The 30-Day Kids Test Drive

You brought them in for the free class. Then nothing happened.

They liked it. Most kids who come in for a free class do. You watched them leave the mat sweaty and pleased with themselves, and you fully intended to sign them up.

Then the week happened. Then the next one. Then it had been long enough that bringing it up felt like starting over.

One class was never going to tell you what you needed to know.

Think about what you actually had to go on.

Forty-five minutes, most of which you spent on a bench watching them figure out where to stand. They spent the first ten at the edge. You asked in the car how it went and got "good." That was the whole report.

Then we asked you for a real decision, on that.

A free class tells you whether your child had fun for forty-five minutes. It doesn't tell you whether they'll stick with it. And sticking was the entire thing you were trying to find out.

The part nobody at the front desk hears.

Every house with a kid in it has the bin. The cleats, the guitar, the belt from the place that lasted six weeks. Nobody wants to add to it, and that isn't you being cheap, that's you having done this before.

So price it honestly. Two classes a week, about an hour each. Compare that to a season sport: two practices, plus a Saturday that eats the whole day, plus travel, for three months, and then it ends and you start over with something else. This doesn't have a season. Miss a week and nobody's letting a team down.

Thirty days is how you find out for ninety-seven dollars instead of a season.

If they're 5 to 12

The first thing you'll notice isn't a technique. It's that they start listening the first time, usually inside two weeks. That's not a coincidence, it's what the class spends forty-five minutes rewarding.

By class four they stop looking at you between drills. By day 30 they can break a wrist grab, get loud, get away, and fall down without getting hurt, which is the injury kids actually get.

If yours was the one standing at the edge, this is the normal arc rather than the exception:

"He started off not wanting to participate but has warmed up to the other kids and instructors a lot! He follows along very well and loves going! He has also become a lot more confident in himself." Alex H. · Google

That took about three months. Nobody rushed him.

If they're 13 to 17

Different room, different problem. At this age the hard part isn't the training, it's walking into a space full of people who already know each other.

So we handle that first. They get paired with somebody whose job is to make them look good, and the room is used to new people because new ones arrive constantly.

The training is real. Same curriculum as the adult program, scaled, taught by the same instructors, with none of the talking-down that makes a teenager decide something is for little kids.

"My daughter joined the teen program and instantly felt welcomed by both the staff and the other teens in her class. She looks forward to her classes every week." Alyssa H. · Google

"My 14 year old son and I have been training with Krav Maga for the past year. My son has really come out of his shell and has gained confidence in himself that he never had before." lrchavez76 · Google

Who's actually teaching them.

Colorado Krav Maga is owned by James and Shannon Hiromasa. James is a subject matter expert for Colorado POST, helping to oversee all law enforcement academies in the state, and Denver Health contracts him to train their paramedics and ER staff.

Plainly: James helps set the standards Colorado's first responders are trained to. He also built your kid's curriculum, and every instructor on our mats is certified under it.

Our motto hasn't changed in 25 years. Be prepared, not paranoid. We aren't here to make your child afraid of anything.

Three classes to change your mind.

Three isn't arbitrary. It's about where a kid stops being the new one.

Bring them three times. If it still isn't working, tell the front desk on your way out and we'll refund the $97 that day. No form, no phone call, no "let me get my manager." They keep the uniform. It's theirs either way.

You're risking three drop-offs.

The hard part already happened. They did it.

Walking into a room of strangers, not knowing anybody, not knowing what was about to happen. That was the whole ask, and they did it weeks ago.

Everything after it is the part they enjoy.

Thirty days. Their uniform. $97. Three classes to change your mind.