Self Defense

I wanted to recommend a self-defense instructor to my fellow brownstoners who I have been taking private lessons with over the past several months. He teaches “Renegade JKD” (JKD is Jeet Kune Do which is the combat style developed by Bruce Lee – see Wikipedia entry for a fairly good outline) and this new form is currently being taught to U.S. Special Forces. In fact, this instructor received his qualifications from one of the guys directly involved in this special forces training.

This is not a rigid, “belt driven” style of martial arts but combines a number of different styles (Muay Thai, Arnis, Wing Chun etc.) to create a highly effective, i.e. pretty nasty, intuitive style of self defense.

I’m posting this because 1) it’s a useful skill and 2) if more people in the FG/Bed-Stuy area got interested, he could expand to group lessons and there would be more opportunities for practice sessions etc. which I desperately need!

Anyway, email Josh at joshsj1@yahoo.com and tell him his oldest student sent you! He teaches out of his apartment in Bed-Stuy but I think that he will come to you. If you have any questions or want to keep in touch as you start training you can email me at fortgreeneparkrental@yahoo.com.