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“Our 5-year-old son was becoming quite a handful. Not listening. Pushing back on any discipline and structure we tried to implement. We were almost at our wits end… trying to do everything right and he just kept getting more and more unruly. A friend told me about how well her child responded to taking martial arts classes, so…” READ MORE

“As a female real estate agent, we are told when showing a property a) to have someone around, b) to wear jackets with pockets to carry self-defense items; and c) keep our cell phones handy… but for me that wasn’t enough… I was still a little fearful…”
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“I am a shorter man, a little on the stocky side and way out of shape. I always thought that to do martial arts of any kind, you had to look like Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan… then I spoke with Sensei Kevin after stopping by the dojo one day during a class.” … READ MORE

“I despise the gym. I don’t like ‘working out’. I am not a fan of the exercise… period. And on top of that, I’m a little shy. But I knew I had to get into shape. I met Lucy at a networking event and she suggested I try Aikido. I told her about my shyness and she said…” READ MORE

“Our office does team building activities once per quarter. This quarter, we brought in Kevin Kelleher of Aikido of Escondido to instruct our team on the art of Aikido, which we selected because it is primarily a self-defense rather than an attack-type of martial arts. WOW! What a great decision…” READ MORE