The Way

I don't claim to be a "master", or a particularly tough guy at all, but I do hold instructor certification in two disciplines, and experience with multiple martial arts over a 20 year career.

I want to work with you to further develop your own abilities as well as my own. I am not teaching a style, so much as giving you an introductory course in martial arts techniques, and or a place to practice basic sparring practices. A way for fellow martial arts nerds to train, and be motivated to practice without having to pay the huge amounts of money, or be buried in the contractual obligations of big-time gyms.

With that having been said, this is the current curriculum I am practicing, & could potentially teach you if you are not skilled in them already.

1rst level skills (white band):

STAND-UP:

Break-falls
Fighting stance
Jab closed and empty handed
Cross (Reverse punch) closed and empty
Hook punch closed and empty
Uppercut closed and empty
Elbow strikes; cross, upwards, downwards, axe
Roundhouse to the leg
Front kick/push-kick to the body
Isolation kick practice
Plum flower clinch
Forward knees from clinch

GRAPPLING:

Gaurd
Side-mount
Mount
Shrimp-curl
Armbar: standing/ mounted/ from guard
Kimura (figure-four armlock): standing/ mounted/ from guard
Guillotine Choke: standing/ mounted/ from guard
Rear naked choke: standing/ from guard

2nd level skills (Pink band):

STAND-UP:

Stance training; forward, backward, horse, cat
Backhand
Hammerfist
Side-kick
Front and Side kick to legs
Back kick
axe kick
Beginners mitt & pad work
Beginners level sparring

GRAPPLING:

Shoulder and hip throw variations
wrist locks
Double leg takedown
single leg takedown
Sprawl
gi/clothes choke
Elevator
lock-flows
Beginners level grappling

WEAPONS TRAINING (ESCRIMA):

Triangle footwork pattern
cinco-teros
cinco-teros reinforced blocks
figure-four
Payong sumbrada

3rd level skills (Red band):

STAND-UP:

Spinning backfist
Ridgehand
Chops: downwards, backhand, cross
spinning back-kick
trapping hands
Advanced mitt & pad work
Advanced sparring

GRAPPLING:

Knee-bar
Ankle lock variations
Ground & pound training
Self defense techniques
Advanced throws and take-down strategies

WEAPONS TRAINING (ESCRIMA):

Doce-Teros
Doce-Teros reinforced blocks
Diamond pattern footwork
Double baston Payong Sumbrada
Siniwali overhand
Siniwali underhand
Siniwali thrusting
Krusada
Basic stick and knife passing
stick and knife disarms
Espada y daga doce-teros
Beginners stick and knife fighting

Student-trainer level skills (black band):

If the student chooses the student may act as an assistant instructor and begin to teach for themselves
Student specific p.t.
Student specific independent study/ mentorship
Advanced hand combinations/ advanced mitt-work
Advanced kick work
Magic-circle footwork
Retrada footwork
MMA style sparring
Advanced stick and knife sparring
Doble baston sparring
Espada y Daga sparring

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