Where Dorchester families learn to stand a little taller.
Swaby’s Tae Kwon Do Academy teaches kids from age three, teens and adults on Neponset Avenue. Grand Sensei Carlos Swaby and his team of instructors teach discipline, confidence and respect, one class at a time.
Classes
One school. Three classes. Every age.
Students train with others their own age and size, so a four-year-old learning to bow in and a fourteen-year-old learning to spar each get a class built for where they are.
Junior Taekwondo
First kicks, first bows, and the first time listening to a coach who isn’t mom or dad. Short drills, lots of movement, and real pride when they get it right.
Junior classes →
Kids Taekwondo
Pad work, forms and sparring in full gear. This is where kids start to see what effort earns them, one belt at a time.
Kids classes →
Teen & Adult Taekwondo
Kicking, forms, conditioning and sparring for teens and grown-ups, beginners included. A real skill and a real workout, with people who want you to get better.
Teen & adult classes →On the tournament floor
The trophy shelf keeps growing.
Swaby’s students have competed at World Martial Arts Federation tournaments and come home with trophies. These are a few of those days.
One of the only and longest lasting black owned martial arts studio in the Boston, Ma area. If you want to start the year off right, go there now!Philmore Phillip II · Google review
What the mat teaches
Kicks are the easy part.
Discipline
Bow in, line up, listen, try again. The habits are small and they add up, for a five-year-old and for a fifty-year-old.
Confidence
Breaking a board, earning a new belt, stepping up to spar for the first time. Each one is proof to a student that hard things are doable.
Community
Classes run from age three through adults, so kids, teens and parents can all train at the same school.
The instructors
The people on the mat.
Five instructors teach at Swaby’s. You’ll hear a few different titles in class: each is simply how that instructor is addressed on the mat.
- Grand SenseiCarlos SwabyLeads the school.
- MasterJulio Valdes
- SenseiJerome Harris
- SifuAbner Gerome
- SabumnimSofia Cespedes
“Swaby and his team are great! Excellent school and nice programs for all ages.”
Bobby Boyd · Google review
“Great instructor, his kids classes are great.”
Mche Montgomery · Google reviewVisit the dojang
Come try a class. It’s on us.
Your first class is free. Pick the class for your age, choose a time that works, and come meet the instructors on the mat. Wear something comfortable you can move in.
- Address172 Neponset Avenue, Dorchester, MA 02122
- Getting hereNear Stop & Shop and Murphy Middle School. Plenty of street parking.
- Call(781) 364-7027
- Emailcarlos.e.swaby14@gmail.com
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