SCS Martial Arts and Fitness

09/18/2026

🥋 GUESS THE BLACK BELT! 🥋

We’re starting something fun at SCS. 👀

We’ve blacked out one of our SCS Black Belts… think you know who it is?

🥋 Who is this mystery Black Belt?
🥋 BONUS: What degree Black Belt is he?
🥋 SUPER BONUS: How long do you think he’s been training?

Drop your guesses in the comments! 👇

If you already know the answer… 🤫 DON’T RUIN IT! 😂 Give everyone else a chance to play.

We’ll reveal our mystery Black Belt soon!

And here’s your hint: he’s been on these mats for a LONG time. ❤️🥋

09/17/2026

NOTICE OF ROAD CLOSURE - Please note that Main Street, between Santa Rosa Avenue/Daphne Elementary School and Dryer Avenue, will be CLOSED for the Daphne High School Trojans Homecoming Parade on Thursday, September 17, 2026. Road closures will begin around 5:45 for the 6:00 PM parade start time and will close following the parade's conclusion.

Please join them for their Homecoming Pep Rally as the parade ends in front of Daphne City Hall! Gooooo Trojans! 💜💛🏈

09/17/2026

09/17/2026

🥋 Meet Mr. Rick.

He’s 77 years young. A Vietnam veteran. A Black Belt. And one of those people who quietly reminds all of us what strength really looks like.

Mr. Rick shows up at the dojo 2–3 times every week without fail. He trains hard, takes care of his wife, encourages the people around him, and somehow always walks through the door with a smile.

And if it’s blueberry season? There’s a pretty good chance he’s showing up with blueberries for us, too. 🫐❤️

A knee replacement in the last couple of years didn’t convince him to stop moving. He recovered — and kept training.

I think there’s a lesson in that for all of us.

We spend so much time looking for the secret to staying young, strong and capable.

Maybe part of the secret is simply refusing to stop moving.

Keep showing up.
Keep learning.
Keep challenging your body and your mind.
Keep having something that gets you out the door and around people who are happy to see you.

At 77, Mr. Rick is still putting on his Black Belt and stepping onto the mat.

And he inspires the heck out of us. ❤️🥋

If you know Mr. Rick, tell us your favorite Mr. Rick story in the comments. We have a feeling there are some good ones. 🫐❤️

Keep showing up. Keep moving. That’s the secret to staying young.

09/15/2026

Okay, this 80s trend was basically MADE for us. 😂🥋

Shihan’s martial arts journey actually began in the 1980s.

And technically… mine did too. Just from the seating area. 😂

My brother and sister were the ones training, and I spent A LOT of time sitting on the sidelines watching them. I had absolutely no idea that all those hours in a martial arts school would eventually lead to martial arts becoming such a huge part of my own life.

Years later, Shihan and I would build SCS together, raise our kids in the dojo, teach thousands of classes, and spend more than two decades building this crazy, wonderful martial arts family.

It’s funny how our stories started.

His started on the mat.

Mine started sitting beside it. ❤️

And somehow, all these years later, here we are.

Although I do feel like we seriously missed an opportunity with the 80s hair. 😂

And since we’re going full 80s, we need your help! 🎶

We’re putting together a fun 80s dojo playlist for next week.

🎸 Shihan’s pick: Van Halen
🕺 Mine: Michael Jackson

What’s YOUR favorite 80s song or group?

Drop it in the comments! 👇 I want to see what kind of playlist our SCS family can build. ❤️🥋

09/14/2026

This one got me. ❤️🥋

There’s something really special about watching a dad step onto the mat because his little boy is doing karate.

Not sitting on the sidelines. Not just dropping him off. Doing it with him.

He’s showing his son that learning new things can be hard, that it’s okay to be a beginner, and that sometimes the best way to encourage your child is to stand right beside them and try too.

And this little guy’s face says everything. 🥹

These are the moments I love most about what we do at SCS. We get to watch families make memories together, grow together, and sometimes discover that karate isn’t just something the kids do.

It becomes their thing.

We are so grateful they chose our dojo to be part of their story. ❤️

Families that kick together, stick together. 🥋

09/14/2026

A little quick info about something you may have noticed on our page. ❤️🥋

A lot of the photos we share publicly are AI enhanced, altered, or sometimes completely AI generated.

And there’s actually a very intentional reason for that.

We want to protect our kids.

We live in a world where we share so much online. Where our kids go. What activities they participate in. What days they’re there. Who their friends are. What they look like. Sometimes even where they’ll be next.

When you put enough little pieces together, it can become a whole lot of information about a child and their family.

At SCS, we try to be careful about that.

We LOVE sharing what happens inside our dojo. We’re proud of these kids, their accomplishments, the friendships they build and the incredible moments we get to witness.

But we don’t believe every one of those moments needs to be shared publicly with the entire internet.

That’s why our SCS families have a separate private, non-Facebook community where we can share dojo information, updates and more photos. Families can then decide what they are comfortable sharing from there.

When we do share publicly, sometimes we’ll enhance a photo, change identifying details, blur people in the background, or use AI to recreate the feeling of a moment without putting the actual child out there.

Is it perfect? Nope. Sometimes AI gives us an extra finger or does something completely ridiculous. 😂 But I’d rather laugh about an AI karate kid with six fingers than unnecessarily put one of our real kids at risk.

Because once a picture is on the internet, we lose a lot of control over where it goes and how someone else might use it.

The last thing we would ever want is for a photo of one of our students to be taken and used in a way that is harmful, inappropriate or downright despicable.

So if some of our photos look a little different, now you know why.

We’re still sharing the heart of SCS. ❤️

We’re just trying to be thoughtful about protecting the people who make SCS what it is.

Safe. Confident. Strong. 🥋

09/14/2026

Parents, here’s something I wish more people understood about martial arts. 🥋❤️

The kicking and punching is actually the easy part.

What we’re really teaching kids is how to walk into a room when they’re nervous. How to listen when there are distractions around them. How to try something they aren’t immediately good at. How to hear a correction without falling apart. And how to keep working when something is HARD.

Those are skills that follow them right back out our doors.

Into school. Friendships. Sports. Eventually jobs and adulthood.

After more than 20 years of teaching martial arts in Baldwin County, those are still the moments that mean the most to me — watching a kid who once said “I can’t” suddenly realize that maybe they can. ❤️

If you’ve wondered whether martial arts might be a good fit for your child, come see us.

We’ll show you around, let your child experience an introductory lesson, and you can see for yourself what makes SCS different.

🥋 Ages 7+
📍 Daphne
❤️ Beginner friendly
👨‍👩‍👧 Families are always welcome to watch

Learn more or request an introductory lesson at teamscsdaphne.com

Safe. Confident. Strong.