Modern Arnis (Filipino Stick Fighting)

Modern Arnis is a Filipino martial art which emphasizes self-defense against various weapons.  It is a very practical art like Kenpo.  It teaches how to defend against an armed or unarmed attacker. Arnis utilizes two 25” rattan sticks in many of its techniques.  Knife and stick disarms, and stick methods of defensive and offensive skills, etc. are taught and reviewed in all classes.  As in Kenpo, Modern Arnis includes basics, self-defense techniques, katas and free sparring.

The principles and concepts of empty hand and stick techniques translate and apply very well to Kenpo and all martial arts.  In particular, your co-ordination, reactions, timing, strength, control, and “flow” from one technique to another will be enhanced.

One of the big things you will find while training in Modern Arnis classes is that it will develop the “feel” in both your right and left hands.  Also, the ability to “switch” from defensive to offensive techniques will become very natural with time.

Modern Arnis is a Great 
Cross Training Sport

Any sport (baseball, softball, hockey, lacrosse, tennis, racquetball, squash, polo, golf, etc.) that uses a piece of equipment such as a stick, bat, or racquet will be helped by training in Modern Arnis…Simply put, when a person trains with something similar to the equipment that is used in his or her sport, the sport will be improved also because the ‘feel’ and ‘mechanics’ develop a kinesthetic ‘mind-body connection.  Many athletes and ‘wanna be athletes’ have seen tremendous improvement in their ‘focus’ and physical abilities….this in turn has given them the boost to the next level of their game that they were looking for or that came as a pleasant but unexpected surprise.

Is it Safe?

YES!!! And FUN!!!  All Classes are taught and supervised with safety in mind.  We emphasize teamwork and cooperation…working together.

How do I get started?

We are currently teaching Modern Arnis in special classes and will soon be incorporating it into our Kenpo Karate curriculum and classes.

Give us a call and set up an appointment to come in or Click on  "Free Introductory Program" here or to the right.  It's as easy as that...and you will be on your way to learning exciting and practical, yet safely taught, self-defense skills 

American Karate Studios Was the  First School to Teach Modern Arnis in Delaware!

In 1983, Jim Clapp and Judy Anderson O'Neill brought Remy Presas, the founder and Grandmaster of Modern Arnis, to Delaware to introduce his art.  From that point forward, Modern Arnis has flourished in the East Coast's Mid-Atlantic region due, in large part, to the promotion and teaching of the art by the Clapp/O'Neill and AKS. 

Currently, Jim Clapp is one of the highest ranked Black Belts in Modern Arnis.  He holds the rank of 5th Degree under the Grandmaster himself.  Judy Anderson O'Neill holds the rank of 2nd Degree Black Belt.  Together, in the mid-1980's,  they helped the 'Professor' (the name by which the Modern Arnis practitioners call Grandmaster Presas) produce,  choreograph, film, edit, and perform in six instructional video tapes which have been best sellers internationally.  These video tapes are titled appropriately "Modern Arnis by Remy Presas". 

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