About Our Style
At Valiant Martial Arts, we believe there is more to martial arts than a single style or approach.
Our training brings together multiple martial arts disciplines and training concepts to create a well-rounded, practical, and adaptable martial arts program. Rather than limiting our students to one system, we draw from different arts and focus on the skills and principles each one brings to the training.
Our core training incorporates Kajukenpo, Muay Thai, Krav Maga, and Escrima, supported by a broader foundation of martial arts knowledge and experience.
Each discipline has its own strengths, training methods, and areas of focus.
Together, they help our students develop striking, movement, coordination, timing, awareness, defensive skills, confidence, and practical martial arts ability.
The goal isn't to learn a collection of unrelated techniques.
The goal is to become a more capable and well-rounded martial artist.
Kajukenpo
Kajukenpo is a modern hybrid martial art that developed in Hawaii during the 1940s. Its name reflects the combination of several martial arts traditions, including Karate, Judo/Jujitsu, Kenpo, and Boxing.
As a hybrid system, Kajukenpo was designed to bring together different approaches to fighting rather than limiting practitioners to a single style or range. Its training can incorporate striking, kicking, blocking, movement, combinations, takedowns, and close-range techniques.
At Valiant Martial Arts, Kajukenpo provides a broad foundation for understanding how different martial arts concepts can work together. It reinforces adaptability and helps students develop the ability to use different tools depending on the situation.
Muay Thai
Muay Thai is a martial art and combat sport that originated in Thailand, developing from traditional Thai fighting systems over hundreds of years. It is often referred to as the “Art of Eight Limbs” because it uses the hands, feet, knees, and elbows as primary weapons.
At Valiant Martial Arts, Muay Thai training focuses on developing strong fundamentals in striking, footwork, combinations, defensive movement, timing, distance management, and conditioning.
Through pad work, partner drills, combinations, and controlled training, students develop technical ability while improving their fitness and coordination.
Muay Thai also develops discipline, composure, consistency, and perseverance. Whether you're training for fitness, developing your martial arts skills, or building confidence, it provides a strong foundation for becoming a more capable striker.
Krav Maga
Krav Maga was developed in the 20th century by Imi Lichtenfeld, who developed the system around practical self-defense and the realities of personal protection. It was later adopted and developed for military and civilian self-defense training.
Rather than being centered around competition, Krav Maga emphasizes practical responses, awareness, simplicity, and functioning under pressure.
At Valiant Martial Arts, our reality-based self-defense program draws from Krav Maga concepts along with our broader martial arts experience. We focus on more than simply memorizing techniques. Students learn to recognize potential threats, understand positioning and distance, make decisions under pressure, and respond appropriately to potentially dangerous situations.
Training can include awareness, avoidance, defensive movement, striking, escapes, and other practical concepts appropriate to the student's age and experience.
We emphasize an important principle:
The goal of self-defense is to get yourself to safety—not to win a fight.
Escrima
Escrima, also known as Filipino Martial Arts (FMA), refers to a group of martial arts traditions from the Philippines. These arts have a long history of weapons and empty-hand training, with systems traditionally emphasizing tools such as sticks and blades alongside unarmed techniques.
One of the distinguishing features of Escrima is its focus on angles, timing, movement, distance, and coordination. Training with weapons can also help students develop skills that transfer into empty-hand martial arts.
At Valiant Martial Arts, Escrima helps students develop hand-eye coordination, timing, movement, awareness, angles, and distance management.
The training also reinforces an important martial arts principle: understanding the concept behind a technique is often more valuable than simply memorizing a single movement.
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