Karate in Sutherland Shire
Karate Lessons Near Sutherland Shire
Do you want your child to grow up to feel confident and self-assured? Or, perhaps you are an adult who is looking to get into a new sport that will improve your physical fitness, as well as providing you with self-defence methods? At Head Academy, we can teach you Karate across Sutherland Shire.
At Head Academy, we create an atmosphere where everyone can learn and enjoy their time with us. There is no need to worry that we will focus on sport and competition. We are more concerned with teaching martial arts for self-defence and self-improvement. Read More
Why Learn Karate in Sutherland Shire?
Karate training near Sutherland Shire teaches self-defence, discipline, focus and confidence, which are all fantastic tools for life. It helps your child to grow and develop their physical, mental and emotional skills to deal with whatever life throws at them.
Our Karate lessons in Sutherland Shire will teach your child strength, mobility and coordination. Further benefits could also mean that their academic studies improve because they will learn how to have better concentration, which can be applied to their school lessons.
Unfortunately, bullying does happen. No parent wants their child to grow up with the emotional and mental scars of being bullied. Our Karate classes throughout Sutherland Shire equip your child for the various situations they may find themselves in.
Our PROTECT PROGRAMS is a proprietary system of conflict avoidance strategies. These teach our students the verbal, physical, mental and emotional tools necessary to support our martial arts style in delivering confidence, focus, discipline and self-defence.
At our Karate school near Sutherland Shire, we take each child’s age, weight, size and body type into account when teaching the different techniques to students. We can teach male and females of all ages and give them essential skills for life.
Our different classes help your child to grow in confidence, and it also helps to develop their gross, fine and motor skills when they are young.
If you have an older child, our lessons are suitable for both beginners and those who are more experienced. They are fun, engaging and challenging, and your children will look forward to coming each week.
Choose Head Academy for Your Karate Training Across Sutherland Shire Today
With our ancient Chinese wisdom for modern-day life, you can be sure that your child’s whole well-being is taken care of when you choose Head Academy. We do more than teach them to punch and kick.
If you are looking to learn Karate in Sutherland Shire, or you would like to find the best lessons for your child, check out our timetable today and find a lesson time that will suit you.
We keep our classes small, and there are only 8-10 students per instructor. By doing this, it means that your child will get enough individual attention to learn the skills and be prepared for life.
Contact us today for more information about Karate in Sutherland Shire or other locations, or to book your child into a martial art class, and you can look forward to seeing the positive changes in their life. Read Less
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Our martial art classes offer the very best in self defence training combined with systems of health and well-being that incorporate everything from flexibility and mobility to energy work (qigong) and fitness.
We train Martial Arts for self defence, health, and personal development through applied discipline to mastering our art. This is not a sport where there are winners and losers, and confidence is gained at the expense of someone else losing.
visit one of our Five Locations
Leichhardt, Caringbah, Engadine, Strathfield and Padstow.
Sifu Nathan Head
Founder of Head Academy Kung Fu (December 2003).
Sifu Nathan established both the Leichhardt and Caringbah branches of Head Academy. He has been training in martial arts since the age of 12, and has been teaching Jow Gar Kung Fu for the past 16 years. He is the Head Teacher for Head Academy and continues to train all instructors, school owners and Black Sashes. It was Sifu Nathan's vision to bring the disciplines of kung fu, meditation, qigong and healing back together and create a unique system for balancing the 4 Realms.
Sifu Chris Pendergast
Chris has been surrounded by an active lifestyle from a young age. Growing up Chris was very sport orientated competing to a high level in Cricket and Soccer and attended Endeavour Sports High School. After years of being in this type of environment he realised he needed more fulfilment in his life. A simple phone call was made to Sifu Nathan Head and Chris’s life was forever changed. He had discovered what was missing from his life which was only filled through physical activities. Kung Fu opened Chris’s eyes to all the answers he was seeking. It didn’t matter if the question wasn’t about Kung Fu, the power of Kung Fu wisened Chris up to the calmness it took to deal with any situation that confronted him. Chris realised what his journey was. Chris started up his own Head Academy Jow Gar Kung Fu School under the continual guidance of Sifu Nathan Head in Yarrawarrah in August 2013. With steady growth of students, Chris moved his school into a full time location based in Heathcote in October 2014. The school continues to flourish with the positive energy each student brings to his school. Not one to keep himself bored, Chris has a daughter Kayleigh and is expecting the arrival of twins with his wife Cassy. Chris is always searching for ways to better himself and goes by the following rules: Trust yourself, Break The Rules, Don’t be afraid to fail, Don’t listen to the naysayers, Work Overtime and Give Something Back. With constant goal setting, anything can be achieved!
Sifu James Agius
Sifu James is the Head instructor at Head Academy Kung Fu Padstow. He has a passion for instilling the values of traditional martial arts and the positive qualities they bring to day-to-day life. Sifu James teaches Jow Gar Kung Fu, Taoist meditation and Chi Kung every week.
Dai Si Hing Jun Liew
Jun is the lead instructor at the Leichhardt academy, and has been training with us for 12 years now. He is training towards his 2nd degree Black Sash.
Jun has been training at Head Academy since 2009 and has enjoyed the journey so much that he has gone on to instruct from 2014 and now has become a part-owner of the Leichhardt Academy. He very much subscribes to the idea of always learning, continually growing and improving; Jow Gar Kung Fu has been a great motivating vehicle to drive this passion. The biggest reasons Jun continues to train at Head Academy (for over a decade and running) is because of the open, ego-free, fun yet driven atmosphere on the mats, the superior skill and knowledge of the senior instructing team, and the depth and complexity of the Jow Gar style of Kung Fu. Beyond the training side of things, Jun has a unique insight as an instructor into all the programs delivered to the children - particularly the PROTECT program and self-defence principles we impart. One big reason the instructors continue to do what they do is because of the difference they make in these children's lives - this is no different in Jun's case.
Azi Wallmeyer
Azi has been training in Kung Fu since 2007, when a friend of his mentioned kung fu his interest was piqued immediately. He had wandered through many team sports and activities looking for a way to be healthy but never found one that fit. Kung fu turned out to be the one, he was fascinated by the traditions of it, the generations of knowledge being passed down, on the individual focus required to improve, and the giddy heights of reaching a goal with no one else to thank but hard work. Over the years of dedicated practice and martial arts exploration, he has learned many lessons about confidence, strength, conflict, and holistic health. He is undoubtedly a martial arts fanatic and is dedicated to passing on the cherished art of Jow Gar Kung Fu.
Sifu Eric Jewson
The first of Sifu Nathan Head's students to grade to Red Sash. Eric has been training with Head Academy Since 2004. He is a lead instructor at Head Academy Leichhardt and is a key figure and inspiration to all students who train with him, and who are taught by him. Eric is one of the "Original Three" who have fundamentally helped Sifu Nathan create and build Head Academy to what it is today.
Dai Si Hing Harrison Jewson
Has been training at Head Academy Kung Fu since 2004. One of the "Original Three" Harrison is a teacher of unrivaled talent. His joy of teaching, and for kung fu, shines through whenever he has interactions with students. He is a gifted kung fu practitioner who has dedicated most of his life to training in the art of Jow Gar Kung Fu. He is another of our Lead Instructors at the Leichhardt branch.
OUR LINEAGE
At Head Academy we teach the Chinese Martial Art know as Jow Gar Kung Fu. All programs and curriculums at Head Academy have been created, developed and refined by Sifu Nathan Head and his team of Senior Instructors over the past 16 years from the traditional forms that were passed down to him by Si Gung Andy Truong. We have constantly strived to create classes and programs that reflect our students goals, while maintaining the traditional focus on martial skill development and self defense.