Benefit for the Victims of the Typhoon

This Sunday Coach Banaag will be one of 12 guest instructors at MKG Seattle's benefit for the victims of the typhoon that hit the Philippines earlier this month.

The event will start @ 10am till 2pm, and then followed by a Luncheon. 4 teachers will be instructing per hour & each workshop is $10 minimum donation each. Afterwards there will be a silent auction for donated items and Filipino Food from Peralta's Islander Grill for $10.00 a plate. ALL proceeds will be donated to UNICEF. 

Coach Banaag will be teaching what he was taught by Sijo James DeMile adding to a great picture of different martial arts including instructors from other Bruce Lee student lineages like the Dan Inosanto & Taky Kimura lineages; as well as different interpretations of Filipino Martial Arts, Combat Submission Wrestling, Muay Thai, other South Eastern Martial arts, and an opportunity to learn from Sifu Andy Dale, a friend of Coach Banaag's who is also a skilled walking encyclopedia of Internal Martial Arts.

Don't miss out on this opportunity to help a good cause and get a great experience for yourself as well!

Movement & the Brain

Here's a link to a TED talk in which Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert discusses how movement is essential to the brain...

Starting up soon!...with a Special Offer

Our new sessions will be starting up this September on Tuesday the 17th...

Wow! What an adventure! (Long post)

June & July have been quite the months for me...
There's been a lot of learning these past few months. It's the reason why the updates don't come quite so fast as they used to. The great thing is there's a definitive direction that I want to go, and that IAM is headed.

Remembrance

Normally when I post if it's even if it's coming from a "venting" standpoint, I hope it has some benefit that others can learn from. But this time, this venting is mostly just for me....

More footage

Here's some video footage of a collection of snippets of the kids' class, as well as a little fun at a new Park in Seattle. Also, some of the older video footage can now be found on the "Media" page.

News & updates!

The past several weeks have been fantastic!

Who's it for? (Martial Arts/Self-defense)

It seems like a pretty obvious answer, but I often think that when people are looking into martial arts or self-defense training, people often forget that their initial reason for training in this area needs to be maintained as the focus of what they are striving for.

What I mean is this:

New Enrollment for Adult Programs!

With our first 10-week session coming to a close, we will soon be starting up enrollment for our next set of 10-weeks for both Adult classes: I Am Fit & I Am Protected

Melanie Bowen: How Fitness can Improve Your Cancer Recovery

Today we have a special guest write-up by our friend Melanie Bowen, a regular author for mesothelioma.com. We hope you enjoy what we feel is a very important topic especially for Cancer patients:

MovNat/Gung-Fu Connection Part 2

Here's a write-up and video for Part 2 of last week's video.

Women's Self-defense Workshop

On Saturday, March 16th from 10am to Noon, we will be offering a Women's only Self-defense workshop in the Shoreline area.

MovNat/Gung-Fu Connection Part 1

Here's our second video of the 7-week video footage.

THIS MAN IS AWESOME!

What you're about to see was not planned for the 7-week video series I wrote about yesterday. But it is TOO GOOD to not share! This man is AWESOME! Love his point of view. Love his insight. TOTALLY INSPIRING!

Hope you all enjoy!

MovNat basic combo example

This is the 1st of the next 7 weeks of video footage I will be posting.

The idea of these 7 weeks is to cover both the MovNat & Self-defense portions of Innate Adaptive Movement. Some of it instructional, some of it just demonstrating images for your enjoyment.

Contributing Writer

I will be a contributing writer on my friend, Adam Chan's new website: Warriorship for Self-Actualization.

Check out my first Write up here! Lot's of other great contributing writers are also on the site covering topics from nutrition, fitness, martial arts and personal development. 

Lot's to learn!

Use it or lose it???

The importance of Natural technique, or Natural Movements are more important for more than just being something that is Human Species specific...

2013 Plans

Happy New Year to everyone!

Today is the first day you can register for our upcoming group classes at the Shoreline Spartan Recreation Center.

As previously mentioned in an earlier post, the children's classes will now be twice a week, on a "monthly" basis. They will be held on Tues/Thursday nights from 5pm to 5:45pm

You can register your child HERE

The Adult classes for MovNat & Basic Self-defense are also available for registration!

The MovNat class is titled "IAM Fit" and is the first listed class

The Basic Self-defense (mixed w/some MovNat) is titled "IAM Protected" and is the second class listed

Please be mindful of registering for the appropriate class!

REGISTER HERE

We also have some other exciting opportunities coming down the road.

Hope 2013 is a good for you all!