|
About Us What We Teach We practice a progressive form of self-protection and personal development called Rib Mountain Martial Arts, a Mixed Martial Arts system based primarily upon Japanese Taijutsu but influenced by other styles as well, especially the Catch Wrestling methods of Steven Henderson.
In our physical protection methods we practice intelligent techniques and strategies for self-protection and the defense of others, combined with realistic physical performance along with skill making the right decision when faced with 'unprogrammed' attacks. Our physical training is centered around exploring and improving five different but related self-protection capabilities:
Learn more about our specific courses and class times here. Our training explores all these capabilities as options for self-protection both physically and mentally. In our mental development methods, we learn secular exercises and viewpoints for centering awareness, applying energies for accomplishment, and understanding and changing our own limiting mental and emotional habits. The essence of our training is in learning and practicing strategies for living and self-protection based on appropriateness, and in striving everyday to improve, to be creative, to learn, and to live well. The core of martial arts training lies in growing as a human being and in learning to fulfill personal potential. It is fine to talk in theory about human development, but it is positive martial arts training that can provide a vehicle to make it happen.
Our Training Philosophy We believe that properly practiced, martial arts are good for people. We don't believe this in the way you might read a Yellow Pages ad where the same marketing phrases are bullet-pointed on almost every martial arts advertisement and rarely delivered. What we do believe is that martial arts rooted in a focus on practical self-protection methods against common real world 21st century attacks, along with a study of philosophy tempered by intelligent pragmatism will offer the practitioner a means to improve the quality of their life.
Our Curriculum
Learn more about our specific courses and class times here. A short list of the full training opportunities might include: kicking, punching, locks, throws, sweeps, rolls, pressure points, vital points, yoga-like stretching, numerous weapons arts, methods for escaping danger, awareness, sparring, multiple opponents, multiple defenders, personal accomplishment, nonphysical application of martial arts principles, improvised weapons, protecting others, working properly with law enforcement after a defense situation, life philosophy, psychology, secular meditation, mental frameworks for training in self-protection, as well as scenario training and experience training in various environments - such as in water, on ice, in snow, on slopes, in vehicles, etc. Occasionally we also work on self-reliance skills such as fire starting, shelter building, car emergency kits, and water purification. This is a vast martial art, but can be taken
one step at a time through our guided curriculum. New training members
will focus on movement, basic strikes and kicks, evading being hit,
dojo etiquette, and will build a foundation for the rest of their
martial arts career. Why We Teach and Train
Learn about the primary instructor here. |
This
form is based upon Michael Erwin's 
Training
for new students begins cautiously and we always emphasize safety
and the comfort of the individual. Eventually training members learn
how to successfully apply techniques against a variety of attacks
and varying levels of resistance from opponents.
The
instructors at our school teach and train because they have found
that martial arts are good for people, and they have a passion to
pass along the value that they have found through martial arts in
their lives. Taught properly, the martial arts provide a vehicle
to both enjoy life more, and overcome the difficulties that are
a natural part of everyday existence.