Karate Charlotte

If you are looking to start Karate in the Charlotte area, this is the place to go! I have two children that take classes here — the instructors offer the perfect combination of respect and discipline while engaging their students to make it fun. I am so impressed by both of my children and can’t believe the strength that they have developed over the past year and a half.

Our 6 year old daughter was a member of Karate Charlotte for about one year. We found the staff to be friendly and personable. She enjoyed going to karate and liked the instuctors. The problem was that in the time she was a member, she learned very little karate. Many classes would entail standing on a line of 7 children waiting for a chance for one kick or punch with the feedback «good job «from a 12 year old. In her sparring sessions with other students she never got any feedback. Ever. Time was wasted on activities that had nothing to do with karate and after paying an additional fee everyone would get promoted to the next level. During this 7 – 10 day period of promotions karate was put on hold. Although Karate Charlotte is a business and you expect their focus to be on making money, the overt focus on long term financial commitments, from their customers, whether agreed to or not, made Karate Charlotte a difficult place to do business with. Do not agree to have automated credit card payments. Nice people, not very good at developing children in the martial arts, and questionable business ethics is how I would sum it up. Our daughter has been a member of another organization for the last three months and we are thrilled with her development. Learned far more in 3 months then at one year at Karate Charlotte.

Our son started here about 4 weeks ago. Since he’s began, we’ve seen improved manners and respect, not to mention the fact that he cannot wait to attend the next session; he simply loves it!
The instructors are great with the children, even those who seem overly excited to be there (the one’s who don’t listen so well). The instructors are patient, and keep the sessions fun, but also manage to stay firm at the same time. In addition to being wonderful with the kids, they even remember each child’s names –even after only seeing them once, which is quite impressive based on the amount of kids they have. The classes are a great size (our son is in the beginners class [he’s 5]), which contains only about 5 – 6 kids per session.
I highly recommend this place. The only reason I didn’t give it 5 stars is simply because I have nothing else to baseline this experience from.