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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

Friday, May 22, 2026
Register for class online at MindBody (not required)

12:30 pmAdult Blue to Black Belts
5:00 pmTeens - All Levels
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Upcoming Events

  • May 22 :  4:15 pm - 5:30 pm  Juniors Color Belt Promotion Test
  • May 22 :  6:00 pm - 8:00 pm  Adult Color Belt Promotion Test
  • May 23 :  4:00 pm - 6:00 pm  Youth and Teen Color Belt Promotion Test
  • May 25 :   Closed for Memorial Day
  • May 29 :   Zen Shin Seido 50th Anniversary - Late Registration closes except for White Belts
  • May 30 :  4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  Empowerment Self-Defense Workshop for kids ages 12–15
  • May 30 - May 31:  6:00 pm - 9:00 am  Kids SC26 Reward Party & Sleepover
  • Jun 2 :  6:00 pm - 9:00 pm  12 Hour Self-Defense Course Session 1

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.