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Pensacola Martial Arts is the home of the Chuan Fa Martial Arts Association founded by Soke Dennis Fitch who is a 10th Dan in Chuan Fa Kenpo and a Senior Teacher in White Heron Tai Chi Chuan.

The martial arts were born out of the necessity for people to protect themselves from those who would seek to do them harm and in later times their villages and nations. The culmination of these ancient skills have been passed from father to son and teacher to student for thousands of years. In keeping with this tradition, we have codified a system of self defense, healing and conditioning that serve to pass the accumulated knowledge we have amassed over years of dedicated training to our students exactly as it was passed to us.

This art is based in realistic analysis and use of tried and proven techniques that apply the physics and laws of nature to the cause of self preservation and defense. Chuan Fa means to understand the laws of nature and to apply them in an learned way. We do not have the luxury of selecting the time, location or circumstances of our self defense but we do have the power to control our conditioning, self reliance, strategy, and level of response in order to influence the outcome of the situation.

There is no place in this art for political correctness, religious preference, or intolerance of others. When you are accepted as a student you are treated with respect and honor while in our care and failure to take that responsibility with the highest regard will not be tolerated by our instructors.

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Modern Street Self Defense Study
Chuan Fa Kenpo is a system of practical and modern self-defense designed to offer the student a realistic training regimen that combines blocking, striking, kicking, throwing, and control techniques for defense against commonly occurring self defense situations without the fear of being injured. Kenpo is not a system of sport designed for points or trophies rather it is known throughout the world as a self defense oriented style that incorporates rapid punches and kicks in succession to devastating effect.

This class combines the five main components of all martial arts into one comprehensive program that produces a well rounded and highly proficient martial artists. You will learn the striking, kicking and blocking of Karate, the joint locks, throws and takedowns of Judo, the ground fighting techniques of Jujitsu, the weapons defenses of modern military and law enforcement combatives, and strategies for multiple person assault situations. The black belts in this program have a thorough understanding of the physiology and psychology of conflict and how it effects the body under great stress which allows them to use this knowledge to their advantage when necessary. Students are expected to become resourceful, adaptive and knowledgeable in all aspects of the art so that they are successful applying it to situations where the consequences of failure are significant and prolonged.

During the program students progress from learning simple techniques against street attacks like grabs and chokes common in strong arm robbery and bullying situations. As the student becomes more comfortable with basic techniques they move on to defense against full speed punches and kicks. After building confidence against unarmed attackers, the student begins to learn defenses against blunt force weapons like clubs, pipes, and other non-edged weapons. Training intensifies with the addition of basic edged weapon defenses common in more dangerous attacks where knives or broken bottles are employed. At black belt, students start to combine all previous techniques and add handgun disarms and self defense against multiple attackers. Weapons training focuses on using improvised weapons, commonly found items in homes or offices, and employing weapons taken from assailants to repel further aggression. The program attempts to replicate many of the self defense situations that are reported by victims of violent crime so that our students are constantly exposed to the most likely self defense scenarios that they may encounter in everyday life.

Testing is always challenging, unpredictable and filled with surprises to keep students from becoming complacent in their skills.Our students include business professionals, high school students, military personnel and law enforcement officers. Students describe the program as a “comprehensive, no nonsense, challenging, and empowering.”  Our Military and Law Enforcement students describe the course as highly applicable and technically thorough. (Minimum Age for Students is 12) Located at East Pensacola Heights Center 3208 E. Gonzalez Street, Pensacola, Florida 32503 850-393-1106 Mr Ksatreya (talk) 05:59, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Modern Street Fighting Study
Exploration of Modern Street Fighting Male vs. Male (Unarmed) November 27, 2014 Americans love freedom and equality. Maybe that’s why we are so enamored with the idea of two clinched-jawed gentlemen solving a vigorous disagreement with the time honored exchange of fisticuffs known as a “fair fight”. Apparently winning the fight validates the victors’ argument but it seems to be an exercise in futility because the vanquished fighter rarely accepts the defeat and changes his opinion. What exactly constitutes a “fair fight”? Does it still exist among the common man of today or was it always a romanticized cinematic ideal? In the sporting world, states and municipalities have gone to great lengths to ensure that sporting events like wrestling, boxing, kickboxing and mixed martial arts are fairly conducted. Participants must be of equal weight, same gender, and pass strict medical examinations to ensure that neither side has an unfair advantage. Head butts, biting; knees to downed opponents and blows to the back of the head have all been made illegal because of their absolute effectiveness but outright disdain among fans. What happens when unsupervised and untrained people fail to reach an agreement with words and decided to resort to the violence of our ancestors? In this study, we set out to explore the real physical actions that occur between common men when an organic fight happens. In order to further study the specific subject of “fair fights”, we decided to use a medium that has never been available before to study the sequence of events that leads to a physical fight and the results. In prior years, martial arts students learned about physical conflict from first hand experiences of their teachers and second or third hand accounts retold from others. The deficiency in these accounts is that they are subject to interpretation and omission. A picture is truly worth a thousand words and a video is worth a million so we went to YouTube to study modern conflicts in real time. In order to specifically study the individual one-on-one conflicts, we set parameters to reduce the fights to a specifically measurable set of standards. Below are the parameters used to narrow fights to a specific type for detailed study; 1. Twenty common fighting occurrences were observed in each of thirty fights. 2. All fights were one-on-one between male combatants between the ages of 13-50. 3. All fights were observed from prefight posturing to separation of the fighters. 4. No weapons were involved. 5. Only fights between untrained participants were used in the study. 6. No obvious alcohol or drug impairment was discernible. 7. No fighter was cornered or place in a must fight position. 8. Both fighters were of similar size. (within 50-75bs.) 9. The shortest fight lasted 2 seconds and the longest lasted 136 seconds. 10. All national and ethnic groups were included. 11. Weather conditions and surfaces did not play a role in the selection. 12. Fights where alcohol was noticeably affecting either person were excluded. The individual fights were then observed and timed. A comparison of the outcomes of each fight is included for further review in Table 1. Observations We have included a list of observations made from the data collected from the fights. 1. All fights could have been avoided with a simple exit (walk away). 2. Forty percent of participants were standing within three feet of one another with both parties having their hands down to the side or below the waist when the first blow was thrown. 3. The aggressor “won” about fifty percent of the fights. 4. The larger fighter won about sixty percent of the fights even if he did not start them. 5. Five fights ended in a first punch knockout (KO) when the hands were down to the side. 6. Four ended with a KO when the two fighters both started in a fighting stance. 7. Twenty one of thirty (70%) fights ended with the victor standing and the loser on the ground. 8. Nine of thirty (30%) fights ended with both fighters on the ground and one fighter punching down from a mounted position. 9. Due to the short duration of the fights, conditioning played little role in the outcome. 10. Kicks, knees and stomps were very effective but rarely used. Only three fights involved kicks, knees or stomps but they ended all three. 11. Thirteen of thirty (43%) fights involved effective punch combinations. 12. “Sucker punches/haymakers” from inside three feet were highly effective and ended five of nine fights. 13. “Sucker punches/haymakers” from outside three feet were less accurate and often missed or did little damage to the victim. 14. Six of thirty fights involved tackles, throws or takedowns. None of these techniques ended the fight and only three of six effected the ultimate outcome. (Note: Some of the observed fights involved a throw that ended the fight but they     were excluded from the study because there was outside intervention on the footage      that precluded full study of the end of the fight.) Conclusions Some of the most popular anecdotal theories about how fights start and end are not supported by these observations. They are either no longer the normal occurrences or were never accurately evidenced. The information included in this study is intended to shed light upon the true nature of unscripted and spontaneous conflict so that instructors can better understand and use this information to improve teaching methods for self-defense. The study is executed with sufficient specificity to allow it to be recreated and tested by other members of the martial arts teaching community. The findings will either validate or invalidate long held perceptions and opinions about the nature of self-defense. Our findings: 1. All fights involved two willing participants with an ability to walk away. 2. Even knowing that emotions were high and personal space was invaded, participants failed to take the two most basic self-defense steps available. Create space and raise your hands. They regularly paid the price. 3. The aggressor loses as often as he wins. 4. The larger fighter wins a majority of the time. 5. Unskilled people who had their hands up and three to five feet of space were difficult to take down and defeat even against larger fighters. 6. One third of the fights ended with a single punch knockout, one third ended with a  knock down and a follow on punch or kick from standing aggressor that ended the fight, and one third ended with the victor top mounted on the loser ending the fight with “ground and pound”. 7. The victors rarely showed mercy or any willingness to cease their attack once they gained an advantage. 8. Strikes to the back of downed and or injured opponents were commonplace. 9. All of the fights ended with the victor either standing over the loser or mounted atop them. No fighter won from the lower position. Summary In the study of self defense, the evidence clearly supports avoidance, distance, a solid fighting stance, and the ability to maneuver on the ground as key factors. What we learned: 1. Avoid physical confrontations when possible. 2. Walking away is a readily available opportunity in most cases. 3. Maintain your personal space out to five feet when being confronted. 4. Do not hesitate to raise your hands at least chest high when your personal space is  encroached. 5. If you must engage someone, do not stop when the person is felled, strike until they submit or stop resisting you. 6. Basic ground fighting skills are invaluable when you are in actual fighting situation. (Nine out of nine fights that ended on the ground were ended by a top mount.) 7. The average fighter is highly inaccurate after the first punch is thrown. W. Shane Francis Program Director, Pensacola Martial Arts. Table 1. Ksatreya (talk) 06:01, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Ksatreya Ksatreya (talk) 06:02, 13 February 2018 (UTC)