Society For Martial Arts Instruction

This is an incredible dojo with warm, strong, kind, interested, and engaged Sensei. I have been taking classes there for around 2 years and I have been amazed at my growth. Shihan Michelle is one of the most honest, straight forward (and bad ass) people around and she really cares about teaching and making martial artists out of her students. This dojo is truly a community built on kindness and karate.
In response to the lost kid, I see no reason why Shihan Michelle would not be nonplussed about the issue, I too would be confused if something like that happened (Les, you did mean to use the word with it’s proper definition, yes?). I would bet Shihan was also upset and concerned and immediately addressed and fixed the problem so that something like that can never happen again — because that is the kind of person she is and business she runs.
This is a great place that I feel lucky to have found.

I am not an SFMAI student, but my martial arts club is one of the groups that trains there, and we love it. Shihan Michelle has been very supportive of our efforts to revive and promote the «lost» 19^th-​century martial art of Bartitsu. The staff couldn’t be nicer or more helpful. I would certainly recommend SFMAI to anyone interested in learning martial arts and self-​defense in a positive enviroment of self-​improvement, respect, discipline, and confidence-​building.