Orange County Martial Arts Center

Belt promotions for Andre and Edgar last night - congrats Gentlemen, you earned it!

Two more belt promotions last night - congrats Junior & Oliver. Well deserved gentlemen!

Belt/Rank promotions are one of my favorite joys of being an instructor. Congrats Alondra and Andre - your hard work paid off!

Fun class earlier this week - everyone put in some hard work on footwork and armbar drills.

It's that time again.

Midway City Community Center will be closed on February 25th in observance of President's Day, therefore we will not have class that day.

Easy takedowns for handling an aggressive opponent from the Clinch/Body Lock position.

It was great seeing this guy back in the dojang tonight - welcome back from Korea Ed!

Edgar getting to it on the pads tonight!

Steve getting promoted to his Brown Belt 2nd stripe - next stop....Black Belt. Congrats Steve, you deserve it!

Congrats to Andre on his Green Belt promotion!

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Tonight's crew putting in some sweat equity!

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Monday night kicking work!

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Nice write up...although written for BJJ, this can apply to any martial art style with a sporting element to it.

My two favorite training tools in my home dojo. If you are serious about training in Hapkido/Jujitsu & Karate/Taekwondo/Kickboxing related arts, these are two of the best investments you can make.

..Kierra likes the kick as well.

Samantha's favorite new kick.

Trying to attain that perfect form...

The calm before the storm...

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Great program - it would be awesome to see this grow: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10153048111760839&id=39228950838

Alondra working over her "training partner" like a champ!

It's always fun watching the little guys work!

Just a little grappling defense work...

A couple photos snapped by one of the parents during a recent class - thanks Johanna!

Photo of myself with Master Israel Olivencia, Grandmaster Kami Moghaddam and Grandmaster In Sun Seo at the World Kido Federation member summit this past weekend.

Makes perfect sense.

As an instructor, Rank promotions are one of my favorites things to do. Congrats to Samantha, Junior, Alondra and Kierra!

...And some more circuit training for a Monday night.

Black Belt training session with the Grandmaster.

Sonny & Ron putting in some work on the mat.

Striking & power circuit followed by some grappling drills - Feel The Burn! Not a bad way to roll into the end of the week...

Good job to Phillip & Andre for your great work in our cross-academy sparring session with Moon Stars Taekwondo. Way to represent our academy gentlemen!

It's always great watching students grapple live for the first time after continuously drilling various submissions, sweeps & escapes and successfully pulling them off. Great job Ryan & Phillip!

Happy New Year! I wanted to announce that we've made a change to our class days. Moving forward, classes will now be help Mondays and Fridays. As our academy continues to grow, we hope to add more classes soon. See you on the mat!

Congrats to all those who received rank promotions tonight - you've all worked hard and deserve it!

Read a great quote today: "Hard work will beat talent when talent refuses to work hard".

Great class tonight...great conditioning work on the heavy bag and Thai pads followed up by tough grappling session between myself and Sonny.

Our website is now live! Check it out at: www.ocmartialartscenter.com

Presenting the official launch to the Facebook page of Orange County Martial Arts Center. The focus of our training is to mix the modern integrated combat applications of Mixed Martial Arts with the techniques and focused applications of Traditional Martial Arts for a well-rounded Traditional Mixed Martial Arts program.