San Yama RyuKids & Family
The Water Path · Skills lead
Every San Yama student trains all four elements of the mon. Young students lead with water: skills built through training and practice.
Kids martial arts · Lafayette, Louisiana · Ages 3–18
Real martial arts in Lafayette, taught with care. Kids build the focus, confidence and discipline that carry into school, sports and everything else, one earned belt at a time.
Daytime martial arts for homeschool families: structured physical education, a steady group of peers, and a skill set your kids will carry for life.
Our first daytime group for homeschool families:
The mon holds four elements. Every student trains all four, and young students lead with water: skills built patiently, until confidence is who they are.
Water shapes stone through repetition. Kids practice the fundamentals until they are second nature, and confidence follows the skill.
Listening, focus and showing up ready. Every class starts with a bow.
Standing up for others and never quitting. Teens begin training it directly.
Options: words first, then distance, then skills.
Each level has its own standards, matched to what kids that age can safely and joyfully do.
Listening, balance, coordination and safe falling, taught through play.
Little Ones program →Focus, respect and first self-defense skills. Anti-bullying in every class.
Juniors program →Throws, escapes and conditioning. Eligible for the competition team.
Youth program →Practical self-defense and leadership, with a direct path into the adult art.
Teens program →A structured path where every rank is earned. Water first; fire when they're ready.
Little Ones: listening, balance, safe falling
Focus, escapes, anti-bullying
Throws, conditioning, line-up matches
Fire is introduced: practical self-defense
Kempo, jujutsu, taijutsu modules
Weapons, traditional & modern
Interschool tournaments and traditional line-up matches, where endurance and technique count more than trophies.
One membership for the household: siblings, parents, or both. Parents can train in the adult art while the kids train theirs.
Homework time, then straight into training.
This is not a franchise with a rotating staff. Your child trains in a traditional martial arts school under instructors who have spent their lives in it.
Founder of San Yama Ryu Bujutsu and a ninth-degree black belt (Kudan), with certified rank in more than ten classical Japanese and Okinawan systems.
Seventh-degree black belt (Nanadan) and heir to the system, with certified Japanese rank in classical swordsmanship, staff and jujutsu.
Every rank we hold is published with the system that awarded it and the date it was earned. We would rather you check.
Straight answers about safety, structure and what to expect.
Every level follows age-specific standards, and every instructor is trained in them. Contact is controlled and supervised, and kids learn to fall safely first.
Instructors with decades of documented training, under a ninth-degree black belt who founded this system. Every rank, the system that awarded it, and the date it was earned are published on our instructors page.
Athletic clothes and bare feet. Nothing to buy in advance — we'll tell you exactly what to bring for your free week.
We teach the opposite: stay calm, use your words first, and use skills only to protect yourself or someone else.
We offer individual and family memberships with no long contracts. We'll go over options during your free week.
Come watch, meet the instructors, and let your child try a class. Youth classes run Monday, Friday and Saturday.
Every youth class is built on San Yama Ryu Bujutsu, a complete adult art of functional protection taught by certified masters. Water first. Fire when you're ready.