Booth's ATA Martial Arts

This place is a scam, the "Hard work" everyone is talking about is just doing warmups for a workout that never comes. Then you sit around doing dumb exercises that seem like you are doing something, but in reality, it won't help in fighting, Karate, weight loss, or physical goals of any kind. Not only that, you spend the class doing things like talking about fire safety and how not to get kidnapped? Not your job to teach that. Their job is supposed to be a martial arts gym, that teaches you real discipline and respect. They are not up front about fees and membership prices. Very disappointing. If you want to check this place out, which I suggest very strongly not to, find out all the things you have to buy, as well as the EXTRA things you have to buy. If I could rate this a 0-star, I would.

My young son took lessons here. He learned respect for others and got to the point where he broke a piece of wood with a chop of his hand. He was 7! He grew so much more confident! Also took a group of teen students here for a class on self-defense and street smarts. It was excellent! Mr. Booth packed in the information and they practiced the moves too. The students left empowered. Can’t say enough good about this dojo.

Almost a year ago we transferred from Provo ATA to this location. We loved the program and my son really enjoyed the classes. We met with Mr Booth about working my son toward a black belt a few months ago and we were ready to move forward. The tuition was estimated to be roughly $600 a month! We were so shocked to hear that an extra 30 minutes per class would more than triple our current price. Mr Booth must have seen the shock and stated “oh I forgot your son is a transfer student so it’s half of that”. I shared my son was interested in doing other sports and what if we wanted to leave the program during that time, is there a holding fee or anything we should know. I was told we needed to give notice and would then be charged an additional month but if we returned at any time, the “scholarship” would be voided and we would be expected to pay $600 monthly. We thought maybe it would be worth it to keep paying through seasonal sports. Well, here I am. Unfortunately leaving this 1star review after months of my calls, emails, and texts being ignored. My son has wanted to peruse other sports and coming from a split household the other parent has stopped paying their half, it didn’t make sense to continue. We finally went in person to discuss cancellation where immediately upon meeting with Mr Booth he asked why we didn’t want our son to succeed, were being manipulative and that they “don’t do cancellations”. It was shared that this has become a financial burden and the response was “pre-pay, use credit cards, find another source of payment.” This clearly shows that this facility does not care about you or your children, only money. I suggest finding another taekwondo studio in the area. Don’t get taken advantage of by Mr Booth.