standing and fighting, with combinations and footwork to set up takedowns. He also presents some vital defensive skills for NAPMA members to use to help ensure a more effective stand-up game for MMA.

Mark Graden, NAPMA’s director of martial arts curriculum and 6th-Degree Black Belt under Joe Lewis, demonstrates some powerful kick sets to improve your students’ kicks. This segment includes kicking combinations, used as conditioning training, to develop quick initial motion, kicking speed, power and recovery.

Rocky DiRico of Team Paul Mitchell brings to NAPMA members an exciting, traditional Bo form. Although it’s not one of the original Okinawan Bo forms, Mr. DiRico’s contains elements of those forms, and includes an explosive pattern that will work great in traditional weapons competition.

Take a video tour of Brad Jones’ successful school in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, which is a renovated old movie house. Students and visitors pass a quiet fountain as they enter the Japanese interior design, with hardwood and stone accents.