A:  Because we prepare you for the rigors of the streets and because our lives and the lives of those we love depend on it.  

Fights are explosive, chaotic, painful, unpredictable, exhausting and could be fatal.  When you are in a fight, you are fighting

for your life.  You can’t simply quit because you are tired or sore. 

In a real fight there is a good chance that you are going to get punched, kicked and choked and if your attacker has a knife,

you will probably get a cut or two.  If you have never been punched, kicked, thrown on the ground or choked, the shock of the

moment can be extremely overwhelming and will cause you to hesitate as you and your body recovers from the initial shock

of  ‘what just happened ?’ 

 How can you fight hard if you never train hard?

In a fight, time is against you.  You do not have the luxury of time to think about your options.  Your actions must be

immediate and the only way to make them that way is to prepare both your body and your mind for the realities of a fight. 

You do this through training so your body gets use to being punched, kicked, thrown to the ground and even choked.

Like I mentioned, fights are very demanding and exhausting.  You must have enough strength and endurance to fight off an

attack,  whether it be one or more attackers.  You may even have to run a distance before you have to fight because you heard

one of your children  or your wife screaming.

What good would you be to that person if you ran across a parking lot or field but was so exhausted from the run that you

could not fight off the attacker and help the person.   We have had many runners tell us that ‘Running is easy compared to

having to actually fight.’

We want students to understand that fighting on an open mat with no obstacles scattered around requires one set of skills,

but having to fight multiple attackers in extreme close quarters with tables, chairs, cars and other items requires another,

and having to fight on ground or in the snow and rain requires yet another another set of skills.

  The More We Sweat in Training

the Less We Bleed in Battle !