- You want to learn Filipino Martial Arts?
- You may want to improve your knife defense and stickfighting skills?
- You need weapon and weapon defense training because of your job as law enforcement or military officer?
- You want to get a deep insight into the most complete martial art, which consists of weapon fighting and defense (stick, knife, flexible tools, everyday objects, …), boxing arts (boxing, kickboxing), grappling arts (stand up, ground fighting, locks, chokes and takedowns), modern and effective self-defense and tactical awareness and behavior?
- You don't have the time to go frequently into a regular gym, because of your job or family other hobbies?
- You don't have a qualified instructor in your area?
- You want to learn the complete range of FMA, weapon and empty hands?
- You want to learn FMA in a well-structured step-by-step manner?
- You are already into FMA, but you are looking for the most complete online library for FMA techniques and its self-defense applications?
You have found what you have been looking for!
There are a few online courses teaching you some basics, but this online training course is different. This is a complete guide from beginner to blackbelt, structured and step-by-step, teaching you all FMA disciplines, all variations and applications, tactics and at a certain level also instructor knowledge about training theory, exercises, variations and more.
The only complete online training course
This Online Academy is not just about some simple basics or a couple of random drills. Learn the whole curriculum and the whole range of Filipino Martial Arts, step-by-step, from beginner level up to blackbelt level.
Learn:
The wide range of Filipino weapon skills
- Filipino double stick (Double Baston),
- Filipino single stick (Solo Baston),
- Filipino knife defense (Daga),
- Combined usage of short and long tools and weapons (Espada y Daga),
- Flexible tools (Malong),
- Common everyday objects, like pen, keys, mobile phone, backpack, umbrella …
The complete range of empty hand fighting skills
- Transfer of weapon techniques to empty hand application and trapping skills (Kadena de Mano),
- Filipino boxing (Panantukan),
- Filipino kickboxing (Sikaran),
- Lockflows (Tuloy ng Trankada),
- Filipino wrestling and ground fighting (Dumog),
- Practical and effective self-defense, dealing with typical self-defense situations
Also underlying principles and tactics plus basic knowledge about the art and culture
- Principles and tactics,
- Theory
Why should I learn Filipino Martial Arts?
Filipino Martial Arts (FMA), also known as Kali, Eskrima/Escrima or Arnis, is often called ‘the art of stickfighting’. This may stem from the most obvious difference to all other martial arts. Already beginners start with an intense stickfighting training. But to reduce this art to “stickfighting” is like reducing an iceberg to the little tip which is above the surface of the water. This Filipino art of fighting is much more!
FMA is stickfighting, knife defense, knife fighting, trapping, boxing, kickboxing, grappling, lock flows, self-defense, principles and tactics. It is the decathlon of martial arts.
You will learn:
- handling and defending against weapons of all lengths: sticks, knife, palm stick, staff, flexible tools, coordinated usage of short and long tools and weapons and applications with everyday objects …
- the complete range of boxing arts, like in boxing, kickboxing, Jeet Kune Do (JKD) …
- grappling skills like in Submission Wrestling, MMA, BJJ, Jiu Jitsu …
- specific self-defense techniques and tactics like in Krav Maga, Keysi Fighting Method (KFM), Defence Lab (DL), Defence Art (DefArt) …
- the underlying principles and tactics as well as background knowledge about the art
It is probably the most complete fighting art in the world. It is weapon training and weapon defense, it is about boxing skills as well as grabbling skills and it is always self-defense orientated. It covers the complete range of fighting, stand-up and ground fighting, with and against weapons as well as hand-to-hand combat. The nutshell of this art is the transferability. Foremost you will not learn techniques, but principles. These principles of motions can be applied in many different constellations. You will learn double stick patterns. But these patterns are much more than stick patterns, they teach you basic coordination and movements which can also be applied with only one stick, with palm stick, with everyday objects like umbrella, bunch of keys, credit card … and also empty hands, against somebody empty hands, or armed with a bottle, club, baseball bat, knife … One technique which works in many constellations – this is brilliant, this is the key point of this fantastic art.
Hollywood has taken notice of this incredible, complete and highly effective martial art and took advantage of it to create brilliant action fight sequences, like Matt Damon in Bourne Identity, Daniel Craig in the James Bond movie Quantum of Solace, Denzel Washington in Book of Eli and The Equalizer, Liam Neeson in Taken, Wesley Snipes in Blade II and Blade Trinity, Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible III, Tommy Lee Jones in The Hunted, Milla Jovovich in Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Dune and also in TV series like Arrow or Hanna. In all these movies Filipino Martial Arts is the basis of their fight choreographies.
Finally, many Military Forces all around the world, especially Special Forces, use Filipino Martial Arts to improve their skills with and against edged and impact weapons as well as hand to hand combat. Law Enforcement forces use FMA training to improve knife defense skills and telescopic baton handling.
Take the chance to study this incredible, very complete and highly effective martial art.
Why should I join this online course?
This course is simply awesome. It is probably the most comprehensive and most structured online martial arts course worldwide. You will get hundreds of step-by-step videos and can learn the art in a structured way.
We not only show you some basics or selected techniques. In this online course you can learn the complete art, up to an instructor level and even up to blackbelt level. Become an expert in Filipino Martial Arts and maybe open your own FMA group one day.
Is it possible to learn a martial art online?
In a way this course is better than live training in a martial arts club.
In live training classes the instructor may show the technique once or twice and explain its details maybe also once or twice. In this online course, you can watch the technique over and over again. You can stop it, restart and you can watch it in slow motion. Additionally we shift your focus to all key details with little marks and hints and freeze frames. In life training classes you may miss some details. In this online training course you will take in all the details.
In a regular class training you get input maybe once or twice a week. If you study online, you have access to your teacher and current lessons 24/7/365. You can watch it at your computer at home, with your tablet in a park and with your mobile phone while sitting in a bus. You are not limited to the timetable of your gym, you can watch and train during every free time-slot you have. You can progress every day, 365 days a year – that’s why we call our course FMA365.
How is this course structured?
You get the complete student program of the Filipino Fighting Arts Association:
Our online training course is a correspondence degree course, like any business study at a reliable serious-minded Distance Learning University. We offer a well-structured program, provide you with written and video material to each and every topic, we will hold online examinations and award level and instructor certifications. To maintain your learning process and guide your focus, we will provide the techniques structured and step-by-step. This is not just any online course, this is a reliable online academy and comprehensive, well-structured education in one of the most complete martial arts.
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| This course is for everybody! Some of our students have never had any kind of martial arts training, while others have some experiences in other martial arts. Some did some cross training, others are blackbelts in Jiu Jitsu, Karate, Kung Fu or other arts. It doesn’t matter if you are a beginner in martial arts or already blackbelt in some arts. We start from scratch and build up your basics step-by-step. Everybody will learn at their own pace. A highly skilled martial arts expert may master some topics faster than a novice, but we guide every member through all the topics and techniques and provide the complete knowledge to everyone. Don’t worry, we will take you by the hand and accompany you on the way to your personal goal, no matter where you start. |
| To make it easy for everybody to follow this course, no matter how good his or her English is, we made all videos without verbal explanation. We show the techniques in regular speed and slow motion, in full speed and application and we mark all key details with freeze frames or little hints. These hints are in English, but there are no long explanations, fast speeches and strange dialects. That way it will be easy to follow for everybody around the world. Watch our free videos to get an impression. |
| This course is risk-free and affordable for everybody. We offer a free library of videos to give you an impression about the standard and what to expect.
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Who is your instructor team?
Your personal instructors are Timm Blaschke and Marcus Ruddies.
Each of them has more than 35 years martial arts experience and blackbelt level in various martial arts. They are both internationally well-know instructors. They are the head instructors of Filipino Fighting Arts and director of the Filipino Fighting Arts Association. During the last 20 years they trained thousands of people in Filipino Martial Arts and several hundreds up to instructor level. They have given 10,000+ seminar hours all around the world. Also 1000+ Military troopers and police officers have been trained by them, in a special tactical program heavily based on FMA.
Belts and certificates are not everything, but to get an impression about their reputation, here a short outline:
Each of them has more than 35 years martial arts experience and blackbelt level in various martial arts. They are both internationally well-know instructors. They are the head instructors of Filipino Fighting Arts and director of the Filipino Fighting Arts Association. During the last 20 years they trained thousands of people in Filipino Martial Arts and several hundreds up to instructor level. They have given 10,000+ seminar hours all around the world. Also 1000+ Military troopers and police officers have been trained by them, in a special tactical program heavily based on FMA.
Belts and certificates are not everything, but to get an impression about their reputation, here a short outline:
Beside systems where they got blackbelt or instructor level, they both spent years of regular training in other martial arts and achieved various ranks in other arts like: Modern Arnis, Balintawak Arnis, Boxe Francise Savate, Pencak Silat Concepts, Ju Jutsu, Judo, …
Both of them are highly skilled and accomplished martial arts instructors, they both run successful martial arts gyms, they have been leading instructor education courses for many years and given hundreds of seminars in lots of countries.
Both of them are highly skilled and accomplished martial arts instructors, they both run successful martial arts gyms, they have been leading instructor education courses for many years and given hundreds of seminars in lots of countries.
Still undecided?Paper doesn’t blush. We understand that you may lean a little bit on the skeptical side, because there is so many crab out there. You don’t want to pay for something you haven’t seen before. You don’t need to buy a pig in a poke. Watch our free video library and get a free insight into the FMA365 Online Academy. We show each and every technique in separate video clips. Each technique is with explanations, and shown in slow, medium and full speed, plus its typical applications. Parallel to the video clips you will get a program handbook in pdf format to follow the course also in written form and with step-by-step pictures. You will get a program handbook for each single level. Each of these books includes 400+ step-by-step pictures and detailed explanations. Have a look at our free video library. If you like what you see, join risk-free. You can cancel your membership easily and monthly. If you are really interested into FMA, this is your chance to become member of a big international community and learn FMA with the most professional and complete online training course. |