Welcome
Welcome to Northwest Martial Arts.
We teach a variety of different Martial Art styles at Northwest Martial Arts. We focus on the use of techniques that best reflect and demonstrate principles such as ranging, timing, targeting, focusing, and cause/effect; uniting them in an effective Martial Arts system. These principles can then be used with whatever style the student wishes, whether "hard" or "soft." The resulting application combines mastery of any given form, with superior understanding of underlying principles. Thus, the traditional limitations and incompatibilities of "hard" vs. "soft" styles no longer apply. Since each person has different needs and goals that they wish to achieve, the main goal of our system is to take "hard" & "soft" styles and adapt them to each individual. Our system combines the use of these concepts with techniques from the systems of Jeet Kune Do, Tae Kwon Do, Karate, Wing Chun, Kenpo, Boxing, Muay Thai Kick Boxing, and Judo. These concepts, with techniques, can then be used in conjunction with 4 different ranges, 4 different levels, and the use of distance and direction of force. The understanding of these general concepts will give students at any skill level an advantage over many "form" based systems.