Youth Ninjutsu Training Newbury Park

Youth Martial Arts: Shinobi-Tai Training

A ninja movement program for kids and teens ages 9–15

Help your child build coordination, confidence, awareness, and movement skills they can use for life.

Shinobi-Tai teaches youth how to fall safely, recover quickly, move around obstacles, evade pressure, and build better control of their bodies.

Andrew Stringfellow combines more than 30 years of gymnastics coaching with more than 30 years of martial arts training to teach movement, discipline, confidence, and practical self-protection.

Move safely

Solve problems

BUILD confidence

Our youth martial arts program helps kids and teens build coordination, confidence, awareness, discipline, and practical self-protection skills. Instead of focusing on tournaments, students learn how to move safely, stay calm under pressure, work with partners, and make better choices in real life.

How to enroll

Shinobi-Tai runs Monday through Thursday, 4:00–5:30pm, for ages 9–15. Students train twice a week, on either a Monday/Wednesday or a Tuesday/Thursday track.

  1. Send us a message using the form below. Tell us your child’s age and anything we should know about them.

  2. We’ll get back to you, answer your questions, and help you choose the track that fits your week.

  3. When you’re ready, we’ll enroll your child and set their first class.

 

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Youth students learn practical movement, balance, falling safely, awareness, confidence, discipline, body control, and age-appropriate self-protection.

    Combat Body Mechanics youth training focuses on helping kids understand how their bodies work and how to make safer choices.

  • Combat Body Mechanics is not focused on tournaments or sport fighting. Youth students learn martial arts principles, movement, awareness, and self-protection skills that help them build coordination, confidence, and discipline without relying on competition as the main goal.

  • No. Students do not need to be athletic to start.

    The program helps kids build coordination, balance, strength, agility, and body awareness over time.

  • Yes. Shinobi-tai training can help students build confidence by giving them practical skills, physical awareness, and repeated experiences of learning difficult things.

    Confidence grows when kids understand what to do and see themselves improving.

    Just ask the kids who started training with us 10-20 years ago. We are consistently stopped in the neighborhood by former students who want to thank us for teaching them body mechanics in their youth.

  • Yes. Our instructors have extensive experience teaching and coaching young people. Andrew Stringfellow has spent more than 30 years coaching gymnastics, working with students of different ages, learning styles, personalities, and ability levels. That background shapes the way we teach youth martial arts: with patience, structure, clear expectations, and attention to each student’s physical and emotional development.

  • No. We teach control, awareness, discipline, and decision-making. Students learn that physical skills come with responsibility and should be used to stay safe, not to intimidate others.