Coached classes for kids, first-timers and long-term members, seven days a week in Cedar Park, Texas. Every session has a beginner lane, and your first class is free.
Four coached tracks, each with a beginner lane, a skills block and a live round you can opt out of. Kids and adults train in separate groups.
Short drills, clear rules and a lot of repetition. Our kids classes teach balance, escapes and control before anything competitive, and every group is split by age so nobody trains above their size.
Ironroot is a single-floor training center in Cedar Park, Texas with 3,400 square feet of mats, a six-bag striking wall and a desk that answers the phone. We are not a fight team with a beginner class attached. The beginner lane is the front door, and most of the room came through it.
Classes are capped so coaches can watch every pair. Technique is broken into three parts and drilled slowly before the pace goes up. If you want to compete, two coaches will corner you. If you never want to compete, nobody will ask twice.
Coached · Clean · Capped
Every technique is broken into three parts and drilled slowly before the pace goes up.
Mats are cleaned between every class and the equipment is replaced on a schedule, not when it fails.
More than half our members walked in with none. The beginner lane exists for exactly that.
Coaches keep a simple skill sheet, so you always know the next thing you are working on.
Three full-time coaches and four assistants. Credentials below are illustrative for this demo build.
Jiu-Jitsu
Head Jiu-Jitsu Coach
Dario built the eight-week beginner lane that most of our adult members start in. He teaches position before submission, checks in with every pair during a round, and would rather you drill one escape well than collect ten.
Muay Thai and Boxing
Striking Coach
Kiet runs the pad rounds and sets the contact level before gloves go on. His footwork drills feel simple for two weeks, then quietly fix your balance.
Kids Program
Kids Program Lead
Renna writes the monthly plan for every kids group and trains the assistants. Loud in the warm up, quiet in the technique block, which is why six-year-olds stay with it.
Four coached classes a day, six days a week, with the kids block in the late afternoon and the adult rooms early and late.
Ironroot Martial Arts
Weekly Board
Class Times
Kids, beginner and mixed classes, seven days a week
Mon to Fri 6:00 AM to 9:00 PM
Sat 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Jiu-Jitsu Fundamentals
Kids Jiu-Jitsu
Muay Thai Basics
Gi Jiu-Jitsu
Boxing Conditioning
Kids Jiu-Jitsu
Wrestling Basics
No-Gi Jiu-Jitsu
Jiu-Jitsu Fundamentals
Kids Jiu-Jitsu
Muay Thai Pads
Gi Jiu-Jitsu
Open Mat
Kids Jiu-Jitsu
Mixed Rounds
Sparring Class
Jiu-Jitsu Fundamentals
Kids Jiu-Jitsu
Boxing Footwork
Open Mat
Kids Jiu-Jitsu
No-Gi Jiu-Jitsu
Muay Thai Basics
Open Mat
Closed for cleaning
Times shift around holidays and grading weeks, and the Thursday sparring class is invitation only. Call the desk to confirm before your first visit.
Ask the Front DeskBooking a free class takes about two minutes and commits you to nothing. Here is exactly what happens after you send it.
Tell us your age group and whether you want grappling, striking or both. We will name the two classes that fit.
Call the desk or send the form. We reply the same day with a time and what to bring, which is very little.
Arrive fifteen minutes ahead. A coach walks you around the floor, shows you the mats and answers the awkward questions.
Take the class, stay for a chat, then decide. Nobody signs anything on the first night at Ironroot.
Reviews are illustrative for this demo, written to show how the layout carries long and short quotes side by side.
My daughter started at seven and could not stand still for a minute. Two years on she runs the warm up for the little group. Coaches never raised a voice, they just kept handing her one small thing to fix each week. We came for self defence and got a kid who finishes what she starts.
The 6:00 AM class means I train before work and my evenings stay mine. The plan is already on the board when I walk in tired, so I never have to think about what we are drilling. Eighteen months here and no injury layoff, which never happened at the last gym.
The contact level gets said out loud before every round, and the coach holds the room to it. That one habit is why I still drive across town three nights a week.
Forty-six, and I had never trained anything in my life. The beginner lane meant nobody could hurt me by accident while I learned to fall, frame and breathe. I joined the main round in week nine.
If the answer you need is not here, the desk will give you a straight one on the phone.
No. Most people who book a free class have never trained. Adults start in an eight-week beginner lane and kids are grouped by age, so your first session is with people at the same point you are.
Shorts or leggings and a fitted t-shirt. Bring a water bottle and leave jewellery at home. Gloves, wraps and a loaner uniform are at the desk for your first month at no charge.
Our youngest group starts at five. Classes run 45 minutes and are split into two age bands so a five-year-old is never partnered with an eleven-year-old.
Only if you choose to. Live rounds are optional in every adult class, and sparring is a separate invitation-only session. Competition is something we support, not something we expect.
Yes. Holds are available in monthly blocks for travel, injury or work, and we do not charge a fee to restart. Ask the desk and it is done the same day.
There are thirty free spaces in front of the unit and two showers with lockers. Towels are not provided, so bring your own if you are heading straight to work.
Call the desk, walk in during open hours, or send the form and we will reply the same day with a class time that fits.
Phone
Open hours