A brief overview on the arts taught at HMA and some of their benefits:

A. Jun Fan/Jeet Kune Do      

This is a non-classical Chinese Martial Art which Bruce Lee taught in the late 1960's.  Starting with Wing Chun Kung Fu at the core of his system, Bruce Lee also incorporated Western Boxing, Fencing, Northern and Southern styles of Kung Fu, Savate, and Muay Thai.  Emphasizing the "ranges of combat", students are taught to confidently move with ease and flow from long distance "kicking range", to close quarters or "trapping and/or grappling range".


B. Filipino Kali/Escrima/Pangamut 

The ancient native art of the Filipino Islands, which promotes the understanding of the use of weaponry as a means of developing superior body mechanics for empty hand fighting.  Drills and techniques taught in a non-restrictive manner allow students to enhance their natural attributes, and improve their sense of timing, speed, agility, awareness, balance and confidence.

C. STX  

This art is known as a blend of Savate/Thai. It was designed to combine Savate's tricky long range angled attacks with Muay Thai's powerful middle and close range direct attacks.

D. Muay Thai

The National Art of Thailand, Muay Thai is often referred to as the "Art of 8 Weapons" (hands, elbows, knees, legs).  This particular art form places an emphasis on the physical conditioning required and cardiovascular benefits gained from practicing Thai Boxing. 
 
E. Maphilindo Silat

Maphilindo is the art that resulted from the blending of Malaysian Bersilat, Filipino Kuntaw Silat, and Indonesian Pentjak Silat by Master Guru Dan Inosanto.  Maphilindo utilizes these Silat arts by blending their tactical approach excecuting silat's quick hand entries, off balancing the opponent through the use of levers, close quarter punches, low line kicks, sweeps, and throws.

F. Shooto (Shoot-Wrestling)

A popular martial art and combative sport in Japan, founded by Satoru Sayama, is a unique blend of Russian Sambo, Judo, Jiu-Jitsu, Catch-as-Catch-can wrestling, and thai boxing.  Practitioners are allowed to throw, tackle, take down or sweep the opponent and continue on the ground and engage in submission and locking techniques.

G. Combat Submission Wrestling (CSW)

CSW is a comprehensive grappling system that was coined by Sensei Erik Paulson through his many years of experience gained by competing in the highly competitive World Grappling Events.  The grappling arts that Sensei Paulson researched and trained are: Judo, Freestyle Wrestling, and Greco Roman Wrestling, with ground techniques and submissions from Shooto, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and Sambo.  These techniques will allow the practitioner to incorporate upper and lower body ground attacks, body control and positioning, sweeps, take downs, set ups and transitions.

H. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) is a martial art and combat sport that focuses on ground fighting with the goal of subduing your opponent using joint manipulation or a choke. The system is based on a modified version of traditional Japanese Jiujutsu called "Jiu-do" which is based on the idea of soft overcoming the hard wich, in other words, means that the smaller, weaker person using leverage and proper technique, can defend themselves against a bigger, stronger assailant. BJJ can be trained for self defense, sports grappling tournaments (gi and no-gi) and mixed martial arts (MMA) competition.