Our Styles

Thai Boxing

Thai Boxing, know as Thai Boxing in Thailand, is known as “King of the Ring” in kickboxing circles. These fights feature punches, kicks, elbows, knees, standing grappling and head-butts to wear down and knock out their opponent. Thai training methods develop devastating power, speed and superb cardio-vascular endurance as well as fighting spirit. Muay Thai training is also quite safe thanks to pad training that evolved to keep fighters healthy between fights. There are no forms in Muay Thai nor is there any pulling of techniques before impact. Using pads and focus mitts and no-nonsense training methods, kicks, punches, knees and elbows are practiced full power and without holding back. Thai Boxing has also proven very effective outside the ring and has been embraced by practitioners of a variety of self-defense systems, military and law enforcement personnel. Training in Thai Boxing includes the following elements:

Physical Conditioning
Shadow Boxing
Heavy Bag Practice
Thai Pad and Focus Mitt Training
Sparring

Filipino Arts of Kali/Silat

Weapons based art from the Philippines that teaches weapons first, unlike most traditional disciplines. A combat proven and highly sophisticated martial arts system that helps students become fluid with their movements and increases the level of the student to be able to anticipate the next move of an opponent. Although the Filipino arts start out with weapons they are a very efficient, effective and street oriented empty hand art. The use of elbows, knees, head butts, kicks and punches are common in close range fighting. Grappling techniques or Dumog are also part of the Filipino arts and include throws, sweeps and takedowns that are often difficult if not impossible to fall correctly out of as in traditional arts of Judo or Jiu Jitsu. Students learn locks and chokes with weapons as well as empty hand.

Weapons include but are not limited to: Single stick, double stick, stick and dagger, Panatukan (Filipino Boxing) and flexible weapons. Everyday objects (such as, books, umbrellas, bandannas, purses etc) become effective means of self-defense in the hands of a properly trained individual. Drills and techniques taught in a fluid, non-restrictive manner allow students to enhance their natural attributes and improve their sense of timing, speed, awareness, balance, agility and confidence. Filipino Kali / Silat is a combat proven, highly sophisticated martial art that has something to offer the new or veteran student of the martial arts. The Filipino arts taught at MAMAs are a combination of 30 primary sources Guro Inosanto has spent his life researching and training in.

Wing Chun

Wing Chun is a Chinese system of King Fu that specializes in developing, explosive and street – oriented practical self defense. Originally developed by a woman, it relies on leverage and sensitivity rather than muscular strength to overcome an opponent. Training develops reflex speed, coordination, sensitivity and power. Students learn about protecting or maintaining their centerline and destroying or entering their opponents with overwhelming power and speed. Through use of solo forms, training equipment such as the wooden dummy, focus mitts, and two man drills, students develop the attributes of body coordination, sensitivity and leverage in learning to apply the principles of Wing Chun in all situations including trapping, grappling and punching/kicking. The sensitivity and leverage learned in Wing Chun will flow over into other arts such as grappling, taking those skills to higher level.

Jun Fan Gung Fu/Jeet Kune Do

Originally developed by Bruce Lee and propagated by Dan Inosanto this art emphasizes the “ ranges of combat”. Students learn to move with ease from kicking range to hand range to close quarter trapping and grappling range. With Wing Chun at the core of his system, Sigung Bruce incorporated techniques from various arts such as Northern Praying Mantis, Southern Praying Mantis, Choy Li Fut, Western Boxing, Wrestling, Fencing, Judo, Jiu Jitsu and kicking styles from Northern and Southern Chinese styles. Students are taught to blend techniques into one continuous flowing motion until the conflict is finished. Sifu Bruce Lee was way ahead of his time in training and teaching methods. Sifu LaVonne Martin passes on to her students the training methods that are preserved and taught today by Bruce Lee protégé, student and training partner, Sifu Dan Inosanto.

Maphalindo Silat

Maphlindo Silat is a blend of Malaysian, Filipino and Indonesian marital arts that was researched and organized by Guro Dan Inosanto. Various methods of Silat are found throughout Southeast Asia. Vast and diverse, these various marital arts of the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and many other countries were united under the Majapahit Empire.

Grappling

Grappling information will be pulled from Maphlindo Silat, Erik Paulson’s Combat Submission Wrestling and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.