Silva Taekwondo

Mr. Silva has been such an excellent teacher! My son has learned so much from his class and I am very happy with the way class is given. Mr. Silva pays much attention to every student and is very much dedicated to his job, he’s also very understanding!

My daughter was in this school would of been two years next month. Mr. Silvas kicked my daughter out of his school over a heated disagreement about my him not allowing my daughter to compete in a tournament because she missed some practices for the month. I was upset because he led me to believe it was up to me if I wanted her to compete or not I just needed to pay by that Fri a week before the tournament to avoid paying a $ 10 extra late fee. So I texted him to confirm if the tournament was that week. Yes it was late it was a little after 11pm I didn’t think it would be a big deal but he called talking crazy talking about all kind of stuff other then the subject in matter. I then started to talk about all things that I didn’t like about his program. Every time I would have a concern about my daughter he would always respond defensively and angry. I would always except this behaviour and try over look it and think about Shirayah. The first 6 months he kept partnering my daughter with a girl almost half her size. Until my daughter got too big and past her in belts with in 9mths. He tends to partner up my daughter with the same student. I have requested repeatedly to partner my daughter with a variety of students including boys so my daughter can be challenged or pushed to her highest potential, but he would always get defensive about as usual.
Mr. Silva’s is a arrogant man that pretends not to speak English very well and that he doesn’t understand you. But he texts likes a girl and Argues like a BITCH because he doesn’t let you express your opinion or addresses any of your concerns he will just over talk you and try to make you feel that you don’t know what your talking about. He kicked my daughter without any remorse and trying to resolve our differences. My daughter made it too a blue belt. I confronted him for passing my daughter to a blue belt in her last testing because I felt it was her worse test ever and I didn’t believe she deserved to be passed. He tends to spend allot of time with the older kids and he needs assistance because his class size is starting too get to big for him to pay attention to details of your child individually. I feel a parent should be able to ask questions, make request or address their concerns about any sport or program you are paying for your child to be in. It doesn’t mean that all request will be addressed but at least acknowledge them and make me feel that you value my business. If you want to do that then this is not the school for you. Everybody has disagreements but we are all adults and we should be able to work out our differences in spite for the sake of the child. After repeatedly apologizing he still would not except my daughter back she even cried in front of him and he still refuse to take her back. That is a thoughtless man. And shows that he is not really invested in his students if he can through them away like trash

Great program! Definitely teaches our children to be disciplined, respectful and to always get up and try again. Some kids will like it, some won’t, but give it a try. Some kids are really shy and scared at first, but learn that it’s not a scary sport, on the contrary it’s meant to teach you to not be scared, and to be confident.
As for the negative review IRAQ W.
My son was in the program for 8 years, from yellow to black belt (they have moved locations twice so the program has been around for a while, so he does know what he is doing). It is a known rule that if you miss practices, you probably won’t be able to compete. Why? Because that is the point of the sport, to be disciplined and responsible. You can’t be fully ready to compete if you don’t train enough/​properly.
Then you got upset with him because he moved up your child, when you didn’t think she deserved it, I don’t even know you, but by the sound of it, sounds like you would have also had an issue if he didn’t advance her. As you also complained that he teamed her up with someone taller. That happens all the time, the other person might be smaller, taller, skinnier, heavier… And sometimes it will be the same person. Your child just needs to learn to be ready and fight.
He is a professional and great teacher, yes he might be hard on the kids at times, but that is the point, to push them to be better. It’s a self defense class not ballet. His business is growing, why? Because he is good at what he does, so I’m sure he didn’t need unnecessary drama.
–Ms. De Leon

Our son had a wonderful introduction to Taekwondo thanks to Silva Taekwondo. Mr. Silva & has entire family are very passionate about what they do. Our son was there 2 – 3 times per week for nearly a year. This was the first activity he stuck with for longer than a month (he is only 6 years old!) and this was largely due to the wonderful way Mr. Silva balanced the discipline TKDo instills with his friendly yet firm instruction method. The reason we stopped going was the drive was too long from West LA. We tried a new place much closer to us but since then we have not kept up with TKDo.
We are very thankful for all the great work Mr. Silva and his family did for our son!

At Mr Silva Taekwondo, we’ve designed our program with your family in mind. Training in the martial arts beginning at a young age helps develop critical factors needed for happiness and success: discipline, fitness, mental rigor, love of learning — and fun.