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Martial Arts and Self Defense Training with
a Self Defense Company Professional Instructor Why do people seek our professional instructors for martial arts and self defense training over all others? It’s simple: experience, integrity and knowledge. When I first began teaching martial arts and self defense in 1992, I never knew that a lack of real self defense skills existed in the martial arts. Like most people, I thought all Black Belts were masters of self defense. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Fortunately for me I was lucky enough to be exposed to real martial arts and self defense training early on in my quest for my first Black Belt. I understood the difference between martial arts, self defense and combat sport. For years, I took the self defense knowledge I had for granted. It wasn’t until I began the world wide video business that I realized there was a huge void that needed to be filled. I discovered people like me, who had an interest in the martial arts but wanted to provide a public service by teaching others effective self defense skills. Thus the Self Defense Company Professional Instructor Program was born. Each Instructor has his or her own unique life experience, but they all have something in common: the desire to help others through hands on self defense instruction. The Professional Self Defense Instructor’s provides real training and expertise in each self defense class. A Self Defense Professional Instructor is required to be certified in 10 Lesson Self Defense Class and The Self Defense Training System. This requires hands-on training seminars at the Self Defense Company Training Facility and intense field study. At the Self Defense Company, self defense training and self defense instruction are our business. That includes not only provided proven methods through proven training systems, but a level of integrity and professionalism you should expect from someone who has earned this incredible responsibility. Professional Instructors go through a pre-screen and a full screen for public safety. Each instructor is held to the highest standards. If an instructor is proved to be conducting themselves in a manner unbecoming, their license is automatically revoked. Every instructor is held accountable to his or her actions.
Below is the list of accredited instructors. Each instructor is required to complete the certification course under the strict guidelines of The Self Defense Company. Instructor Listing AUSTRALIA Queensland BERMUDA
CANADA Toronto
Alberta
IRELAND John Brawn UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Dubai
UNITED KINGDOM Gary Larkin UNITED STATES Alabama
California
Travis Bueno
Mark Jordan
Colorado
Florida LtCol Darren C. Poesel, USMC Hawaii Phil Rocheleau Idaho
Maryland Nevada Trevor Malagon New Jersey Ian Fosso Mike Lawlor Derrick Carrington New York
Pennsylvania
Tennessee Jeff Demming Texas Carlos Rodriguez
Felix Torres Washington
Wisconsin
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Misha Zigas 
Reuben Bean 
William Bistak 
Joe Landry 
Stephen Drake
Mathew Allen 
Duane Brand
Peter Mouttapa 
Ty Talbert 
Michael Christopher 
Roger Hamilton
Greg Styles 
Scott Compton 
William Craig 
Darrin Walton 
Thomas Kobela
Michael Archangel 
Clint Bodungen 
Jaime Thompson
Chad Bussell
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Links to Martial Arts Articles A Brief History Of Martial Arts in the Modern Military Many martial arts are derived from military combatives; the study of hand-to-hand combat and martial arts in warfare. After all, the term "martial art" means "art of warfare." For example, the sport or judo comes from jujutsu, which comes from samurai grappling, which was part of the training Japanese warriors received as preparation for battle. Many weapon-oriented martial arts, such as iado, kendo, kyudo and naganata-do originated in schools of martial techniques for warriors. These weapons, the sword, bow and arrow, and pole arm, were the assault rifles and machine guns of their time--the default weapons of military fighters--and as such were key components in combat training. The Western interest in East Asian Martial arts dates back to the late 19th Century AD, due to the increase in trade between America with China and Japan. Relatively few Westerners actually practiced the martial arts, considering it to be mere performance. Edward William Barton-Wright, a railway engineer who had studied the martial art Jujutsu while working in Japan between 1894–97, was the first man known to have taught Asian martial arts in Europe. He also founded an eclectic martial arts style named Bartitsu which combined jujutsu, judo, boxing, savate and stick fighting. William E. Fairbairn, a Shanghai policeman and at the time a leading Western expert on Asian fighting techniques, was recruited during world War II by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) to teach UK, U.S. and Canadian Commando and Ranger forces Jujutsu. The seminal self-defense book Kill or Get Killed was written by Colonel Rex Applegate, who worked closely with Fairbairn to train the "First Special Service," a joint U.S. and Canadian army unit; it became a classic military treatise on hand to hand combat and created the reality based martial art "Defendu." Modern variations that can still trace an authentic lineage to Applegate are very few . The undisputed "father" of Modern close-combat is Carl Cestari who had a direct relationship with both Colonel Applegate and WWII self-defense pioneer Charlie Nelson. In 2006 Carl Cestari was named one of the top 10 "Most Dangerous Men On The Planet" by Black Belt Magazine. Seeing the need to bring these legitimate and proven techniques and method of close-combat back into the Modern world of "hobby" Martial Arts (Karate, Kung Fu, Capoiera, Aikido, etc.) and "sport" Martial Arts (Judo, Brazilian Jui-jitsu, Wrestling, Kick Boxing, Mixed Martial Arts, Ultimate fighting , etc.), one of Cestari’s top students, Damian Ross and his instructors have dedicated their lives to teaching, instruction, and spreading the "truth" about Martial Arts, street fighting, self defense, and close combat. This site is the only link to that legacy Please be aware of the following common misspellings as relates to common martial art searches: martial atrs, martial atrs weapons, martial arts spuplies, martial arts eqiupment, martail, marital arts uniforms, amrtial arts supply, amrtial arts books amrtial arts. Copyright © 2008 The Self Defense Company LLC, Complete Self Defense, Carl Cestari, Core Combat Training, World War II hand to hand combat, Street Mixed Martial Arts and The Complete Self Defense Training System are registered to The Self Defense Company All rights reserved.
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