After-School Martial Arts That Builds Confident, Focused, Respectful Kids

At Star Martial Arts, our After School Program is designed to create a structured, exciting, and enriching experience for your child every single day.

A typical day looks like this:

🚌 Safe Transportation

We pick up your child directly from their school and bring them to our facility in a safe and supervised environment.

🍎 Snack & Social Time

Once they arrive, students have a chance to unwind, eat a healthy snack, and socialize with friends in a positive and respectful atmosphere.

📚  Quiet Time

Our team provides dedicated time for students to focus on schoolwork with light supervision. It’s a great way for them to build responsibility while getting a head start on their evening!

🥋 Weekly Martial Arts Class

Every student participates in a structured martial arts class twice per week that helps build confidence, discipline, respect, and focus—all while having fun and staying active!

🎯 Life Skill Mat Chats

Each month, we focus on a different life skill—like perseverance, kindness, or leadership—through brief but meaningful group discussions that connect martial arts with real-world values.

🎨 Enrichment Activities

Whether it’s a team-building game, fitness challenge, or a creative arts & crafts project, we keep afternoons full of variety and energy.

👋 Parent Pick-Up

By the time you arrive, your child will have learned something new, exercised their body and mind, and made progress toward becoming the best version of themselves.

Yes! We proudly offer safe and reliable transportation from a variety of local elementary schools directly to our facility each day.

Our team of licensed and trained drivers ensures that every child is picked up on time and transported with care in our clearly marked, insured vehicles. Each van is supervised, and we follow strict safety protocols to give you peace of mind while your child is on the way to us.

Once they arrive, students are greeted by our friendly staff and smoothly transitioned into the rest of their afternoon routine—which includes snack time, homework help, martial arts class, and enrichment activities.

Many children find pride in being able to do “cool” things like dancing, juggling, singing, playing an instrument, etc., etc., etc.

I've seen many kids enter talent shows, and show off their martial arts skills. The crowd is blown away every time!

There's simply something fascinating and exciting about watching martial arts. And your child will take great pride in his abilities.

Our After School Program is built around the core principles of martial arts, which naturally promote better behavior, stronger focus, and positive character development.

Through consistent martial arts training, students learn to:

✅ Follow directions the first time

✅ Respect adults and peers

✅ Control their bodies and impulses

✅ Stay focused on tasks even when distractions are present

We reinforce these habits every day in class and through our weekly Life Skill Mat Chats, where students learn practical lessons in self-discipline, patience, confidence, and responsibility.

What we teach on the mat goes far beyond kicks and punches—our students carry these skills into their classrooms, homes, and everyday life, helping them become more respectful, attentive, and self-aware individuals.

Parents often tell us they see a noticeable difference in behavior and focus within just a few weeks!

Not at all. While kids have fun and stay active, everything we do has a purpose. From martial arts training to leadership drills and life skills, this program is about helping your child grow — not just filling time.

When parents take their kids to appointments – normally the parent has to run around and do everything in their power to get their children to the appointment on time.

“Hurry up!” they shout, “We'll be late!”

(How many times have you said this?)

But with martial arts, something fascinating happens… Often the children are the ones yelling these things! They don't want to be late, and they never want to miss a class.

In fact, I know of many parents who use martial arts as an incentive to get chores done. If the kids are good, do their chores, and do their homework – they get martial arts as a reward.

That's because your child will have a ton of fun. He'll be laughing and smiling throughout the entire class. And because He'll constantly be setting and reaching goals – He'll want to stick with the program.

It will become a part of his life as if it was always there.

On this page I've said “he” a lot. But the truth is, there are just as many girls in many of our classes as there are boys.

Girls love martial arts just as much, and get the same fulfillment out of it as boys do.

Also, if I've learned anything in my years of teaching, its that girls are just as tough as boys. Many are even tougher!

So you don't have to worry about your little girl getting hurt, or feeling scared because she'll be practicing with boys. In fact, the boys may even be the ones who are scared.