Ms. Sara Kuntz has been shaping lives on the mat for 15 years, bringing the kind of insight that only comes from lived experience. As a 4th Degree Black Belt and a former competitive athlete in both soccer and gymnastics, she understands how physical training builds the whole person and not just the body. What drives her most is personal: having navigated ADHD herself, Sara knows firsthand what it means to struggle with focus and self-discipline, and she has made it her mission to give every student the same breakthrough martial arts gave her.
Ms. Kuntz specializes in adult training, exercise science-informed curriculum, and inclusive teaching methods that reach every kind of learner, from competitive athletes to students who’ve never set foot on a mat.
Designs comprehensive workouts and training plans
Uses “disguised repetition”
Adapts instruction across auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learning styles
Guides students through real, measurable transformation
Teaching philosophy
Sara’s approach starts with a question most instructors don’t ask: how does this particular student learn best? Drawing on her background in exercise science and her years on the national competitive circuit (NASKA/NAFMA, 2017–2020), she builds classes that are purposeful without being rigid. Her signature method, disguised repetition, keeps students engaged while quietly cementing the technique, the discipline, and the muscle memory they need to grow.
She taps into all three learning modes: talking students through a concept, showing them what it looks like, and getting them moving so the body can do what the mind sometimes can’t. But beneath the method is something more personal. Sara came to martial arts carrying the same struggles many of her students walk through the door with: a restless mind, a difficulty sitting still, a quiet uncertainty about whether she could really do this. Martial arts answered that question for her, and now she dedicates every class to answering it for someone else. For Sara, the most meaningful moment isn’t the belt ceremony. It’s watching a student who arrived scattered and unsure walk off the mat calm, focused, and proud.
