Good place to get a nice work out along with welcoming and kind people. Learn about Shaolin history and Lung fu forms, its really fun and will teach you all different styles of combat along with how to best defend yourself and learn to love the arts.

Started at Shaolin-Do about 3 years ago in the Kung Fu and Tai Chi programs. Within a year I had lost the additional 40+ pounds I had picked up over the previous 13 years.Now I am a Black Belt and love helping teach others.Everyone is a family here and have lots of fun.

Where to begin. My daughter and I started in the Kung-fu classes, while I have been learning in the Tai Chi as well. The atmosphere at the school with Sifu, Mike and Kelly (and the rest of the black belts) is with out a doubt awesome. Family friendly and close relationships are the keywords here. Everyone at this school watches out for each other in ways I have not ever found in a business or class. The pricing is very reasonable and the schedule is always being reviewed in order to better accommodate students ability to get the most out of the school and its teachings. For those that think the martial arts is all about kicking butt in bar fights or what ever, you are in the wrong frame of mind. For defense, this school had taught me and my daughter techniques that have already helped us both in situations we might not have been readily ready for before. I would highly recommend this school to anyone who has a hankering to learn a better way of thinking and health.

Be very careful of this school, their main objective is to take your money. They care more about money than the student. If you work a regular job like everyone else they are very inflexible about how they bill you. If you can only make it 3xs a month, you shouldnt be charged for 8 times. If you get out of work anytime after 6:30pm then forget about going 8 times unless you live 5 minutes away. Ive gone here for under 6 months and it feels like its run by an amatuer business man. You dont receive enough individual attention during class, and are often taught by brown belts or blue belts who cant answer your questions in the same way the black belts can. They dont have any pictures or videos of their forms, its written in a book so you have to know it 100% before you can actually work on it at home. I think this is the idea behind why they refuse to do pictures or videos so you learn a lot more slowly. Their billing schedule is adapted more for people who dont work or who are high school students. Also there are too many children in the class, other schools have a kids only class. The class room size is so small that there isnt enough room to have different people multitasking. There shouldnt be more than 12 people in the room, and they pack in as many as possible meaning its hard to move around and do kicks, etc. Also Kung Fu is the worst and longest time to learn actual self defense. Watching the black belts and brown belts, the forms are very artistic, but thats not going to do much if someone tries to rape you or beat you up in a bar fight. It would probably take 3 years or longer to learn to actually defend yourself. In the months that I was there there was only sparring one time, and the owner of the school is only there one time a month because he is in Sarasota the rest of the time meaning you dont get the real quality that the other location probably gets. Kicking ior punching nto the air isnt going to teach me how to defend myself in a life or death struggle, but it will allow them to draw $$ out the student for many years to come.