Frequently Asked Questions

We offer private instruction in our home dojo by appointment. We recommend at least 2 hours of private instruction per week with at least 4 hours of weekly practice on your own to progress. Personalized and private instruction is exponentially more effective than group classes.

We teach an integration of several martial arts, primarily:

• Ryukyu Kempo USA, primarily a pressure point intensive Okinawan form of karate,.
• Small Circle Jujitsu, A principle-based jujitsu style emphasizing small joint manipulation. 
• Modern Arnis, a Filipino martial art involving usage of blunt and edged tools and empty hand translations.

We teach Kobujitsu not Kobudo, that is to say the more tactical rather than sport use of traditional Okinawan weapons such as the Staff, the sai, the tonfa, the nunchuku and the sword. Additionally we teach the Filipino art of Modern Arnis under Bram Frank's lineage, which means a conceptual motion/ modular perspective approach to the use of single and double stick, edged tool and bolo. Modern Arnis is taught early on while Kobujitsu is introduced later.

Training with us in the martial arts offers benefits in 3 aspects of life: physical, mental, and social.

1. Physical 

Physical training on a regular basis offers the most obvious. It is common to notice changes in the following areas after a few short weeks [8-16]

• Weight loss/ muscle gain
• Cardiovascular health
• Flexibility
• Balance
• Reflexes/ Agility

1. Mental Aspects

The second layer of martial arts training builds the mental capacities of students. By creating the paradox of a safe yet challenging environment you will experience positive changes in things such as:

• Stress relief
• Self esteem
• Focus
• Memory / Mental acuity
• Tranquility

1. Social benefits

While we are a school that focuses on self-defense/ Life protection you will find as a consequence of long-term training we build better people. Creating critical thinkers who question cognitive bias and logical fallacies. Philosophical issues, economics and phycology are all part of our programs. As such our students benefit in these and other areas:

• Character building
• Improved social skills
• Safe and serene social environment
• Awareness

 We are different in many ways from other 'traditional' schools. 

• We have been active in the study of martial arts for 40+ years.
• We have studied a variety of systems but from an integrated principle-based perspective.
• We incorporate elements of psychology and NLP in our teaching to deepen and enhance learning.
• We have directly trained with some amazing teachers, including several Blackbelt Magazine Hall of Fame members and other well recognized /world famous experts in the field.
• We do this not for love of profit but to spread this essential skill set to future generations and those who need it.

• We keep our overhead low, teaching privately to keep our rates affordable and reasonable.