Classes
To-Shin Do martial arts techniques are based on ancient and well-tested warrior disciplines handed down by nine historical Japanese family lineages.
At the same time, our training is a very modern approach to handling the kinds of threats and confrontations most likely in our own contemporary culture
From your very first lesson, you will learn methods you can use right away, regardless of your physical condition or prior martial arts experience.
C.O.O.L. KIDZ
4-7 year olds have fun while learning how to learn, earning confidence, and gaining basic ways of thinking, speaking, and acting for self protection and self esteem. Respect for others is emphasized (kids enjoy helping other kids), with lots of focused concentration (kids thrive on it), and lots of laughter (kids love it). Classes are safe and non-competitive and emphasize learning how to learn.
Level 1 – Foundations of Self-Protection
Begin your adventure with a 32-class course in effective physical, intellectual, and emotional self-protection – an exciting excursion into empowering self development. Practice how to win in the 12 assault types most likely to occur in a dangerous confrontation, how to rescue others in those 12 threat situations, how to use 12 natural body self-defense tools, and how to develop the grounded presence of focused command in high-pressure situations.
Level 2 – Advanced Self-Protection
Build your skills in success-generating principles of personal confidence, ability to recognize potential danger as it builds, and capability to respond effectively under pressure as you explore a further set of 24 advanced applications of winning skill and strategy. A 72 class course adds advanced concepts in fighting footwork and intelligent power, and shows you how to develop the eyes and mind to recognize danger as it builds so you can be in just the right place at just the right moment to control the conflict on your terms.
Level 3 – Path of the Protector Martial Arts
Your training evolves into a personal exploration of power, a path of self-mastery. Your skill and confidence evolve as you explore a final set of 24 advanced applications in a 72 class course leading to Black Belt in To-Shin Do®. You know you are living up to your fullest potential, the “exciting peace” of coming home to the truth of just how strong you really are.
Level 4 – Black Belt Mastery
Learning doesn’t stop with earning a Black Belt – that’s where highest mastery begins! You personalize your training for a winning spirit in all of life’s challenges. Advanced skills you develop include how to use less effort to generate more speed and power, how to respond with grace and intelligence when confronted with brutality and ignorance, how to rescue and protect others, and how to deal with multiple attackers, assailants with weapons, or aggressors skilled in street-fighting or other martial arts.
Warrior Workshops
Weekly optional classes feature a range of special training opportunities. Explore the role of mind, attitude, emotion, and awareness in determining the outcomes of daily encounters through our mind science classes. Take on the challenge of classical training in traditional historical armed and unarmed training from our nine historical lineages from Japan. Learn how to share your knowledge in the training hall through courses in how to coach others to martial arts success. Study the techniques of dignitary protection bodyguard roles. Become certified in emergency first aid. Learn how to deliver – and take – a kick or hit in the movies.
Private Lessons
A great way to make accelerated progress. Phone us at 937 436-9990 so we can find out what you need and how we might build a program for you.