Systemized Safety
Daily Safety Briefings
Children, teenagers, and even adults are human beings. It makes such a dramatic difference to be reminded of safe and unsafe actions. Our daily safety briefings are exact, methodic, engaging.
Age-Appropriate Curriculum
Zero head contact policy for kids < 16. No grappling for <5. Submissions are only taught to students old enough & mature. We ban techniques that have a high risk of training injury. Our students become extremely effective martial artists while we still keep things far safer than other academies.
6-1 Avg Student To Teacher Ratio
It’s a number that allows for excellent individual attention & enables instructors to intervene during unsafe moments. We’re talking about paid, accountable, & highly trained instructors. Not untrained volunteers or poorly trained teenagers.
More Safety Info
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Safety briefings every class (ages 5+).
Interruption of any emotional sparring.
Soft surface training, only.
Proper takedown & falling form.
Injury / accident tracking / analysis.
No running on the mat without explicit instruction.
Assigned zones during sparring / grappling.
Instructor owl vision (instructors have a standard of viewing all students at least every five seconds).
Crystal-clear pathing during classes that prevents collision.
All classes are done in the open. Parents can always watch from just a few feet away.
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Ages 18+: Yes, controlled contact.
Ages 13-17: Yes, controlled contact to the body only.
Ages 8-12: No.
Ages 5-7: No.
Ages 3-4: No. -
Ages 3-4: No.
All other age groups (ages 5+) do practice grappling (or what you might know as “wrestling”). But obviously under safe conditions. -
Only for ages 16+.
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Major injuries (like a fracture) are extremely rare. Approximately 1 in 400 students, per month. Bruises and bumps are of course more common.
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Most schools give some safety warnings on the first day and some safety is built into students using proper form. But beyond that, very little.
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Not really. But we wouldn’t care if they were.
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No. Although, some instructors are just loud in general. But there’s definitely no yelling at children. Except perhaps to prevent an accident (“STOP”).
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For starters, the class structure and content is already motivating. It definitely helps that classes are already exciting to begin with.
That said, to supplement that, instructors rely heavily (90%+) on positive reinforcement to motivate students.
But we also certainly aren’t afraid of some good old fashioned discipline: pushups, timeout, loss of game, etc. -
While usually unnecessary: pushups, loss of martial arts game, timeout, writing sentences, a drop in student discipline score, are all on the table.
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At a normal academic school in the United States, the student to teacher ratio is something like 25-1. Give or take.
At Rise, it averages 6-1. And instructors are mandated to keep a constant “owl vision” to watch students throughout the class.
It can also be intimidating for the typical school teacher to deal with school bullies. Whereas all of our instructors are martial artists. They aren’t scared of disciplining child bullies, directly.
Anti-bullying is also explicitly taught in our curriculum to the students. -
Highly unlikely.