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St. Matthews Martial Arts
Building confidence, character, and community through martial arts for all ages.
5(5 reviews)
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Age-appropriate training for kids, teens, and adults focusing on technique, fitness, and character development.
Specialized classes including women's self-defense and bully prevention to build practical skills and confidence.
Fun, engaging day camps for children combining martial arts, games, and activities during school breaks.
Community events on the last Saturday each month with supervised activities for kids, perfect for parent date nights.
Memorable party packages with martial arts themes, games, and instructor-led fun for celebrations.
Personalized instruction tailored to individual goals, from beginners to advanced students seeking focused training.
Building confidence, character, and community through martial arts for all ages.
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St. Matthews Martial Arts is a premier dojo in Louisville, KY, offering martial arts training for children, teens, and adults. With a 5-star rating, we focus on holistic development—emphasizing self-confidence, discipline, and fun over just belt progression. Our experienced instructors provide individual attention in a supportive, inclusive environment. Beyond traditional classes, we host summer camps, fun days, bully prevention workshops, self-defense courses, and special events like lightsaber days. Whether you're a beginner or advanced learner, join our community to grow physically and personally.
I love St Matthews Martial Arts! My daughter has been training there for 2 years. The instructors are wonderful and really great with the kids. I love that they do more than just karate with the fun days, presentation tournament, bully prevention and self defense classes they also offer. I highly recommend it!
St. Matthew’s Martial Arts Dojo offers a wonderful learning environment for children, teenagers, and adults. The Masters and instructors are very patient, understanding, knowledgeable, and friendly; however they do provide a safe and structured space for beginning through advanced martial arts learners. If you are someone looking for individual or small group martial art lessons for you, your children, or your entire family this is the Dojo for you. Their summer camps are loads of fun according to my six year old. Also, every last Saturday of the month they have a Fun Day from 5pm-8pm for a reasonable price which I love because my husband and I use it for a date night. Finally, my family loves all the other activities that they offer such as lightsaber days, bully prevention classes, and Women’s Self-Defense. Oh, I almost forgot Master Joan and Master Alan are amazing.
Every person working there is as helpful as possible. They work to create a very inclusive and enjoyable environment for everyone. My son loves going. I know nothing about martial arts, but they are very focused on positive aspects. It doesn't seem militaristic at all. Nothing but great experiences there for the past few months wee been going.
Our son trained at St. Matthews Martial Arts starting in kindergarten. He's now a freshman in college, a third-degree black belt, and has taught classes, helped with birthday parties, and been an excellent punching bag during self-defense classes! What's most awesome about this dojo is that they are concerned with the whole child/teenager/young adult--not just their physical training and progression, but their character development as well. They are, quite simply, the best!
My sons go here and have had a great experience. The instructors are knowledgeable, patient people and they bring a lot of fun to the students. My sons love it and they've stuck with it because of the level of engagement given to them. The individual attention really stands out. Less about earning belts and more about gaining self-confidence and control.
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