We offer adult and children's karate classes in the Melrose area for all ages. We strive to insure that our program is both fun and exciting to keep students' interest so they can enjoy the long term benefits of karate training.

Would you like your child to develop confidence, discipline, coordination and athletic ability? Our Kenpo Karate classes help children develop all these qualities.

Kenpo Karate for Children in the Melrose Area

If you live in the Melrose, MA area, give our karate dojo a call, your child will thank you.

What is Kenpo Karate?

Kempo is a term used to refer to a wide variety of martial arts, and is sometimes used as a blanket term for martial arts in general, especially in East Asia. Kempo is a Japanese translation of the Chinese word "quánfa" (or ch'üan2 fa3), meaning "fist principles", "way of the fist", or "law of the fist form".

In the West, Kempo is mostly known as a mixed style that combines a heritage in Chinese martial arts, especially Shaolin, with karate (and sometimes called "Kenpo Karate"), often mixed with elements of other Japanese arts like jujutsu and aikijujutsu.

In Japan, Kempo can refer to a large number of different systems of martial arts, mostly stemming from families in the feudal period—the term Kempo being used as an abbreviation, since the names are long.