Manners are a skill. We train them like any other — on their feet, drilled, corrected, and repeated until they belong to the child rather than to you.
One law a week. It is taught, then drilled on the mat, then carried home — because conduct that only happens in the dojo is not conduct, it is a performance. The numbering is real: each law assumes the one before it.
How you arrive. Eyes up, stand when an adult enters, use the person's name, shake a hand like you mean it.
Order and time. Early is on time. Wait your turn. Stand still when told to. Put it back where you found it.
What you say is a debt. Yes means yes. A promise is owed. The truth is told before it is found out.
Eating among people. Wait for everyone. Serve others first. No phone. Clear your place and thank whoever cooked.
Hosting and being hosted. Meet people at the door. Elders first. In someone else's house you leave it cleaner.
Conflict without cruelty. Never start it, never run from it, never enjoy it. Stand between a bully and a smaller kid.
Protocol for a device. Answer the person in the room first. Nothing in a group chat you would not say standing up.
Apology and correction. An apology with "but" in it is not an apology. Take a correction without sulking.
Behaviour taught in a gym stays in the gym unless something carries it home. Each child keeps a conduct card. Every week the law goes home as one small task; a parent initials it; and the law is sealed in red on the mat, in front of the class.
Eight seals earns the coin — struck in the academy’s mark, the size of a silver dollar, carried in a pocket rather than worn. No uniform, no belt, nothing to sew on and nothing to buy. This course is open to any child, whether or not they ever set foot in a martial-arts class.
In week one you score ten behaviours at home — greets adults, follows the first instruction, phone at the table, apologises without excuses, handles being told no.
In week eight you score the same ten again. We publish the difference and nothing else. No claims about grades, no therapy language, no promises about anyone's child. Just what parents reported, before and after.
There is no trial class and no assessment — the twelve start together on the same first Saturday, and the work begins there. Pay it in one go, or split it over months with Afterpay. Everything the course is, and everything it costs, is written on this page, so you can decide with the whole picture in front of you.
Forty years on the mat, three black belts, and one course in how a young person carries themselves. When the twelve are gone, the next cohort is eight weeks away.
TAKE A SEAT — $299