The Martial Arts Safety Registry that empowers parents to find safer martial arts schools and helps academies build trust through verified safety standards.
How Academy Safe Works
A simple, proactive approach to creating safer academies
Learn
Understand age-appropriate safety education, boundaries, and warning signs for athletes and families.
Implement
Apply clear policies and best practices that support a professional, child-safe academy culture.
Protect
Choose Your Path
Resources designed specifically for parents and for academy leaders
For Parents
You want your child to train in a safe environment.
Academy Safe gives parents the knowledge to understand appropriate coaching behavior, recognize red flags, and choose academies that prioritize child safety.
For Coaches & Gym Owners
Great coaching goes beyond technique.
Academy Safe helps academies establish professional standards, educate staff, and reduce risk while building trust with families.
Why Academy Safe Exists
Our mission is rooted in prevention, education, and trust
Martial arts should be a place of growth, discipline, and confidence, not confusion or fear.
Academy Safe was created to help families and academies protect children through education, transparency, and proactive safety practices.
Protecting the Mat
Insights for parents, coaches, and academy owners on safety, professionalism, and youth development in martial arts.
Become an Academy Safe Ambassador: Share the 8 Pillars of Protection With Your Community
Students, parents, coaches, academy owners and supporters already share their martial arts life with friends and followers online. The Academy Safe martial arts ambassador program gives anyone who wants to help a way to use that voice for something bigger: helping...
Kids Martial Arts Safety Checklist: What a Safe Gym Should Have
Most parents can tell within a few minutes whether a martial arts gym feels welcoming. Telling whether it is safe takes a little more. This kids martial arts safety checklist gives you a short, practical list of what a safe gym should have, what to ask on a trial...
How to Verify a Black Belt: Checking Your Child’s Instructor’s Rank and Lineage
A belt on the wall says a lot about an instructor, but it does not prove much on its own. If you want to know how to verify a black belt before you enroll your child, the answer is lineage: who promoted the instructor, when, and whether that record can be checked....
Make Safety the Standard in Your Academy
