MF Carterton Martial Arts

Nice instructors and friendly people but everything costs to progress, kit, gradings, leadership, they are strongly profit lead
Mar 13th, 2023

The classes are fun, hence the 2*, but after a while you start to notice that everything is an opportunity to make you pay more money, until the whole thing starts to feel like it's just for profit rather than martial arts. Gradings are expensive and people are tagged who clearly aren't able to do the curriculum, and although they tell you there is no pressure to grade, you are certainly made to feel like you cannot progress unless you pay more. At a certain level, you then need a sparring kit. You are only allowed to use their own branded kit which is 149.95. It's a shame they don't tell you this when you sign up, as otherwise you feel obliged to pay if you want to continue. So overall, fun lessons, some really nice people, but only sign up if you are prepared to continuously pay out more money to progress.
Aug 15th, 2022

Love the classes always motivating and fun - great to enjoy fitness again
Feb 6th, 2018

Jul 19th, 2017

Avoid this McDojo if you want to learn any real techniques or an actual martial art. The teaching is poor, its not even teaching as nothing is explained so the kids run riot and learn nothing. They go from ridiculous task to pointless task without taking the time to make sure every student knows what to do. How can you with so many people. It's so bad, really bad actually. But you get to go along every few months and pay a fee for them to get a brand to new colour belt or even worse tags, which means another fee later on, clever right? The "advanced" grades have awful technique so it's clear nothing changes even though the teacher looks as if he did a couple years learning real TKD or TSD. This is a money making machine, that's all. A scam. Search out some real clubs, thrn reference YouTube to compare how techniques should look etc. In this day and age nobody should be caught out when there's so much information that can be referenced. The day any of their students get caught in a self-defence situation is the day they will decide to never go back to training and realise they've wasted so much time and money learning how to prance about in a costume.
Feb 22nd, 2022