Oom Yung Doe

My 8-​year old son does Oom Yung Doe lessons with Head Instructor Greg, and we are incredibly happy with the lessons each and every time. The lessons emphasize staying focused, showing respect and learning really useful self-​defense/​attack moves. Greg is a fantastic teacher who is patient and kind to the students with just the right amount of discipline and strictness. The students always leave feeling good about themselves and their abilities. We are so glad we found this place and this teacher!

My nine year old son trains at Oom Yung Doe and loves it! We started with Instructor Greg when he was five years old and find the training incredibly helpful to quiet our son’s mind and body. It’s a great workout for him and every time he leaves his session, he has a big smile on his face and declares, «I love martial arts!»
We’ve tried other martial art places and we have found Oom Yung Doe to be the best for my son — I highly recommend them!

Learning martial arts is good as a whole, instructors here are good but the business practices are murky at best. Spent three years at Oom Yung Doe and loved the classes but always felt like I was being pressured into more courses or expensive weekend courses.
While I loved it for quite a few years the longer I was there the worse it got. I was pretty clear with them that I did not need «extra’s» but I saw my fellow classmates paying more and more. It was then I started to do some research and my fears were confirmed.
Things that can be confirmed on Wikipedia, Oom Yung Doe, has renamed itself twice, once after the management was accused of tax evasion by the IRS and then again when rumors of cultist behavior sprung up. Many trainers including Grandmaster Kim himself went to prison for five years due to tax evasion, not exactly a bastion of virtue.
It was pretty obvious to me that remnants of irregular financial issues and cultish behavior were involved when I trained there; trying to get you to sign long term contracts (big red flag), they never write the prices down (GIANT red flag), not paying instructors but giving them free training (small flag), encouraging students to move in together (medium flag), selling mysterious herb bags (red flag), claiming Grandmaster Kim had supernatural powers (RED flag) lots of $ 500 weekend courses (red flag) and best of all questioning everyone while they are lined up at the end of the class about their attendance at $ 500 weekend course (HUGE RED FLAG).
Unfortunately plenty of people there have drunk the Kool-​aid and will beg to differ with me so I recommend doing your own research, you can start by searching with the following search terms Oom Yung Doe, Cult and Tax evasion. Grandmaster Kim’s mug shot is a Hoot!
Not a chance in the world I recommend this place.

My daughter loves going to class… it has helped her over the last year to develop not only external strength but also a natural internal confidence. Instructor Greg has a extraordinary ability to train each child within their own capacity and to motivate them by the group dynamic. as each child feels they contributing to this positive
been wonderful to see the developing respect, discipline and formation of true skill in this martial art. We are very happy with the sense of community and warmth the school has to offer!

We have a very high energy, happy little daughter (5 yrs) with a hard time to concentrate so we thought Martial Arts could be something for her to try. This is a new world for me and my husband so did some research and got Oom Yung Doe recommended. Went there and talked to Greg Martin that was very helpful and understanding. I signed her up for two times a week and now she’s been there almost two months and this place is awesome! Both our daughter and we love it! Instructor Greg is very humble but still use discipline. I love how he teach her respect and try to get her more focused on things plus burns up all that energy in one lesson. I woud say it’s a good balance of training and fun in the classes.
Our daughter absolutely loves it and in the evenings she has little Oom Yung Doe Shows for us and her little brothers. We are very happy we found this place and I think it’s a great way to get her prepared for Kindergarten. All her other activites like gymnastics, swimming, skating has been more playful which can be ok but our daughter needs to learn how to listen and concentrate. This have helped her a lot and we are very happy we got this place recommended to us. Now we want to do the same to other parents.

What I have learned is that I have the ability to change myself, for a long time I was stuck thinking that I had to accept that my life was a certain way and that I couldn’t change it. Oom Yung Doe helped me through the training, I had less stress and I began to see areas of my life that I could make better. It has been a constant and will be an ongoing process, but the instructors have taken time to ensure that I have been improving my physical condition as well as improving my life overall. I recommend this training to everyone, especially anyone that is feeling stuck.