The instructors are fantastic with our 5 year old son. Our son has become more self-disciplined and…read moreconfident in himself and loves coming here. He recently received his fist stripe, yellow, and is working on his green stripe now. I highly recommend Macleods Martial Arts.

From the owner: At MacLeod's Martial Arts Academy we offer programs for children and adult ages. Our fitness,…read morestrength, cardio, flexibility training is done in a fun and safe environment. Anyone with limited abilities will be provided with an adapted program. Taekwon-Do is a great way to exercise, create friendships, increase your confidence, learn self defense, have lots of fun and much more. We welcome everyone from ages 5+. Our club offers internationally qualified instructors who have up to date background checks completed.

Grand Master Woo Yong is the 8th Dan Black Belt, it is honour to learn taekwondo at Woo Yong…read moreAcademy. The instructors are also amazing, who makes sure to pay attention to individual students according to their strength. Age doesn't matter, if u r looking for urself or for ur kids, this is the best place to be.

If you are interested in a real Tae Kwon do club, skip this one. There is a vast sea of quality…read moreclubs and Grasshoppers is at the bottom of the list. His students are on a pay cash to win plan. They are so under prepared he refuses to enter them into sparring competitions. The tournaments Phil (owner) tries to run, host very few numbers and have dubious rules at best. He makes special rules to benefit his club without informing other clubs of these special rules. In essence there is no standard he lives by. Cheat to win is the motto. Again he refuses to host tournaments with a standard rule set. His students continue to fail at real tournaments (ie not hosted by Phil). So unless you want to pay for belts pay to win go to a real club.

From the owner: At Grasshoppers, we offer a unique opportunity to study TaeKwonDo in its traditional form. We are…read morethe only Martial Arts school in Eastern Canada authorized to teach Grandmaster Tae Eun Lee’s Moo Kwang System. Our unique style combines elements from various martial arts with the most up to date fitness training. As a student at Grasshoppers, you will learn ancient TaeKwonDo and Hapkido techniques passed down from master to student for many generations. You will learn practical and effective self-defence techniques, while gaining greater self-confidence and self-control. Grasshoppers is a traditional martial arts school. We emphasize the importance of training the mind, body and spirit as one. Specializing in family and child classes we have a program that is right for you. Please contact us to start your FREE trial to see if our school is right for you!

I had some weird experiences with this club in late 2019, but one of the younger instructors in the…read morekickboxing class in particular. I don't know if they're still there (this was just pre-pandemic) and I can't check because he refused to tell me his name. He was abusive to the new students, and I tried talking to him several times just to get his attention off of other people he was being an asshole to. Some people are not meant to teach, but I would give some leeway if he were at least good at it. Without getting too much more specific, you shouldn't be paying every month to put up with some guys personality disorder. I did around 4 classes of this, and decided not to go back for more. Another thing that put me off was that everybody already had THEIR partner, and refused to work with anyone else. This was pretty frustrating and unwelcoming as a new member, and I just had to wait around awkwardly asking people if they wanted to work together. A few times I had to stand there until someone just showed up late. I think this speaks to club leadership. I'll speak more to that. I liked Rad (the head instructor). We had a few chats about cardio and GJJ after class. I was excited to keep coming back and try other classes because of him, but... after taking some kickboxing, It didn't seem like he was interested in being a leader at his own club. Just let people do whatever they wanted, and focused on pushing people for a burner workout. He usually spent class sitting down in the back, whispering with other instructors, and not really doing much to monitor or teach. I would repeat some of what the other reviewers here have said: He's very hands off, and just kind of shouts. Despite the website that preaches "self improvement goals, go at your own pace, we are a family". Most of my past martial arts experience is in an okinawan style of karate, but I've done some boxing and kickboxing before. This is probably part of why 374 struck me the wrong way so much: in karate respect is key, and so is club leadership. Partners were chosen randomly and intentionally mixed up at times. Every technique asked to be thrown is also thrown by the instructor (this was huge for us). Poor behaviour is discouraged, and you'd get kicked out the door for being an unreasonable ass. Going from that to a room full of cliquey students, one complete asshole of an instructor, and a leader that wasn't interested in leading, was jarring to say the least.

Ive had quite a bit of experience in martial arts - mostly between karate and muay thai and I can't…read moresay I was impressed with the quality of instruction. There's clearly some very proficient people in class but they mainly stick to themselves; otherwise most people are beginners. Ill echo another review - instruction is almost non existant in the muay thai and boxing classes. I mean real, technique based instruction. Classes consist of find a partner, do combo on pads, switch, high rep burnout calisthenics and thats it. Not once in nearly a dozen classes did I even hit a heavy bag or thai pads. If you have experience, youll likely not improve, if anything you'll get worse. We were told to clinch and it didn't even seem like instructor knew how to do it; that or he just didn't care to really teach it. If youre a beginner, youre not going to learn the fine points of techniques. For example, it'll be demanded you slip or put pressure on or whatever but youre never shown how to refine and perfect techniques. Beginners are often expected to rely on being paired with more experienced people so they can show them what to do. In addition, my last class there was a terrible experience. Got paired up with the instructor for a "light, playful" round of sparing. No mouth guard or head gear and the instructor just cranked me nonstop. No lesson learned, no tips, no point - just left class with an awful migraine and never went back. Im fine with full contact as Ive actually fought before but don't ask for light, playful sparring and beat the life out of somebody and then offer no constructive criticism....especially from the instructor. No comments on the jiu-jitsu class but in my opinion, go elsewhere. Theres enough black belts in HRM these days. Nevermind that most have never seen the instructor roll or compete so it raises some questions. The diamond in the rough is the wrestling class. Finding an adult wrestling class that is fine with total beginners is nigh impossible. They bring in a different instructor for wrestling and the guy absolute class. He was super patient and gave extra help to myself and my partner as we were both beginners. If he ran his wrestling 2 to 3 times a week outside of 374 Id buy a year of coaching tomorrow.