Park Ridge, IL -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/10/2015 -- Character Martial Arts, a family martial arts studio offering classes for everyone ages 4 and up, is now open at 17 North Prospect Avenue. Offering character-building taekwondo classes for children and calorie-burning Thai kickboxing instruction for adults, Character Martial Arts provides fun, engaging ways for people of all ages to lose weight, get in better shape, gain confidence, and acquire effective self-defense skills. Running through the month of February, a $99 grand opening special makes it easy and affordable to get started at Character Martial Arts, and the initial response to the new studio has been extremely enthusiastic.

"We're excited to be opening our brand new martial arts school and fitness facility right here in Park Ridge," Character Martial Arts head instructor Regis Tribbet said, "With our first classes now underway and many eager students already enrolled, we can say that Character Martial Arts is well on its way to becoming a valued and important part of the community."

Even twenty years ago often fairly exotic-seeming to most Americans, martial arts of many sorts have since become a much-appreciated part of everyday life. Child development experts point to martial arts like taekwondo and others as excellent ways of helping children learn discipline, self-confidence, and respect for others while also establishing valuable lifelong fitness habits. Adults, too, can easily benefit from learning and practicing martial arts, as with Thai kickboxing sessions that can help to burn as many as 800 calories an hour through entertaining, exciting, safe sparring sessions.

Character Martial Arts was founded to help provide the entire family the whole range of what martial arts can offer. The new studio's taekwondo classes, detailed at http://www.charactermartialarts.com/kids-tae-kwon-do/, have children as young as four learning the disciplined movements and strikes of the modern Korean martial art, becoming fitter and more confident with every class. Character Martial Arts also offers a full line of kickboxing classes aimed at adults, instilling proven, real-world self-defense skills in ways that lead quickly and directly to weight loss and better overall fitness.

In celebration of the studio's grand opening, Character Martial Arts has made available, for a limited time, an unbeatable special offer. For only $99, new students will be entitled to unlimited group classes for four weeks, a free private lesson, and a waived registration fee, itself normally $99. The package is valued at $330 at regular pricing, making this time-limited deal an incredible opportunity.

More information about the special offer and an online sign-up form can be found at http://www.charactermartialarts.com/special-offer/, and Character Martial Arts' class options and schedules are described in full at http://www.charactermartialarts.com

About Character Martial Arts
Leading the whole family to better fitness, improved self-confidence, and greater discipline, Character Martial Arts provides fun, engaging children's taekwondo classes and expert, motivating adult kickboxing instruction in a conveniently located facility at 17 North Prospect Avenue in Park Ridge, Ill.