Salt Lake SideKicks

Highly recommend!! Karen and Scott (owners) have created a fantastic culture with their instructors that is welcoming, encouraging, and also challenges students to push themselves and keep learning. They do a masterful job of working with kids and handling challenging behaviors with grace and kindness, yet appropriate firmness. I appreciate their clear tuition structure and communication as well. Wonderful business!

Best kids’ sport experience to-date. We have four kids who have been involved in every sport/activity on the list. Side Kicks is absolutely top-notch and honestly the most impressive operation we’ve experienced based on organization, communication and quality of the instructors and classes. Karyn and Scott are excellent at engaging kids of all ages, abilities, personalities and unique needs. They strike the perfect balance of being strict about class decorum but do it with kindness and gentleness, all while making it a ton of fun for even the youngest students. Classes are well-staffed and each student gets plenty of individualized instruction along with the group work. Can’t recommend this place more highly!

This place has everything you need and more to get your children, or yourself into martial arts. The lead instructor and owner Karen has made an incredible space and welcoming environment to give their students the opportunity to learn and an experience that has great value in life as a whole. The facility is kept incredibly clean and professional. The instructors work with the kids both as teams and individuals in every class. My son has been doing classes for a month, and has been loving every minute of class, and never wants to miss one. They have flexibility in how often you want to come, and they include uniform, testing for belts, and all the classes in the monthly tuition. Super helpful and cost saving. This place is well worth considering, and you have an opportunity to try the classes for a week to make sure it’s a good fit before moving forward. Overall I have only great things to say about all the instructors and the experience that we’ve had. We joined with a friend to make it more exciting, but we didn’t really need to. Both boys are showing up ready to learn new skills as well as achieving personal goals. Thank you sidekicks for being such a positive for children!

My child has enjoyed being a part of this Taekwondo school for a few years now. If you’re interested in your child learning physical fitness, mental discipline, or how to focus, or use self-control this is a great place for them. The instructors show an exemplary amount of patience and kindness. They have a true respect for what they are teaching; and always go above and beyond to help each child reach their goal.

We have absolutely loved Sidekicks! The instructors are all so kind and amazing while also not being overly easy on the students and pushing them to do their best! We have had all 3 of our kids in their karate classes now for about a year and hope to continue on as long as our kids are wanting to do it! They have made friends, found confidence, gained amazing skills as well as self defense techniques and always have fun. The summer camp programs they offer are also great and we just love the school, instructors and programs. Highly recommend!