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Long-Term and Certification ProgramsMartial Arts: Training for anyone who wants to learn self defense |
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One-night classes held on Saturday evenings |
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| Knife Defense Gun Defense Tactical Jaw and Limb Control Tactical Ground Fighting Self Defense Key Chain Cane/Umbrella Steel Fan |
Child Abduction Prevention Strategies for Parents |
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Martial Arts and Civilian Self Defense:
"A life in the arena is the only life worth living."
Phil Messina
1. THIS IS YOUR FIRST STEP to joining our weekly Bo Fung Do martial arts classes! Print and fill out this MW Application Form
2. Fax your completed application to 631-226-5454, drop it off or snail mail it to us: 711 North Wellwood Avenue, Lindenhurst, NY 11757. We're just north of Straight Path, next door to CVS and across the street from Gino's pizzeria.
This short application is used for the Martial Arts program for those 18 and up. We will (under certain circumstances and with certain scholastic and parental requirements/permission) take females who are between 14 - 17 and males who are between 15 - 17. Call for more information if applicable.
We're still accepting applications for the new Martial arts group, which runs from 7:15 pm - 8:45 pm on Thursdays and 11 am - 12:30 pm on Saturdays. You can join up through Lesson 8, so get your application in today! Both Civilians and Law Enforcement are welcome.
3. You can download a copy of our student handbook or call us right now at 631-226-8383 and we'll send you a free copy. Plus, you can make an appointment to watch a class! If we're not in the office, leave a voicemail and we'll call you back.
That's it!
You've just taken the three quick and easy steps to starting the training
that will enhance everything you do!
Silverbacks:
Mondays 9-10 am, 8-9 pm
Saturdays -2 pm
This ongoing martial arts course follows the philosophy that a student who is prone to injury due to age or physical limitation can still be effectively trained in a realistic, self defense oriented martial arts system.
Lead Instructor Phil Messina emphasizes timing, tactics and tricks to get the job done quickly, efficiently and above all, effectively.
Perfect for those 55 and older or other mature adults with chronic ailments or physical limitations wishing to maintain a high level of combat prowess while sustaining the ability to protect themselves and their loved ones in a life or death situation.
Students will learn:
- Empty handed techniques
- The use of everyday items such as canes, umbrellas and more as effective improvised weapons
- Our solid, research based, energy saving strategies & tactics
- Moderately paced, low impact training
This gives new meaning to the term Baby "Boomer!"
8 Week Female Self Defense:
See our Upcoming Events page for start dates.
For females 12 and older, this empowering course changes lives! You’ll feel safer knowing when, where and how to hit. Classes run for an hour and a half each week and include Improvised Weapons, Blocking, Groundfighting, Throws, Breaking Holds and Kicks, just to name a few.
At the end of the course, we suit up our “bad guys” in protective gear and you get to go full force with all that you’ve learned in our Confrontational Simulations! How cool!
Just $195 if paid in full within 1 week prior to course start date.
OR use our Pay-As-You-Go Plan for a total of $225. ($50 deposit required at sign up for either option.)
Group discounts available.
Don’t wait any longer. NOW is the time to do it. If you or a woman you care about wants to feel safer, this course is a must.
You’ll walk out knowing you can WIN a violent confrontation against a bigger, stronger, faster attacker! Going to work, being out shopping or just taking a walk will feel different when you've completed this course. You’ll carry yourself more confidently and there is no doubt that you’ll project your confidence to all who see you.
This is a course held once a week for an hour and a half. We encourage you to call and make an appointment to watch a class so you can see how practical, fun and realistic what we do is and how it can fit for you.
Learn the following topics & more...
- Strategy – what to do and when to do it
- Blocking – how not to get hit
- Offense – the most effective, economical strikes
- Kicks – best targets for kicking the bad guy
- Groundfighting – just another place to win from!!!
- Breaking Holds & Throws - break out of different types of holds and grasp what makes a throw work
This course features a different topic each week with review along the way. We have a high instructor to student ratio so each student gets the individual attention they deserve.
Hundreds of women have taken this course - now it's YOUR turn
This course is a life changing experience. Register ASAP to reserve your place! Limited openings!
Change your life! Call NOW!
(631) 226-8383
Wolverinz Youth Martial Arts Program:
$85 per month for 1 child, $75 for the second child, $65 for additional children!
For more details, go to the Wolverinz page.
3-Day C.A.S.T. (Confined Area Safety/Survival Training):
See our upcoming events page for dates.
An intensive three day course with basic or instructor certification at the end. This program is designed for persons working in confined areas such as airplanes, school buses, trains, etc. or for law enforcement officers who may find themselves in common carriers. It is easily adapted to living rooms, kitchens, office environments, courtrooms, etc. The class also includes a "Cockpit Combat Component” which will allow those in control of common carriers to inflict both debilitating and lethal force while being strapped into a safety seat.
This class is highly appropriate for law enforcement officers as it includes such information as: officer as hostage scenarios, citizen as hostage scenarios, dealing with crowds of civilians in high risk confined area scenarios and much more. Upon completion of the three day Instructor course, participants will be able to teach the most critical basic tenets of the program with others who may find themselves in similar situations
$60 with advance registration
For more details, go to the C.A.S.T. page.
Five Day Defensive Tactics Instructor’s Course:
See our upcoming events page for dates.
Now Held at Modern Warrior® Headquarters! There is no other course offered anywhere that offers this type of instructor training. Specific techniques are chosen for their ability to demonstrate particular concepts - concepts which are vital for the defensive tactics instructor to be completely familiar with in order to be the most effective trainer possible. These concepts include (but are not limited to): Physio-kinetics, Time-framing, multiple assailant confrontation, edged weapons defense, instinctive firearm retention and gun disarming, FAST (Firearm Alternative Survival Tactics), tactical groundfighting and confrontational handcuffing.
Liability protection is discussed throughout different points in the course, with the main emphasis on developing and sharpening the instructor’s various teaching and defensive tactics skills, including the area of adjusting to individual student skill levels and answering “What if?” questions. Course is held Mon-Fri, 8-9 hour training days for five days. This course is being offered again soon.
Saturday Night Seminars:
These courses are 4 hours long and are conducted in an informal atmosphere. Class sizes are limited. Instructor-to-student ratios are high.
Knife Defense: A course designed to keep YOU on the attack when confronted with an edged weapon.
Participants will learn simple concepts that work empty handed or against all types of edged weapons, regardless of angle of attack. Practical and realistic, easy to learn and easy to remember and employ under stress.
$60 with advance registration
Gun Defense: Learn to do it instinctively, even blindfolded!
We’ll show you how to defend against a long or short gun pointed at your head or body.This three hour course presents simple, effective techniques for retaining your firearm and disarming an assailant of a handgun, rifle or shotgun. The techniques are street-proven and the concepts are presented in a clear and thorough manner so you will be able to take these skills straight into the real world!
The Modern Warrior® firearm retention and disarming program provides you with the highest possible margin for error, taking into account injuries, multiple assailants and the environment.
You'll walk out of this class feeling confident that you can not only survive against an attacker armed with a gun, but YOU CAN WIN. It’s one of the most heavily researched classes offered at Modern Warrior®. The concepts are simple and effective. Learn to do it instinctively, even blindfolded!
This class is open to Law Enforcement and pre-screened civilians only.
$60 with advance registration
Tactical Jaw and Limb Control:
Phil's favorite example of Physio-kinetics™, the science of influencing a person’s natural balance, motion and power, is that old song: "The leg bone connected to the knee bone, the knee bone connected to the thigh bone, the thigh bone connected to the back bone..." It's a fabulous illustration of how our bodies are connected in relation to the principles of Physio-kinetics.
When you grasp these easy to learn concepts, influencing an opponent's body will seem MUCH more effortless. This neat class, as only Phil can do it, greatly enhances your other self defense skills. It enables you to more safely transition to offense or to very quickly and simply take an opponent down.
$60 with advance registration
Tactical Ground Fighting: Getting knocked to the ground during a confrontation isn't the end of the fight-it's just another place from which to win. Learn to fight and win against multiple attackers from the ground. More Details
Self Defense Key Chain: A Nationally Certified Self Defense Course
- A 4 hour course on selected Saturday evenings from 6-10 p.m.
- Protect yourself with this legal self defense device.
- A practical keychain that you can carry with you at all times.
- Learn dozens of techniques, from passive to aggressive.
- Covers low levels of force to life and death situations.
Cane/Umbrella:
Find out how you can use these everyday items as self-defense tools. They are both convenient to carry and easy to employ. We promise that after this class, you’ll never look at a rainy day in quite the same way…
Steel Fan:
Back by popular demand! It’s not only great for keeping cool in the hot summer weather, it’s a compact, easy to use weapon.
Student Protection and Controlled Escape Program (S.P.A.C.E.):
Modern Warrior’s response to the growing problem of violence in our schools, this class is ideal for those who work in education – at ALL levels. It gives faculty and staff alternatives that keep everyone safer in the event that a violent intruder enters a school building – with or without a weapon.
From innovative ways to set up the classroom to addressing the school bully, this is a MUST for those who work in our schools.
$60 with advance registration
Click here for more details on the SPACE program.
Protect Your Kids! Child Abduction Prevention Strategies for Parents:
By The Carlie's Crusade Foundation Inc.; hosted by Modern Warrior, this is a workshop for parents to learn strategies to teach to their children to help prevent abduction and molestation. Plus, tips on choosing a Day Care facility or Babysitter and how to help keep your kids safe from internet predators.
Learn more about this Foundation, named for Carlie Brucia, an 11 year old girl who was abducted and murdered in Florida in 2004: www.CarliesCrusade.org
$60 with advance registration
Free Rape Prevention:
Selected Saturday evenings from 5:45-10 pm.
See our Upcoming Events page for dates.
A totally FREE, no commitment class that’s open to females 12 and older. We’ve been teaching this community service class for over 20 years. You CAN learn effective strategies, tactics and techniques that will help you win a confrontation against a bigger, stronger, faster attacker! We’re always booked well in advance; early registration is highly recommended.
Refundable $25 deposit per person is required to hold a place in the class.
Rape Prevention Instructor Certification 1 day Course:
Participate in 8.5 intense hours of Instructor Development. Learn all facets of how to teach this topic so your students can be successful. Become a Modern Warrior Certified Rape Prevention Instructor. See what makes this course so popular! Learn why instructors from around the globe travel to our facility to participate in this training. It’s an easy to follow course outline so you can leave this course and teach it right away!
Open to FSD Trainers; limited openings.
Confronting Multiple Assailants: At Modern Warrior, this is our specialty! Learn to defend yourself and win against a group of attackers. Exciting and intense, this class will forever change the way you think about fighting multiple opponents! Learn the simple concepts that boost your confidence and give you the TOOLS TO WIN when facing any group of potential attackers. They'll sense it and you'll know it.
That feeling is priceless and could very well save your life! Protect your family, protect your future and get this training now.
$60 with advance registration
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Environmental Simulation: What if you’re in a fight in the rain or the snow? How about windy or foggy conditions? Train in our Outdoor Environmental Simulator Room and learn how to WIN in less than perfect conditions! Train on slippery ground with low lighting and loud noises. Practice for REAL WORLD combat here and you’ll be ready for what comes at you out there.
$60 with advance registration
Our Outdoor Simulator Room: Equipped with torrential rain, blinding snow, hurricane fans, thunder and lightning. It even has the occasional booby trap to force students to adapt to the unexpected. Fight in settings with uneven and slippery footing, in an elevator, a hallway and a car. An experience not to be missed! See pictures.
The Indoor Simulator Room: The newest addition to the Modern Warrior training facility. This room has several typical rooms filled with foam furniture for safely training against attack that may come at any point in the day. Learn to fight off a home invasion in our bedroom. Fight off a rapist in your living room. Stop an irate client in our foam furniture office.
Breaking Holds and Grappling-
Would you know what to do if you got grabbed from behind with your arms pinned?
What if an assailant grabbed your hair or clothing? What about wrist grabs?
Find out how to break out of or exploit ANY kind of grab or hold an attacker can use!
$60 with advance registration
Chi Sao (sticking hands)
"Thanks again for your persistent contribution to saving law enforcement officers' lives!"
- Capt. Michael P. Gardner, Warren Co. Sheriff's Office, Ohio