Free Taster Class
Curious about Taekwondo or Kickboxing? Whether you’re looking to build confidence, improve fitness or pick up a new skill, there’s no better place to start than our free taster lessons.
With a legacy that stretches back to 1993, our team have been delivering top-quality martial arts tuition to both children and adults across Glasgow and Ayrshire. Since opening our full-time centre in 2018, we’ve helped hundreds of people grow stronger, sharper and more focused, both on and off the mats.
No experience needed
Friendly, professional instructors
Ages 4 and up and all fitness levels welcome
Ready to give it a go? Enquire using the form below and book your free trial lesson, we’d love for you to come try it out!
Meet your instructors
John Reilly
Master Johnny Reilly is the founder and chief instructor at RAM Martial Arts Academy.
Master Reilly started Taekwon-Do in 1989, achieving his black belt in 1993 he began teaching and had a very successful competitive career before retiring in 2011.
He has been involved in the Scotland National team since then as a competitor, umpire and is now the national team head coach.
Kirsty Reilly
Kirsty Reilly began training in 1998 achieving her black belt in 2002.
A regular member of the Scotland women’s team, Kirsty has won multiple medals at international competitions.
Kirsty has a passion for fitness training outside of Taekwon-Do and regularly takes the classes to push the members to their limits.
Malky White
Malky White began his training with Master Reilly in 2011, achieving his black belt in 2014.
Since then he has been involved in the national team mainly as a competitor before transitioning to a coaching role in 2023 for both Taekwon-Do and Kickboxing.
Malky holds black belts in Taekwon-Do and Kickboxing as well as training in other martial arts such as Brazilian Jiu jitsu, judo, boxing and MMA.
FAQs
Anyone can take part in one of our classes. Every class is suitable for all levels of fitness, ability and experience.
Each class starts with a warm up, we have a technical section where we break down what we are working on during that class. Some classes may have sparring depending on what day it is and there is usually some kind of fitness section of the class.
Every few months we have gradings for both Taekwon-Do and Kickboxing for all of our age groups. Across all of our programmes we have a full grading system from white to black belt. As your go higher up the belt the waiting time between grades increases as you get closer to black belt.
No. We try and encourage people to compete however not everyone has a goal to fight in competitions/fight nights. We have a very active and successful competition team, but it is not compulsory.
Nothing! Your first class is free, come along and try a session out and see if you like it.
You can book your free trial class by clicking here.
If it’s your first class, make sure you wear comfy clothes that you can exercise in, a towel and plenty of water. If you have your own gloves feel free to bring them, if not we have plenty spare pairs you can borrow.
Yes we do, we are a family based martial arts academy. We have whole families training with us, sometimes we have multiple family members in every programme.