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Joining our academy offers numerous benefits such as improved physical fitness, self-defense skills, discipline, confidence, stress relief, and a sense of community. Students also develop focus, respect, and mental resilience through their training.

ABK Collective offers a variety of disciplines: ABK (American Budo Kwan), RBSD (Reality Based Self Defense), Defense to BJJ, Tai Chi, UMA Functional Fitness. Each discipline has its own unique techniques, principles, and training methods, catering to different interests and goals.

We offer classes for various age groups, including children, teenagers, and adults. We also have specialized programs tailored to specific age ranges, such as Karate A to Z for pre-school aged children, ensuring that the training is appropriate and engaging for each group.

No prior experience is required to join our academy. We welcome beginners and provide introductory classes to teach fundamental techniques and principles. The instructors are trained to work with students of all skill levels and abilities.

Karate in Japanese means “way of empty hand”.  The word “Karate” has become a generic word for the martial arts and is used in our school for the purpose of familiarity to the public.  The style that we teach is American Budo Kwan, which is based on Tae Kwon Do enhanced with elements of Shotokan Karate, Hapkido and Kung Fu. 

Training sessions at our academy typically involve a combination of warm-ups, skill drills, partner practice, forms, kicking combinations, sparring, self defenses and conditioning exercises. The classes are designed to be challenging, yet enjoyable, and cater to the specific goals of the students.

Karate in Japanese means “way of empty hand”.  The word “Karate” has become a generic word for the martial arts and is used in our school for the purpose of familiarity to the public.  The style that we teach is American Budo Kwan, which is based on Tae Kwon Do enhanced with elements of Shotokan Karate, Hapkido and Kung Fu. 

ABK is a style of martial arts that has many different drills that quickly switch from one structured activity to another structured activity.  This constant change requires students to develop focus by paying attention in class.  It is in this type of environment where students diagnosed with A.D.D. seem to thrive.  The constant change helps them to focus on what they are doing by challenging them with newer and increasingly more demanding exercises.  The structure of the class and the drills being taught keeps them on a path to their next goal and self-esteem is built by achieving those goals.

It is different at each belt level and for each student.  If the students adhere to our recommendation of attending classes 2 to 3 times per week, the beginning belt ranks, white, yellow, and orange, take 1 to 3 months each.  The intermediate belt ranks green belt through blue belt, take between 3 and 6 months each, and the advanced ranks, brown belt and up, take between 4 and 12 months each.  A few of our students have attained a Black Belt in as little as 4 years.  This is a rare case however and only achieved by those students who attend class very often and sometimes supplement their training by taking private instruction.  On average, it takes a student who attends 3 classes per week between 5 and 7 years.