Our daughter had been a student at GDT for over 2 years now and we thanks God for blessing her to…read morebe apart of GDT. Before she started with GDT she had a lot of struggles, such as attitude and school. We prayed for a long time to find the help our daughter needed. We tried many avenues but kept hitting dead ends. Long story short, since she started to attend GDT, her health improved, she is much more respectful and smile a lot more with adults, and she made it on the National Junior Honor Society at school. God is good. GDT is not only a friendly and safe dojo for kids to learn martial arts, the staffs teaches our kids to be respectful and kind towards everyone. And their workout is definitely worth more than the payment when it comes to our health benefits. I highly recommend GDT to everyone, especially for children who struggles with schools and social communication. God bless!!!

From the moment we came into contact with Christa and Noah Hoch, we have been so pleased with the…read moreprogram they help instruct! My son Liam, has already learned so much in the few short classes he's gone to. Noah is such a great instructor, and gives full attention to the students in his classes, and gives expert training for both karate and jiu jitsu! I can't recommend this program enough, the instructors love Jesus, and it shows through how they teach their classes. If you've been wanting to try martial arts, I highly recommend Christian Karate & Jiu-Jitsu Academy South!

Very poor maintenance. Something is always broken and they take over a year to fix. Women's…read morelocker Room has maybe two showers That work. Hot tub has been down for almost two years! The therapy pool has been down 3-4 weeks! They most Likely won't fix it. Find another health club because this one needs to be shut down permanently!

Great place. Clean and helpful staff. Great classes the trainers are wonderful and helpfulread more

This is a great place for kids to learn respect and self-control. My grandson learned confidence…read moreand how to control his anger as he earned his blackbelt. He will always remember the time he spent, the lessons he learned and the great friends he made. Having great roll models for a young boy is important when a father is not in their life. Thanks! SM

Great group of people working here helping kids and others become better people. Always impressed…read morewith interactions my son and I have had with them and various tournaments and exhibitions.

I decided to check out the women's self defense seminar this place was throwing one Saturday. My…read moremom and younger cousin decided to attend as well. I am glad I did! The class was taught by the owners Kai and Tom and they provided useful hands on tips on how to defend yourself against an attacker. Hopefully I will not have to use these moves in real life, but I left the class feeling confident in what I had learned. Apparently the gym holds these classes once a month and usually on a Saturday. The owners mentioned that they also teach karate and personal training both black belts. This gym is located near TU next to Tally's and mammoth comics so not hard to find at all!

Great place to start out your child for self defense, self confidence or all out learning of a…read moremartial arts. Are son has developed more discipline and focus and an ability to self defend. Great program for young kids.

Poor instruction. The instructor seems to have no passion for what he does and is just there to…read moremake money.

Top-notch martial arts instruction in a safe, supportive environment for adults and kids. There's…read moresomething for everyone. Want to focus on getting fit and improving your cardio? They have classes for that. Want hands-on combat? They have that, too. The head instructor, Jonny Carson, has 20+ years of fight and training experience, and teaches the fundamentals but also keeps up-to-date on new techniques.

Don't be fooled by this place. It looks nice. But it is in terrible shape. They refuse to maintain…read moreor fix anything until another few weeks or months beyond whenever they HAVE to. The pools are virtually unusable. If you take a tour and they try to give you the line that the therapy pool is around 95 & the regular pool is about 86, DO NOT BELIEVE THEM! The heaters have been broken for MONTHS now. That's right, I said months. The temp today was 76 in the therapy pool & 78 in the main. Even when they were working, the temps would range wildly. They were never the same temp twice. The therapy pool could be 83 one day and over 100 a few days later. They. Just. Don't. Care. They refused to add proper chlorine to the pools for months as well. It took repeated calls to the health dept to get them to FORCE them to get it up to level. "Oh, how bad could it be?" you ask. The proper level is supposed to be 7.2. The therapy pool was .2 to .5. For MONTHS. That is very dangerous & unhealthy. They were cloudy all the time and smelled. The saunas were down for a long time. I was told there was black mold in the ladies locker room one for a very long time, but even at that, they refused to fix it. Or CLOSE IT! Even with black mold. The showers were broken for over a year before they got fixed despite dozens of requests to fix them. It was not a complex plumbing issue, it was REPLACING A SHOWER HEAD!! Get the picture? They care about your money, not you. Then they will not spend any to keep things fixed. They will tell you anything to get you to sign up, but if you ever have a problem, you are all the way out of luck. So if you believe the "C" in "YMCA" stands for "Christian" - nope. WWJD? Care enough about people to keep things fixed.

I've been pretty busy these last few months, and haven't had as much time to come here as much, but…read moreI've got a bit more free time again and have made my way back. The main difference that I've noticed (and I guess the reason for this update) is that the staff doesn't seem as interactive. And I kind of mean this in a good way? They used to have workers stand in the entryway upstairs, at the top of the straits landing between the two sections of workout equipment. This always felt a little awkward to me, like they were just watching everyone exercise (which was their job, so they were) and it was probably weird (and super boring!) for them too! It was nice that they were more available for any questions/ issues that way though. Now I'm not sure where they are? So maybe something between those two ways would be good... I'll also say that a few months ago, the staff was always super welcoming when coming in and leaving the building. Recently, I haven't really seen as much of that. Honestly I'm not sure if I miss that, or if I'm cool with just being able to walk in and just kind of stay to myself and go on with my way lol. I guess again, maybe something in between would be good. I think maybe one reason for this is that everyone knows how to use their cards or their phones to check themselves in, so there's less of a need to have someone right there at the door all the time, to be fair. Not gonna change my star rating even though there are some changes, just because I feel like the differences are more neutral in my eyes. Not necessarily better, or worse, just differences! I just wonder if these were intentional changes or not...?