Innovative Fighting Arts

The importance of women training in serious martial arts cannot be overstated. Along with this it’s crucial that any art women train should include weapons and force equalizers. There’s so many dangerous“womens self defense” programs out there. Dangerous as it promotes a very false sense of confidence. If your art does not include edged and improvised weapons. It’s wanting. If your art does not include close quarter combat including biting and eye gouging, it’s wanting. If your art doesn’t include practical ground survival, it’s wanting. And if your art doesn’t include psychology of violence and mentally preparing you to perform under duress, it’s wanting. There are many great arts out there. In fact they all contribute in some way. There is no one art answer.
Many Filipino Martial Arts are an amalgam of several arts to address all ranges of combat. Furthermore they evolve to meet modern and existing threats. Innovative Fighting Arts shares these exact principles.

"THE ART WITHIN YOUR ART!"

Modern Arnis, as taught by Professor Presas, was coined “The Art within Your Art.”

Professor believed that all arts were and are interlocked in reference points.

No matter the movement or system – Japanese, Chinese, Indonesian, Korean, European or others – Filipino arts literally connect the systems by seeking the universal patterns of line relationships.

Physical movement in techniques becomes an issue of intent. It is intent that clarifies the combat efficiency of what the Filipino arts truly represent.

Karate and kung fu systems block the attack (“Block hard, Daniel-San”), JKD intercepts the attack, and Filipino arts attack the attacking weapon.

As stated, the distinction is the intent.

Flow within the art is a diverse aspect that separates the visual appearance as well as the functional applications contained in Modern Arnis and other Filipino systems.

It is a moot point whether other arts contain attacking blocks; few arts address the psychology of the intension as clearly as Filipino arts do.

Mentally, if you are thinking “defensive block,” you must then think “offensive attack.”

Represent your art as it was intended, look your students in the eyes, do not lose the values and virtues of personal defense.

Filipino arts avoid the dilemma by setting the mind to “Defang the Snake” or “Attack the Attacking Weapon,” as simple as that.

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