FAQs
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
There is an initial call to learn about your needs, goals, and health status. We will then set up a time to train. When we train, you will train. I will work within your comfort levels while also pushing you outside of them at times.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
I have over 30 years of martial arts experience with 15 of those instructing. I am the only Fully Qualified Instructor in Balintawak Eskrima Cuentada System under Grandmaster Bobby Taboada. I am also an instructor in Putakti Arnis under Master Jorge Penafiel. I have 27 years of experience training Hapkido. I hold a Mastersd Degree in Design Methods. I also have the equivalent of a Masters Degree in Social Emotional Intelligence. I have taken done Anatomy and Physiology coursework. I have also been in a number of fights in my life and used my martial art skills to protect myself and my family, including defending against a knife several times.
- How did you get started doing this type of work?
I started martial arts as a boy with my best friend and his older brother and sister. I came back to it as a young adult to help level up my life at the time. After I had been training for a number of years I started teaching the children's class to help pay for my lessons. Later on, when I moved to Chicago, I realised I would have to teach someone to be able to train at the level that I wanted.