These Terms of Use ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Light Sword Training Academy ("LSTA," "we," "us"), 4701 Shore Dr., Ste. #103-440, Virginia Beach, VA 23455. They govern your use of lightswordtrainingacademy.com and sifuarmstrong.com (together, the "Sites") and your purchase and use of the memberships, courses, equipment, event entries, federation dues and communities offered on lightswordtrainingacademy.com, wherever the checkout takes place (the "Offerings"). The operator programs sold on sifuarmstrong.com are governed by the Terms of Use published there. By using a Site or purchasing an Offering, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Sites or purchase an Offering.
Please read Section 8 (Results and Testimonials), Section 17 (Limitation of Liability) and Section 19 (Dispute Resolution and Class Action Waiver). They affect your legal rights.
LSTA operates the Light Sword Training Academy curriculum and the Saber Tag league system. Our checkout, member accounts and online courses run on Club Sabernet (clubsabernet.com), which has its own Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for the community itself. Some memberships are delivered through a separate member app provided by Holistically Simple under its own terms. Sanctioned competition and federation membership are governed by the Light Sword Martial Arts Federation (LSMAF) under its own rules. Where an Offering is covered by a separate written agreement, that agreement controls for that Offering and these Terms fill in the gaps.
Most Offerings are delivered through a member account on Club Sabernet. When you buy as a guest, we create that account for you with the email address you enter at checkout; the account is yours and the Club Sabernet Terms apply to it. You are responsible for keeping your login confidential and for everything done under your account. Keep one account per person, do not share access to paid content, and tell us at once at [email protected] if you believe your account has been used without permission.
Prices and payment. Prices are in U.S. dollars and can change. Payments are processed by Stripe under its own terms; we never see or store your full card number. You are responsible for any taxes that apply to your purchase.
What you get. The contents of an Offering, any trial period, and its refund or guarantee terms are the ones stated on its offer page at the time you buy. Digital programs and courses are delivered through your member account. Physical equipment is sold and shipped by the Light Sword Trading Post under its own terms, including its return policy.
Recurring charges. Some Offerings bill on a recurring basis: for example the monthly Shadow Warriors training membership. By starting a recurring Offering you authorize us and our payment processor to charge your payment method at the start of each billing period until you cancel. You can cancel a monthly plan at any time from your account or by email; the cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period and you keep access until then. Charges already processed for a period are not refunded unless the offer page or Section 5 says otherwise. If a payment fails we may retry it and may suspend access until it clears. We give at least 30 days' notice before changing the price of a recurring Offering you already hold.
Founding rates and caps. Where an offer page states a founding rate with a seat cap, the cap is a real, fixed number. When it fills, the post-founding price on that page applies to new buyers. We do not run countdowns or rolling seat counts.
Chargebacks. If you believe a charge is wrong, contact us first. A chargeback opened without contacting us may result in suspension of access while it is resolved.
Refund and guarantee terms belong to each Offering and are stated on its offer page. The terms in force on the day you buy are the ones that apply to you. As of the effective date above, the published terms are:
How to request a refund. Email the address on the offer page, or [email protected], from the email address on the order, within the window. Refunds go back to the original payment method. Renewal charges on recurring Offerings are not refundable once processed.
Where an Offering is covered by a separate written agreement, you review and sign it before it takes effect; the offer page describes the program and is not the agreement. Only LSTA Corporate certifies instructors; no academy or operator may certify anyone or represent that it can. Credentials we issue may be revoked for breach of the conduct standards that come with them. Instructor courses, certifications and the programs for people who want to run their own floor are sold at sifuarmstrong.com under the Terms of Use published there.
Assumption of risk. Light sword training is a physical, contact-sport activity. Participation in any class, Day Pass, open night, league night, tournament, grand opening or other event carries a risk of injury. You participate at your own risk, and you should consult a physician before beginning any new physical activity. Every participant, or the parent or guardian of a participant under 18, signs the waiver and release presented at registration or check-in before stepping on the floor.
If you operate a program. If you deliver training using our curriculum or equipment, you alone are responsible for safe instruction, participant screening, supervision, waivers, insurance coverage, facility safety and compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction. Templates we provide are starting points for your attorney and insurer, not substitutes for them.
Event conduct. We may refuse entry to, or remove from an event, anyone who is intoxicated, unsafe, abusive or in breach of the Code of S.A.B.E.R. or the event rules, without refund. Symptomatic or injured participants may be asked not to take the floor. Sanctioned competition follows LSMAF rules and the decisions of its officials.
Photography and recording at events. Our events are photographed and recorded. By attending you allow us to use images, video and audio in which you appear, without payment, for documenting and promoting our programs. If you would rather not appear, tell the event lead before you take the floor, or email us within 7 days after the event and we will remove or not use the material where it is reasonably possible. A parent or guardian makes this choice for a participant under 18.
Changes and force majeure. We may change an event's date, venue, schedule or programming. If a material change makes it unreasonable for you to attend, we will offer a transfer or a refund of the event fee. We are not responsible for events that cannot go ahead because of weather, emergency, venue closure or other causes beyond our reasonable control, and we are not responsible for travel or accommodation costs.
Training results disclaimer. We sell training, curriculum, equipment and event entries, not outcomes. Any result described on the Sites or in our materials belongs to the specific student, academy or floor it is attributed to; there is no assurance that you will do as well. What you get out of training depends on your starting point, your instruction, your practice and your health. Nothing we publish is a promise of a rank, a competitive result or a physical outcome.
Testimonials. Testimonials and case studies on the Sites come from real customers, partners and students who gave us permission to share their words. They describe that person's experience and are not a promise of what you will experience. Where a person's business results are described, those results are theirs; individual results vary.
Educational purpose. Everything we publish and sell is for educational and informational purposes. Before you act on it, consult your own accountant, attorney, insurance carrier and other qualified professionals.
Our materials, including waiver templates and written guidance, are general educational resources, not legal, insurance, tax, financial or medical advice. Light sword training is physical activity: consult your physician before you begin, and consult your own qualified professionals before you act on anything we publish.
The Sites and all Offerings, including the curriculum, the 9-form system, forms, videos, course content, worksheets, scripts, documents, software, names, logos and marks (including Light Sword Training Academy, Saber Tag, Saber Kinetics and the Sifu Armstrong marks), are owned by LSTA or its licensors and protected by intellectual property laws. A purchase grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the materials for your own personal use as described on the offer page, for as long as your access remains in good standing. You may not resell, redistribute, publicly post, share account access to, record, scrape, or create derivative programs from our materials, or use our marks, without our written permission.
When you post in our communities, send us a review or testimonial, submit a form video for coaching, or otherwise give us content, you keep ownership of it. You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to host, use, display and reproduce it for operating and improving our programs and, where you have told us we may, for promoting them. You confirm you have the rights to what you share. We may remove content and suspend accounts that break the community guidelines of the platform where it was posted. Coaching feedback on a submitted form video is instruction for that student and may not be redistributed.
Some of our written materials, worksheets, videos and marketing are produced with the help of AI tools and reviewed by our team before we publish them. Some of our platforms offer automated assistants and AI features, for example the chat assistant on this Site and the community chat assistants on Club Sabernet. Their responses are generated automatically, can be wrong or incomplete, are not reviewed by a person before you see them, and are not legal, financial, medical or professional advice. Do not rely on an automated response as the sole basis for a decision, and check anything that matters against the course material or with a person on our team.
Where we offer a call, it is free unless the booking page states a fee. A call is an introductory conversation about fit. It creates no client, advisory or fiduciary relationship, no confidentiality obligation on either side, and no promise of any outcome. Calls may be recorded for quality and training; if a call is recorded you will be told at the start and can ask that it not be. Please reschedule with at least 24 hours' notice where you can.
When you submit a form, book a call, download a resource, or buy an Offering, you agree that we may contact you by email about your request, your order and our programs. Every marketing email includes an unsubscribe link, and transactional messages about your account and orders continue while you hold one. If you give us a mobile number and opt in to text messages, you agree to receive texts from us about your request, appointments, orders and programs; message frequency varies, message and data rates may apply, reply STOP to any text to opt out and HELP for help, and carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. Consent to texts is not a condition of any purchase. Details are in the Privacy Policy.
Checkout (Stripe), our member and course platform (Club Sabernet), our forms, email, video delivery, hosting and analytics are provided with or by third parties under their own terms and privacy policies, and the Privacy Policy names them. We choose them with care but do not control them, and we are not responsible for a third-party service we do not operate. Links to other sites are provided for convenience; we are not responsible for their content or practices.
You agree not to misuse the Sites or Offerings: no attempts to breach security, scrape or harvest data, submit false information in applications or forms, reverse-engineer our software, use bots, interfere with other users, or use anything we provide for an unlawful purpose or to build a competing curriculum or program. The Sites and Offerings are provided "as is" and "as available." To the fullest extent permitted by law we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement, and we do not warrant that the Sites or Offerings will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure or suited to your particular goals.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, LSTA and its owners, instructors, staff, contractors, licensors and affiliates will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data or lost business opportunities, arising from or related to the Sites, the Offerings, an event, a call, or these Terms, however caused and under any theory of liability. Our total liability for all claims arising from an Offering, event or the Sites will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid us for the Offering giving rise to the claim in the 12 months before the claim arose or one hundred U.S. dollars ($100). Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations; in those places our liability is limited to the smallest amount the law permits. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for death or personal injury caused by our negligence where the law does not permit that limitation.
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless LSTA and its owners, instructors, staff, contractors and affiliates from any claim, loss, liability, damage or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your use of the Sites or an Offering, your operation of any program using our curriculum, equipment or marks, the content you give us, your breach of these Terms or of a separate written agreement, your violation of any law or third-party right, or any injury or loss suffered by a participant in a program you operate.
Talk to us first. Before starting any formal proceeding, you agree to email us at [email protected] with a description of the dispute and what you are asking for, and to give us 30 days to resolve it with you informally. Most issues are resolved this way.
Binding arbitration. If we cannot resolve a dispute informally, any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms, the Sites, an Offering or an event will be resolved by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its rules then in effect, before a single arbitrator, in the Commonwealth of Virginia or by video conference, rather than in court. The arbitrator may award the same individual relief a court could. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court with jurisdiction. Either party may instead bring an individual claim in small claims court if it qualifies.
Class action waiver. Disputes will be resolved on an individual basis only. You and LSTA each waive any right to participate in a class, collective, consolidated or representative action or arbitration. If this waiver is found unenforceable for a particular claim, that claim will proceed in court rather than in arbitration, and the rest of this section still applies.
Opt-out. You may opt out of arbitration and the class action waiver by emailing us within 30 days after you first accept these Terms, with your name, the email on your account and a clear statement that you opt out. Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms.
Exceptions. Either party may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in court to protect intellectual property or to stop unauthorized use of the Sites or Offerings. A separate signed agreement may contain its own dispute terms, which control for that agreement.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Federal Arbitration Act, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Where a matter proceeds in court under Section 19, it will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Virginia, and you consent to their jurisdiction.
You may stop using the Sites at any time and may cancel a recurring Offering as described in Section 4. We may suspend or end your access to a Site, an Offering, a community or an event, with or without notice, if you breach these Terms, a community guideline or a separate written agreement, if your payment fails and is not cured, if we reasonably believe your conduct is harmful to others, or where the law requires. Sections 5 through 12 and 15 through 22 survive termination. Termination for breach does not entitle you to a refund.
Changes. We may update these Terms. The effective date above shows the latest revision. For material changes we will post a notice on the Sites or email account holders. Continued use of the Sites or an Offering after a change takes effect is acceptance of the change; if you do not agree, stop using the Sites and cancel any recurring Offering before the change takes effect.
Copyright notices. If you believe material on the Sites or in our communities infringes your copyright, email [email protected] with the location of the material, a description of the work you say is infringed, your contact information, a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorized, a statement under penalty of perjury that the information is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner, and your physical or electronic signature. We respond to valid notices and may remove material and terminate repeat infringers.
Other terms. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, the terms of the platform on which an Offering is delivered, and any separate signed agreement are the entire agreement between you and LSTA about their subject. If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms or any Offering without our written consent; we may assign them to a successor. We are not responsible for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control. Headings are for convenience only.
Light Sword Training Academy
4701 Shore Dr., Ste. #103-440, Virginia Beach, VA 23455
[email protected]