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Karate for Adults

Thousand Waves teaches martial arts as a holistic fitness program to help you build strength, stamina, and spirit. Immediate benefits include increased flexibility, balance, and muscle tone. Workouts are vigorous and challenging for adults of all ages, physical abilities, and fitness levels.

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Karate for Kids

A positive classroom environment is essential to a child’s ability to learn. We present karate to children as a body, mind, and spirit practice to improve their fitness, concentration, and coordination. Kids also learn age-appropriate skills for dealing with bullying and other forms of violence.

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Self-Defense

Empowerment self-defense is rooted in mental, verbal, and physical skills that help keep us safer from violence in all its forms.  From short workshops to in-depth courses, we offer programs for individuals and groups centered on the realities of violence that are likely to impact us the most.

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Today’s Classes

Thursday, October 17, 2024
Register for class online (not required) at MindBody

12:30 pmAdult White Belts
12:30 pmAdult Blue to Black Belts
4:15 pmJuniors
5:00 pmYouth & Teens - All Levels
6:00 pmAdult White Belts
6:00 pmAdult Blue to Black Belts
7:00 pmMeditation (Hybrid PW: 872860)
7:45 pmAdult Black Belts

Upcoming Events

  • Oct 19  Seido 48th Anniversary Benefit Tournament (Hackley School, NY)

  • Oct 26  Black Belt Testing

  • Oct 26  Nelson Seido Karate 50th Anniversary Tournament (New Zealand)

  • Oct 30  12-Hour Self-Defense Course Session 2 (6:00 pm-9:00 pm)

  • Oct 31  Halloween - Kids Train in Costumes!

  • Nov 03  Monthly Kajukenbo Workshop (12:00 pm-1:15 pm)

  • Nov 06  12-Hour Self-Defense Course Session 3 (6:00 pm-9:00 pm)

  • Nov 13  12-Hour Self-Defense Course Session 3 (6:00 pm-9:00 pm)

  • Nov 14  Regular Meeting of TW Board of Directors

  • Nov 15  Juniors Promotion Test (4:15 pm-5:30 pm)

  • Nov 15  Adult Promotion Test (6:00 pm-8:00 pm)

  • Nov 16  Youth/Teen Promotion Test (4:00 pm-6:00 pm)


Thousand Waves Martial Arts & Self-Defense Center fosters fitness, healing, empowerment and peacemaking by promoting healthy minds and bodies through violence prevention, self-defense and traditional martial arts programs for adults and children of all ages.