Adults in Gilmer who come back to karate
Our Gilmer adult class is for students 18 and over at 202 Buffalo St, the same building where our Gilmer kids and teens classes train. It is traditional karate taught by black belt instructors — stances, blocks, strikes, kicks, forms, partner work and practical self-defense — with belt and stripe tests marking progress.
A lot of the adults who train here did karate as children and stopped somewhere around high school. They remember the bow, the line-up, the first kata, and they are not sure how much of it they still have. The answer is usually: enough to start again. Nobody is asked to begin from zero or to prove what they used to know — you pick up where you actually are and the instructor takes it from there.
For adults who have never trained at all, the first class is the same first class everybody else had: bow in, warm up, basics taught in steps. No prior experience is required and no fitness level is required. Gilmer is a small town and this is a local academy rather than a franchise, so the people you train with are people you already see around town.
The Buffalo St building also runs our after-school program for Gilmer, Harmony and New Diana schools. That means a working parent can collect a child in the afternoon and train in the same building, or come back in the evening and train while the child is in the kids class. One address, one trip.