We can Pick-Up and Drop-off at UNC Campus!
Why Choose Ligo Dojo for Kids
Tuesdays and Thursdays
@ 5pm-6:15
with Sensei Chanel Douglas
Choose Ligo Dojo if your child (7-11) 1. Truly WANTS to learn karate, and 2. If they have the ability to follow a structured, no-nonsense class. Our new kids class operates Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5pm until 6:15. Ligo Dojo differs from other area schools in that we emphasize QUALITY OF EDUCATION in authentic Japanese karate, rather than childcare or skills-building for undisciplined children. Of course, your kids will find care and skills-building here, too, since those are inherent to karate. If you want your motivated child to mostly to LEARN, however, without the distraction of an undisciplined NORM, this is the place for them!
At Ligo Dojo, kids from the age of 7 are integrated, safely and compassionately, into our NEW program where the atmosphere is DEFINED as one of self-control, respect, and discipline. It is one in which a desire simply to LEARN and PERFECT an art form is the norm. This absolutely does NOT mean that your shy or unconfident child is not a match for our program. We have lots of experience with all types of kids, and we treat them with patience and compassion. It just means that the role-models your child will have in our classes are more generally students who have already overcome, or who are successfully overcoming, their shyness and gaining confidence, pulling the class average, and your child, always upwards.
Sensei Ligo began his own training 40 years ago (at the age of 13) as the only child member of a university club class (then offered here at UNC) and the result was that his desire to learn was constantly guided UPWARDS by a class average that ALREADY possessed discipline, maturity, and desire to learn. At Ligo Dojo, we are proud of our insistence on maintaining THAT KIND of training environment. Shopping parents might consider the alternative: If their child’s class is composed of a majority of students whose PARENTS want THEM to learn discipline because they haven’t yet, the capable, motivated child might actually be held back, simply by that class average.
Meet Sensei Chanel Douglas! A product of our Adult Program, Chanel has recently volunteered to begin teaching a KIDS PROGRAM for kids at Ligo Dojo, age 7-11.
Meet Sensei Chanel! A product of our Adult Program, Chanel has recently volunteered to begin teaching a KIDS PROGRAM for kids at Ligo Dojo, age 7-11.
Ian, Chris, and Lin, pictured here with Sensei Ligo, are current members of our program (as of January ’25), they are all three 14-years-old, and they have been with us FOR YEARS already. We are proud of their growth into strong, disciplined young men who are also QUITE COMPETANT at karate. Those same kids are present in the below clip of adults and kids working together at Ligo Dojo.