showing respect for others.
Movement & friendship
Develop balance and coordination in a supportive learning community.
What you’ll practice.
The junior curriculum includes safety strategy, conflict resolution, self-control, patience, and courtesy alongside physical karate skills. The student creeds express the school’s emphasis on respect, discipline, and constructive defensive use of skills.
Finding your class
We begin with private introductory lessons and help you find the right class after enrollment. Please contact the dojo to arrange your first visit.
View dojo hours →A personal beginning.
01 · Connect
A personal introduction
Talk with the dojo about your goals and arrange your first private introductory lesson.
Plan your introduction02 · Learn
Start with the basics
Begin with individual black-belt instruction. Your introductory lessons last about 15–25 minutes.
What to expect03 · Keep growing
Find your class
Review the basics with your instructor and discuss the right beginner class and current tuition.
View enrollment & tuitionLet’s find the right fit.
Please note
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Junior Karate Training
We teach our students to be safe by using a common-sense approach to protection.
This means understanding self-defense techniques, self-defense strategy, and conflict resolution techniques. We also teach body language concepts to our students that are designed to give your child a confident appearance that communicates, “I am a nice person”, and, importantly, “I am not a person that can be taken advantage of.”
Some of the most important skills we teach are the ATTITUDE SKILLS of the martial arts.
Through our karate program students learn self-control, perseverance, courtesy, respect, and patience. What is powerful about our program is that it doesn’t just teach our students about these skills and values. They experience these important skills in our classroom and they are then taught how to apply these skills and values in their daily lives while away from the school! Academically, socially, and within the home, our students are empowered to perform at higher levels, AND THEY DO!
Our program also develops fundamental athletic skills such as coordination, flexibility, and body balance.
We develop skills that are required for baseball, soccer, tennis, and golf…but usually aren’t taught very well. They are simply expected. If you have them, you do well. But if you don’t, you’re left behind. But the fact is, those skills are teachable. And when we develop them in our classroom, it sends our students back to the ball fields and back to gym class—not only more capable, but more confident in that environment.
And, what makes it all work? What holds all these parts together? THE FACT THAT IT’S SO MUCH FUN!
Our teachers are wonderful people. Ours is a friendship-based system. Hundreds of children in our community love the martial arts at Buzz Durkin’s Karate School, your child will too!
Our Student Creeds
Training at our school is based on three principles of training known as the Student Creeds. The Student Creeds are goals that all students strive to attain and live by.
Student Creed #1
Remembering that the martial arts begin and end with respect, I intend to develop myself in a positive manner and avoid anything that would reduce my mental growth or physical health.
Student Creed #2
I intend to develop self-discipline in order to bring out the best in myself and others.
Student Creed #3
I intend to use what I learn in class constructively and defensively, to help myself and my fellow man, and never to be abusive or offensive.