Physical & Mental Fitness
You understand the value of staying active and healthy. You also know how important it is to keep your mind sharp and your spirit strong while maintaining focus and balance in your life.
Growth & Development
You also understand the need for building confidence, respect, and awareness while nurturing a heart for serving in and interacting with your community, and developing the skills and discipline to succeed.
Peace & Confidence
You care about the the well-being of yourself and your loved ones. Knowing how to avoid a confrontation and what to do if that option isn't available offers you a sense of safety and serenity.
Each of us struggle to overcome a multitude of challenges every day.
Our mission is to not only arm you with the knowledge and skills you need to overcome these obstacles, but to also teach you how to prevent or avoid them in the first place.
Apathy & Complacency
Whether choosing not to intervene in a bad situation because it is none of our business or deciding that the neighborhood we live in does not concern us outside of our own property, disregard and lack of responsibility have become increasingly more toxic.
Declining Health & Fitness
The digital, on-demand lifestyles of today have had a negative impact on the overall physical and mental condition of the average person, causing many to experience ongoing mental and physical health issues.
Crime & Violence
Economic hardships and lack of faith in law enforcement have led to a dramatic increase in violent crime and predatory behavior, leaving many of us feeling vulnerable and unsafe.
Increased Stress & Anxiety
Many of us don't have positive, constructive outlets that allow us to relieve or minimize the pressures of every day life which can often foster poor judgment and a clouded perception of reality.
Focus & Balance
Whether at school, at home, or in the office, we are all surrounded by a myriad of distractions keeping us from being successful or maintaining balance in our increasingly more hectic lives.
Loneliness & Isolation
There are so many people in our communities that feel abandoned, alone, forgotten, or simply unappreciated. These feelings can lead to substance abuse, aggressive or destructive behavior, and all too often, thoughts of suicide.
You can transform those challenges into opportunities.
You deserve to be the best version of yourself.
Incredible conditioning and skill development
General flexibility and strength training, high energy drills, and muscular endurance are all available for Shield Academy students. Increase your balance, coordination, agility, focus, etc. We’re not training you to be a professional athlete, but if you apply yourself to the training, you will develop greater fitness and skill then you had when you started. We guarantee it.
Self-Defense against today’s threats
Many schools do a fantastic job of providing physical skills training to their students. But they may lack the different aspects of self-defense before anything gets physical, which are the most important. Shield Academy will teach you how to identify threats, legal awareness, proper use of force, avoidance, de-escalation, preventative strategies against predators, etc.
Functional and Flexible Self-Protection
Differing from self-defense, self-protection is the physical aspects of opposing dangerous adversaries. Through martial sciences, Shield Academy will provide instruction in theories, principles and applications against armed and unarmed adversaries both standing and on the ground.
Susan D.
Pricing plans
We do things differently, because different gets things done.
Private Lessons
Lessons can be personalized for the student. They allow the student to learn and progress at their own pace. They will have fewer distractions. It will improve confidence. It is more flexible in scheduling. It is a less competitive atmosphere.
Enrollment
Enrollment for Adults is open in the summer and the first two weeks of December.
Enrollment for Youth is always open.
Group Lessons
We understand the importance of group training or working with partners or a team. Our group lessons are challenging and rewarding. And they are great opportunities to meet other students.
Bartering & Trade
Most people have more to offer than just money. If you have a product or skill that could be fairly valued in trade for lessons, that would benefit Shield Academy or it’s owners, we will consider it. Like in the old days, and in hard times, food was exchanged for a service. Or one skilled trade was carried out in bartering for the completion of another. We understand the need and value of what we offer, and we know there are services and products out there that are valuable.
See what others are saying about Shield Academy.
Belong and get involved
The desire for change and difference is not enough. Action must be taken.
With Shield Academy you could participate in one or more of the 6 areas of service in local communities. Administration, education, inspiration, provision, protection and restoration. Making a difference, building real-world experience and developing life-long relationships.