Martial Arts Background I started my martial arts journey at the age of six. At the age of fifteen, I was exposed to Jiu-Jitsu and instantly fell in love with the art. Upon graduating from high school, I was introduced to Grand Master Shoto Tanemura, and began to fulfill my childhood dream of training with the masters in Japan. I spent years training with Tanemura Sensei and other Japanese Jiu-Jitsu masters in Japan. Upon returning from Japan, I opened the Full Circle Jiu-Jitsu Academy, located in Mineola, New York. Over the past twenty years, I have trained with some of the top martial artists in the world in various fighting styles including Japanese Ju-Jutsu, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing, kickboxing, MMA, Filipino stick and knife fighting, and Keysi Fighting Method. I have also competed at the amateur and professional level in kickboxing and Mixed Martial Arts, and I hold a sixth-degree black belt in Japanese Ju-Jutsu, a second-degree black belt in Walt Bayless’ Combat Jiu-Jitsu, and various black belts in other Japanese Ju-Jutsu styles. In addition, I have worked with numerous law enforcement agencies and I am the lead tactics instructor for an international security agency. Additionally, I just opened the first East Coast Keysi Self-Defense Academy. KEYSI ACADEMY LONG ISLAND Located in: DANCE XTREME
| Keysi Fighting Method KEYSI is a martial arts method created to act and react while defending yourself. It originated in Spain during 1980 and was born from the life experience, study, and investigation of it’s creator and founder Justo Dieguez. With purely Spanish roots; consisting of the Flamenco and the bull, KEYSI, which is also known to be the creator’s / founder’s, Justo Dieguez’s, nickname, is a method of personal defense based on one’s instinct and personal growth. It was created through life experience’s encountered within the streets, influenced through year’s of studies and research in other martial arts. As a result, it has evolved and become one of the most effective methods of self defense, which is now internationally known.  |
