Tae Kwon Do Unlimited was started in 1997 to support families and children in Cottonwood, Arizona. It's foundation came from the Jhoon Rhee Institute, with a curriculum that stresses positive community values, it quickly became leader in instructional activities for kids in the area. I t is currently at an all time high enrollment and continues to grow each week.
TKD Unlimited is dedicated on providing the highest quality of martial arts training. With an instructional staff that has over 20 years of experience in the martial arts, students receive
quality training and support in all TKD activities including the regular program, competition program, and summer program. Our Mission is to provide a fitness center that teaches Positive Relationships, Self-Discipline, Self-Confidence, and Self-Respect. We offer safe supervised and well instructed classes for all ages. Tae Kwon Do Unlimited provides several distinct advantages which sets us apart from all other martial arts locations in the area. We have the most classes of any school. Our schedule is flexible to allow students to regularly attend classes despite a busy schedule. We have the large facility with the latest in safety and training equipment. The facility was custom built for Tae Kwon Do training. Most importantly, Mr. Labarda teaches martial arts as his full time profession, not as a sideline. Because of this full time dedication and attention to detail, we are able to offer the most services and return the most value for students who train with us.
Besides being fun, the benefits of martial arts are tremendous: increased self-confidence, energy, strength, stamina, and improved mental capacity. Martial Artists also report reduced stress levels, fewer physical injuries and illness, and a strengthened immune system.
Our emphasis is in establishing discipline in you through the two fundamental martial arts training principles of attention & respect. Both attention (standing perfectly upright and still while listening to the instructor) and respect (bowing as a symbol of acknowledgment) are developed in a student through mental focus and physiology.
We build confidence and character by providing the student with control over his or her body and an ability to stand up to negative pressure and other intimidating situations. The movements involved in our system develop coordination and increase strength and flexibility, which is very important during the growth years. Our martial arts ballet training, the display of martial arts moves to music, develops concentration and timing.
The awarding of the higher levels of Tae Kwon Do belts gives the student a sense of achievement and accomplishment. The importance of this is that it develops the principle of goal setting. We work on each student's immediate, short term, and long term goals, which the student will be able to apply to other areas in life and carry with him/her into the future.
Our Tae Kwon Do also involves free-style competition. This helps develop a sense of sportsmanship in a controlled and competitive situation. The foundation of Tae Kwon Do is its self-defense value. We are very careful to teach students that Tae Kwon Do is not to be used outside the Tae Kwon Do school in any matter other than in true self-defense.
Today, Tae Kwon Do is practiced worldwide in more than 162 countries. Tae Kwon Do is one of the most recognized and respected martial arts systems in the world. We believe strongly in the value of Tae Kwon Do instruction for all age levels, especially for the young. Tae Kwon Do emphasizes the disciplines of attention and respect; 
concentration and timing; strength and flexibility; goal setting; achievement and accomplishment; sportsmanship, confidence, character and, of course, FUN!
Our program is beneficial to the whole family and is designed to enable family members to focus and concentrate on achieving worthwhile goals and to meet life’s challenges with total confidence.
Our objective is to provide a fun-filled and positive learning environment for all our students that will enhance the
development of basic good habits such as paying attention, following directions, cooperating with others, respect for self and others, self-control and self-discipline.
Tae Kwon Do Unlimited is owned and operated by the Labarda Family. The Labarda’s have lived in the Verde Valley for the past 30 years.