Christian Karate Classes Summer 2024

Christian Karate for All Ages!

Homeschool Resource Center

307 S. Parsons Ave.

Brandon, 33511

Big discounts for families and multiple classes per week!

Christian Karate for All Ages!

Summer Semester Information

Summer Registration Info:

Classes meet on Mondays from 6-7 PM and/or Fridays from 1:30-2:30 PM (higher ranked students stay until 3:00 on Fridays)

Summer Karate Information:

Two Options:

April 29th start date (15 classes total)

Start April 29th -August 12th for 15 weeks total (Monday class) no class Memorial Day

Start May 3rd-August 16th for 15 weeks total (Friday) no class the Friday before Memorial Day

$160 for the semester. A uniform is included for new students

Non-HEAT members add $25

June Start Date (11 classes total)

Begins June 3rd -August 12th (Monday Class)

or

June 7th - August 16th (Friday Class)

$125 for the semester (includes uniform for new students)

Family Discount Program (must be immediate family living in same household)

1st student- regular price

2nd student- regular price

3rd student- 1/2 price

4th student FREE

5th student 1/2 price

If you want to attend both Monday and Friday, the 2nd day is 1/2 price!

Summer Punch Card!

Purchase a Karate Summer Punch Card! You can attend 10 classes from April 29th -August 16th on either Monday evening or Friday afternoon for only $120! Family discount plan applies!

Family Discount Program (must be immediate family living in same household)

1st student- regular price

2nd student- regular price

3rd student and 5th student- 1/2 price

4th student FREE

You may pay via PayPal, drop payment by the Homeschool Resource Center or mail to Tampa Bay HEAT, 1011 Knowles Rd. Brandon, 33511.

MORE: We are excited to host Paladin Karate to the Homeschool Resource Center! They are a Christian program. Paladin is often called 'karate' because any more most people know what that means: fighting with the hands and feet. This is an all-inclusive, all age-group, all ranks together setting with boys and girls, men and women, white thru black belt mixture involving training in forms or kata, one-step sparring, free sparring, bag-work, board-breaking, rolls and falls, throws and take-downs, escapes and evasions, weapons disarms, improvised weapons, and role-playing self-defense scenarios for spontaneous training.

Instructor Bio:

Jon Touchton was a Tampa street cop for over 25 years and has taught martial arts (karate) and self-defense for 28. He is a 4th-degree black belt in American Karate (explained above) mixed with learning in Krav Maga and jujitsu and the experience that has come from a number of real fights while working as a police officer.

 I went to high school and college in Pensacola where I tutored math from lower grades to college-level while getting a B.S. in physics and a B.A. and Masters in history.  From there I went into the CIA where I worked undercover for some years across the globe. It was in Washington, D.C. that I first began to study the martial arts. Following that service, I came to Tampa to teach karate professionally which I did for some years before joining TPD. I worked for 9 years on the midnight shift in high crime areas, from which I carry the physical scars of my real-life encounters with killers and thugs, including a bullet in my shoulder and the scars of having had staples in my head twice. I balanced my career in such ways that enhanced and benefited my family. I have two grown stepsons and a young adult son of my own, also a black-belt. My son is a wedding videographer and film-maker, and my wife is a retired Christian school pre-school teacher. 

 Paladin Karate is a passion and I believe can be a great outreach and good thing for those seeking eclectic karate training, straight-up and effective and often simple self-defense and personal-protection skills, a good after-school program for kids, a platform for learning sensible self-defense and personal-protection for those in the corporate world, or simply a good family-oriented activity to do together while also offering tough and realistic self-defense training for all ages.

--Jon Touchton