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.
U.S. Center for SafeSport Certification: What Coaches Need and How Long It Takes
Parents who walk into a martial arts academy are trusting the adults on the mat with their children. One of the clearest ways to show that trust is earned is abuse prevention training. That is why U.S. Center for SafeSport training is Pillar 2 of the Academy Safe 8...
Introducing the Academy Safe Affiliate Program: Help Make Martial Arts Safer and Earn While You Do It
Here is a hard truth about martial arts: most parents have no idea who is actually on the mat with their child. They assume the instructors have had background checks. They assume someone has trained the staff on how to protect kids. They assume there are rules about...
How to Check Your Child’s Martial Arts Instructor
Short answer: You can check a martial arts instructor in about ten minutes using free public registries. In the United States, search the instructor's full name on the National Sex Offender Public Website (NSOPW). In Canada, check the RCMP High-Risk Child Sex Offender...
Make Safety the Standard in Your Academy
