Best Martial Arts Schools in Alpharetta

Atlanta Choong-Sil Kwan Tae Kwon Do serves the Suwanee area, providing a positive pro-social environment that stresses traditional martial arts values. Atlanta Choong-Sil Kwan offers kids, teens, and adults martial arts programs, after-school classes, and a fitness kickboxing course. Four children’s courses are available for ages 3-4, 5-6, 7-9, and 10-14; discipline, confidence, and respect are the dojo's key teaching points. Kids develop better coordination, physical fitness mental strength, and social skills. Adult classes help build self-defense techniques, confidence and other physical, social and mental benefits, and Atlanta Choong-Sil Kwan also puts on its Primal 21-Day Challenge that helps participants re-wire their genes through proper nutrition, managing sleep and creating daily rituals that promote a healthy and happy mind and body.

Cumming Martial Arts became a part of the North Atlanta community in 2010 with the premise of empowering kids and teens to defend themselves but has evolved into a family-like facility that helps students of all ages achieve goals to better themselves physically and mentally. Cumming offers a Tiny Tigers program for 3- to 6-year-olds, designed to introduce martial arts techniques and self-control. The Young Dragons 7- to 12-year-old class builds foundations of respect, principles, positive philosophy, character development, and technique. Its Yondo jujitsu program for teens and adults intertwine strengths of four martial arts styles to achieve fitness, self-discipline, and practical self-defense from standing and ground positions. Its facility includes two-inch foam-matted flooring and Master heavy uppercut bags, and specials are available online.

Francis Fong Martial Arts Academy opened in 1976 and has worked to change people’s lives and improve the Atlanta community through martial arts. The academy believes the instruction provided will help students develop citizenship, self-confidence, self-reliance, discipline, respect, positive self-regard, goal-achievement, and physical, mental and emotional fitness. Its programs, designed to help students reach their full potential, include Wing Chung kung fu, Jun Fan Gung Fu, combat submission wrestling, Kali/Eskrima, Brazilian jujitsu, Thai boxing, Savate-Thai cross training, Maphilindo Silat, and youth martial arts. Sifu Francis Fong has more than 50 years of experience in Wing Chung kung fu, has trained both amateur and professional fighters for competitions, appeared in movies and television, and traveled internationally to teach his martial arts seminars.

Karate Atlanta Martial Arts teaches martial arts in the Cumming and Dunwoody, helping students learn life skills, self-defense, and traditional Tae Kwon Do. Karate Atlanta’s kids classes not only provide exercise and self-defense instruction but also teach community values, and enhance personal growth and focus. The facility also offers summer camps that stress fun while providing instruction as well as birthday parties with unique experiences such as supervised cake-cutting with a sword and breaking wooden boards with hands or feet. Adult courses increase fitness, improve balance and coordination, provide self-defense techniques and help students push past their limits in a fun, clean and safe facility. Karate Atlanta Martial Arts has online specials, passionate instructors, and tips for both kids and adults.

The mission of Supermaster Kim Martial Arts Academy, based in Cummings and serving the North Atlanta area, is to teach and inspire kids, teens and adults to reach their maximum physical and mental potential in Tae Kwon Do, judo, or self-defense. Supermaster Kim offers classes for ages 4-8, 9-13, 14 through adults, and judo courses, as well as an after-school program. All classes build on beginning techniques such as balance and coordination, flexibility, focus and eye contact, self-control, and self-confidence. Advanced training includes punching, kicking and stance skills, focus on fitness, stress relief and self-defense, and even Korean language instruction. Its after-school program includes pickup from the kids’ school to the studio, snacks, and time for homework, test reviews, art or reading before their lessons.