About Anderson-Kali

Anderson-Kali is the result of over 30 years of martial arts training and real-world street combat experience.  AK is a hybrid system based in Filipino martial arts with a strong emphasis on the tactical folding blade carried by many people today.  It is equally strong in its empty-handed component. Traditional eskrima stick is practiced with our focus on fluidity and fighting within the various ranges.  To me it is important to know the traditional foundation from which you came and to appreciate it.  Most FMA school have abandoned their foundation and now strictly teach combat knife fighting.  Not Anderson Kali our history is who we are.

With the introduction of the UFC we watched as many eyes were opened to a new and brutal form of fighting.  Martial Artists and non-martial artists both had a wakeup call.  There was a mad dash to the nearest BJJ (Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu) school everyone had to learn ground fighting and it made sense.  If the grapplers are kicking everyone’s ass then you should learn how to grapple.  Only the ignorant think otherwise.

Today it is common for most people to carry a blade of some sort.  With the ever-growing knife culture in our society and more and more people carrying knives the validity and combat effectiveness of traditional self-defense systems and styles that people have trained in have all now come into question.  Can just any karate school teach effective knife defenses?  Has what you’ve learned over the years given you the correct skill sets needed to defend against a blade?

Combat at its core is about the ability to adapt.  If you do not adapt and learn new skills then you will become stagnant and ineffective.  Along with the growing knife culture there are new forms of self-defense emerging.  These new forms are classified as Combatives.  Combatives schools focus on the down and dirty world of combat in all its true ugliness.  It is here that you will learn true combat and how devastating it really is.

We are a Combatives School focusing on surviving life threatening violence by any means necessary.  Our training is composed of edged weapons knife fighting, blunt weapons stick fighting, and brutally effective empty-handed defense and offense.  Thats it!   Students also learn the use of every day items as weapons.   Other skill sets include elbows, knees, eye gouging, head butts, stomps, limb destructions, trapping, take-downs, boxing, low-line kicks, if it works we use it.

The Anderson Kali method of teaching is called “Mayhem Combatives” or “Mayhem Method” it is actually a “Concept Driven” System of teaching helps you reprogram your subconscious mind with combat effective reactions as opposed to conscious minded actions.  We all know conscious action is slower than sub-conscious reaction.  .

Combat evolves every day, our training must evolve with it.