Elisabeth started her training in kickboxing classes, quickly joining the Advanced Kickboxing class where her martial arts skills started to excel. After 9 months of kickboxing, she decided to join her husband's martial arts classes where she could be offered more of a ch all enge. Within 3 Short Years, Elisabeth was able to take home multiple 1st place finishes in her Sparring Division (fighting) on the regional tournament circuit, and claim the rank of 1st Degree Black Belt. Elisabeth is now taking her communication skills from her Marketing Management experience and Martial Arts knowledge in a new direction, thus creating our NEW Empower Program. Her goal--to help women find a new and comfortable training environment where they will receive the necessary information they need to lead safe lives!

Leslie is a great contributing member of the Stillwater community. She has been in the teaching field for many years, focusing mostly on pre-school age children. After sitting in the lobby for a year watching her kid's karate classes, she decided that joining in and making karate a family sport was the obvious decision. After another year of taking Advanced Kickboxing she decided to try her hand at karate and has excelled to reaching the level of 1st Degree Black Belt. Since receiving her Black Belt Leslie has explored teaching the martial arts; she is one of our Kickboxing Instructors as well as an assistant in our Lil' Dragons Program teaching Life Skills. Her passion for helping women makes Leslie a natural fit for helping to teach our EMPOWER classes.