Why Choose Us?

At Revolution Self Defense it is our goal to provide positive, life-changing experiences for all of our students. By striving to constantly improve our program we are able to provide martial arts classes that are not only fun and engaging, but also provide the benefits that many other schools claim to teach yet often fall short of achieving.

Below are some examples of how Revolution Self Defense provides a better experience than our competitors:

Professional Instruction: Not only are our instructors experienced martial artists, they also have a wealth of experience teaching and training outside of the martial arts world. For example, our Chief Instructor, Scot Schwichow is a former trainer for a major pharmaceutical corporation, while Instructor Glenn Murphy trained and managed the education team at the prestigious London Science Museum. Our instructors also attend training and seminars designed to improve their teaching abilities in order to offer the best classes to our students.

Owner Operated: The owner of the school, and creator of the program is on premises and teaching classes every day at Revolution Self Defense. At other schools many of the instructors are students who are required to teach for their belt advancement. We run a professional school with classes taught by professional martial arts instructors.

Practicing What We Preach: We ask our students to train hard, set goals and take pride in our school. The same is asked of our instructors. Every instructor at Revolution Self Defense is also a dedicated athlete and martial arts practitioner. They train every week, stays in good physical shape and serve as a role model to their students. This unfortunately is a rarity in many schools.

Mutual Respect: Our Karate students are asked to address instructors with the title of Mister or Sir. To earn respect one must show respect, therefore our instructors also address our students and answer questions with the title of Sir or Ma'am.

Professional Facility: Safety and hygiene are of paramount importance to us. That's why our facility is cleaned daily and equipped with industry leading Zebra brand training mats. We also are the only school in Clayton with more than one training room which allows us to further serve our students and provide more focused classes.

Humility: While we are proud of our school and our achievements in the martial arts, we feel that humility is also necessary. That is why none of our instructors are addressed with pretentious titles such as "Master" or "Doctor". Many claim to be masters and even take that title, but to truly master the martial arts takes a lifetime of dedicated practice.

Community Involvement: Revolution Self Defense believes in giving back to the community as well as those around the world who face hardship. Through events planned and hosted at Revolution Self Defense our students have helped raise thousands of dollars and supplied goods that have been donated to various causes including: The Clayton No Drug Club, The Clayton Mid Day Rotary Club, Harbor domestic violence shelter, and the families devastated by the recent natural disasters in Haiti and Japan.

Authentic MMA: We offer classes in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Kickboxing, two of the key arts used by MMA fighters and proven time and again to be successful in competition. If another school's "MMA" program does not teach either of the two arts listed above, then the students are not really training MMA.

As you can see, there are a host of reasons why training at Revolution Self Defense is such a rewarding experience. If you still are not convinced you can see what other folks have to say on our Testimonials page, or read some reviews that have been submitted to Google. Better yet, stop by our facility some time to watch classes, meet our students and instructors, or take a couple of classes. You will be glad that you did!