Santa Clara Kenpo Academy
Santa Clara Kenpo Academy, 2000 Homestead Road, Ste. 2, Santa Clara, CA 95050
About
Santa Clara Kenpo Academy offers martial arts and Kenpo classes that include self-defense training, basic blocks and strikes, self defense techniques, forms, history, and daily nonphysical application. The program also offers a conditioning class as part of its training options.
• Ages: 4–18 years old
• Schedule: Evening and Saturday morning classes, with each class about 20–30 minutes long
• Price: It is a monthly fee. If you need to take a month off no problem.
Santa Clara Kenpo Academy has been serving students since 1979. The school offers group classes and individual instruction and describes Kenpo as a modern, practical, and highly effective form of martial arts. The program states that Kenpo is a style that people of different ages, sizes, gender, physical capabilities, and limitations can do, and that learning is a journey, not a race, with progress based on individual effort. It presents martial arts as a form of meditation and intellectual stimulation and emphasizes that training is not one size fits all, working with everyone to make moves work in their own way. The academy focuses on providing expert Kenpo instruction that builds unshakeable confidence and practical self-defense skills and notes that students earn their black belt there. It also highlights a supportive community of people who love and are passionate about what they do.
The head instructor and owner is Sandra Dee, also referred to as Sandra, Sandra Agonoy, Instructor Sandra, and Ms. Sandra, with Shirley serving as an assistant instructor. The instructor team includes two 7th degree, two 5th degree, three 4th degree, and one 1st degree black belts, with many years of experience in various disciplines of the martial arts. The instructors are described as skilled, caring, knowledgeable, patient, and passionate, and they are noted for keeping classes engaging and fun and wanting students to learn and have a great time. The academy is described as a high quality training facility affiliated with Mr. John Sepulveda, a direct student of Mr. Ed Parker, designer of the system.
Parent and student testimonials describe Santa Clara Kenpo Academy as not overcrowded, with a supportive and inspiring environment and a warm family atmosphere. Reviewers mention small class sizes, a friendly and safe environment to study martial arts, and a clean, inviting, friendly, and fun space. Multiple parents and students single out Sandra for her patience and for balancing discipline, humor, and teaching, and they describe her as amazing and extremely passionate about what she does. Testimonials also mention that classes are brief and effective, that kids have a blast getting a workout while learning self-defense, and that the school uses a month-to-month structure where students earn their belts. Several reviewers note long-term training at the school, including families whose children have attended for years and adults who have trained there for over five or ten years.
Last updated June 21, 2026.
• Ages: 4–18 years old
• Schedule: Evening and Saturday morning classes, with each class about 20–30 minutes long
• Price: It is a monthly fee. If you need to take a month off no problem.
Santa Clara Kenpo Academy has been serving students since 1979. The school offers group classes and individual instruction and describes Kenpo as a modern, practical, and highly effective form of martial arts. The program states that Kenpo is a style that people of different ages, sizes, gender, physical capabilities, and limitations can do, and that learning is a journey, not a race, with progress based on individual effort. It presents martial arts as a form of meditation and intellectual stimulation and emphasizes that training is not one size fits all, working with everyone to make moves work in their own way. The academy focuses on providing expert Kenpo instruction that builds unshakeable confidence and practical self-defense skills and notes that students earn their black belt there. It also highlights a supportive community of people who love and are passionate about what they do.
The head instructor and owner is Sandra Dee, also referred to as Sandra, Sandra Agonoy, Instructor Sandra, and Ms. Sandra, with Shirley serving as an assistant instructor. The instructor team includes two 7th degree, two 5th degree, three 4th degree, and one 1st degree black belts, with many years of experience in various disciplines of the martial arts. The instructors are described as skilled, caring, knowledgeable, patient, and passionate, and they are noted for keeping classes engaging and fun and wanting students to learn and have a great time. The academy is described as a high quality training facility affiliated with Mr. John Sepulveda, a direct student of Mr. Ed Parker, designer of the system.
Parent and student testimonials describe Santa Clara Kenpo Academy as not overcrowded, with a supportive and inspiring environment and a warm family atmosphere. Reviewers mention small class sizes, a friendly and safe environment to study martial arts, and a clean, inviting, friendly, and fun space. Multiple parents and students single out Sandra for her patience and for balancing discipline, humor, and teaching, and they describe her as amazing and extremely passionate about what she does. Testimonials also mention that classes are brief and effective, that kids have a blast getting a workout while learning self-defense, and that the school uses a month-to-month structure where students earn their belts. Several reviewers note long-term training at the school, including families whose children have attended for years and adults who have trained there for over five or ten years.
Last updated June 21, 2026.
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