Combat Wrestling Instructor Certification

This weekend I went up to Mr. Stuart's Martial Arts.  It's an awesome martial arts training facility and he focuses on extreme physical fitness and reality self-defense.  His website is MrStuartsMartialArts.com and it's definitely the place to go if you're a police officer or in the military or you just want to learn life or death self-defense!

So, Mr. Stuart's school hosted a instructor certification in Combat Wrestling which is a supplement to his reality self-defense curriculum to be able to deal with wrestlers.  It was an 18 hour long course with techniques to master and at the end it certified one to teach it.  We didn't do a lot of conditioning with push-ups and stuff like that because the techniques took so much out of us that the coach didn't need to add it in.

The Coach was John Clarke.  He owns a martial arts school in Florida and is a police officer and SWAT team member in addition to a Pro-MMA fighter!  A lot of times the champions aren't good instructors, they just know how to beat people up, but Coach Clarke was an awesome instructor and really inspired us to train hard.  It was a really good time and I was happy to be able to bring back more tricks for the MMA class at ATA Elkton to use.  Check out John Clarke's school/ blog http://haganaheast.com/

Coach John Clarke and Josh Hayhurst