Adam Williss Martial Arts: When It Matters Most

We train bare knuckle, in street clothes and with shoes. We do this because we train for the street. We aren't concerned with training for the ring or for some other sports competition. We don't meet our adversary on the street and ask them to hang on a second while we take off our shoes, put on boxing gloves or tie our black-belt on straight. There are no belts at our school. No real uniform other than a t-shirt.

We don't train for sports competition or some rule-based match. If you want to train for sports competition, train in Tae Kwon Do, Kickboxing, MMA or Jiu Jitsu. We don't care about getting a championship trophy or holding a championship belt.

We don't train for ego either. We're not interested in how many people we can "take out" or how much of a bad ass others think we are. We're not some steroid-taking fight club that looks to beat people up. The last thing we want to do is actually have to use what we know on someone else.

However, if turns out that we do need to protect ourselves or our families... make no mistake, we train in order to handle ourselves when it matters most.

At Red Rebel Martial Arts, we teach the safest and most effective methods to strike that won't injure your hands in a street encounter. You learn how to deliver explosive force and maximize your power from the shortest possible distance. You learn where the opponent's natural targets are, how to flow around someone's overwhelming force and then how to use it against them. You learn where the best positions are for leverage, trapping and multiple attacks.

After getting most of the basic concepts down, beginners move on to more intensive training including sparring at different ranges. Safety is always a top priority, especially when sparring. Sparring begins as analytical and very light and then moves on to become more intense as the student's skill and control increases. Sparring includes training with both cooperative and uncooperative training partners. Both are equally as important in the student's development. Everyone spars against fully resisting opponents. As such, you cannot fake being good at Wing Chun. Chi Sao is a sensitivity development exercise that is incorporated into sparring at bridging (or hand shaking) distance. It develops the unique ability to feel (with your arms) weaknesses in the opponent's defenses in order to capitalize on them.

There's plenty more to it, but hopefully that gives you a small glimpse into what makes us what we are. But the bottom line is... we train to be able to safely handle ourselves effectively when it matters most. That's our specialty.

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