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Neil Ripski is an international workshop provider in Chinese martial arts and thought. His experience with different styles gives a unique perspective on the shared principles between the arts.  Internal martial artist of Xinyi, Bagua, and Taiji Quan as well as Zuiquan, and shaolin 18 Lohan Palm. Neil now focuses on the personal internal transformations possible through Chinese training methods.

7th Dan Black Belt, Krvav Maga Defensive Tactics, Kickboxing & Practical Karate (British Combat Association under Peter Consterdine). Senior Self Protection Instructor (B.C.A.). B.A.W.A. Freestyle Wresting Coach. Chief Instructor, Fight Fortress Complete Combatives. C.QC. Instructor. Former full contact fighter and national competitor. Award winning author, From Bullied to Black Belt and An Everyday Warrior. Public speaker.

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Master Lyte Burly has been practicing various Martial Arts styles with a heavy focus on Boxing for over 3 decades. He applies his knowledge daily by sparring with practitioners from different styles and backgrounds, one of a few Masters that are always willing to put on the gloves to spar with strangers. He has put in thousands of hours of training and continues to do so.

His students has won local competitions as well as The Golden Gloves.

Here are some of the styles he has practiced:

Tai Chi, Hsing Yi, Pa Kua Chang, Wing Chun, Kickboxing, Boxing, Wrestling.

52 blocks is an Art of Defense, a Martial Art that was developed in the streets and prisons of the USA. It is a Martial Art that places a heavy focus on defense utilizing blocks, elbow strikes, feints, sound distortion and many other tactics that play into defense.

Lyte Burly is one of the top most prominent figures of 52 Blocks and has been developing and teaching this system in NYC for well over a decade.

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GURO Billy Brown  has been involved in the Martial Arts for most of his life, starting with his father at the very young age of 3.

Having since trained in and researched many different styles and systems, he was teaching at the young age of 14 and was teaching professionally by age 16.

In 1999 he founded Progressive Martial Arts Training Systems. He is also the founder of the world renown Counter Assault Tactics Program, which is dedicated to training Civilians, Women Only, Business Professionals and Law Enforcement officers in realistic and effective personal protection skills.

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Spending 20 years of his life working club doors and private security, his real world experience is vast and this gives him a rare teaching element of reality that MOST martial arts instructors do not have.

This has led many law enforcement and military units to his door as well as presented him the opportunity to work many Private Security details for people like Brooks and Dunn and George Jones.

His Woman's Counter Assault Tactics Program is known throughout the U.S. as being the most effective, yet easy to learn course available to date. And his Stand On Violence Against Women Is Legendary.

Seeing the weaknesses of the current self defense courses and schools for both civilians and tactical professionals, he sought to form another unique organization that was highly innovative and just ahead of the curve. So, in 2009, DefendUSA/ Adaptive Combatives was born!

Dr. Dugas attended the New England School of Acupuncture, the oldest school of Chinese Medicine in the USA. He earned a Master’s degree in Acupuncture and Oriental medicine(MAOM).

Following graduation, he passed his national board exams for Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine. He was subsequently granted Diplomat of Oriental Medicine (Dipl. OM) status from The National Certification Commission of Acupuncture Medicine (NCCAOM), and recently was granted licensure in Florida as a Doctor of Oriental Medicine/Acupuncture Physician.

Dr. Dugas sees patients at Body Mechanix Acupuncture located in New Port Richey at 5623 US Hwy 19 Suite 103 34652. For Acupuncture Services call him at (727) 232-6568.

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Dr. Dugas’ interest in Asian medicinal practices arose in his early teens and throughout the late 1980s, while he was living in Northern Japan. He lived in Northern Japan through the 90s. During this time, he earned a Bachelor’s of Arts degree from Earlham College, his focus on Japanese Studies.

Dr. Dugas also is well known as a Master Dit Da Jow Brewer. Dit Da Jow are transdermal herbal liniments used for pain and recovery. Contact Dr. Dugas for more information on how you can utilize these liniments in your health care practice and/or martial arts school.

Currently he is continues his study of Master Tung Acupuncture as well as training in South Mantis Gung Fu. He looks forward to furthering research on Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine, Chinese Martial Arts(Jook Lum Gee Tong Long Pai), Indonesian Martial Arts, Tieh Sha Zhang Gong (Iron Palm) and Tieh Bu Shan Gong (Iron Vest) training, Shuai Jiao(Chinese Wrestling) and Kam Na/Chin-Na (Throwing and Grappling) and Dit Da Ke (Chinese trauma medicine).

For more information on the Old Time Kung Fu programs Dr. Dugas offers through public and private instruction, please visit http://www.oldtimekungfu.com

Dr. Dugas offers Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine services at Body Mechanix Acupuncture located at 5404 Main Street New Port Richey, FL 34652 or at your home. For more information call (727) 232-6568. You can also email [email protected]

Head Instructor at Legendary Living Arts - Qigong & Baguazhang Basics, Kettlebell Steel Mace & Clubs 35yrs Martial Arts Qigong Meditation Bagua Xinyi Taiji. A Yoga enthusiast since the age of four, Sifu Kelly Whelan-Enns has studied and trained in Qigong and Eastern physical and meditation disciplines since before 1989. Growing up with chronic asthma that landed him in the hospital on numerous occasions, his interest in the healing arts began at a very young age. 

In 1983, at the age of eight, Kelly began training in western boxing and Japanese Judo. 1989 was the year year Sifu Kelly learned his first formal set of qigong the Eight Pieces of Brocade - and never looked back. 

In 1992 Kelly began studying Kenpo Karate, and Yang Style Taijiquan. 

In 2002, he began the physical study of Baguazhang and Yiquan. In 2003 he began studying Chen style Taijiquan and Henan Xingyiquan Lui He Quan through Eric Tuttle. 

In 2004, Kelly received STOTT Pilates Instructor training. 

In 2013, after years of playing around with Escrima, Kelly trained at the famous Cacoy Doces Pares HQ in Cebu, Philippines. He now offers basics classes in this amazing traditional Philippino art. His teacher in Cebu at the Doce Pares HQ was Chuck Canete.

Sifu Kelly has trained extensively in Jiang style Baguazhang alongside Gao and Yin Fu styles. He currently trains in and teaches the rare Ma Gui style of Baguazhang and teaches Women's Self Defence classes incorporating drills from Taijiquan, Xingyi Liu He Quan and Baguazhang.

Sifu Kelly's current teacher is Andrea Falk. 

His past teachers include Eric Tuttle, Zhonghua Chen, Mike Bagwell and Phillip Chan, a student of Lee Yng Arn and Chuck Canete of Doce Pares HQ in Cebu.

Before learning Qigong, Sifu Whelan-Enns was severely hypoglycemic, had asthma, bronchitis, and many food allergies.

Training. practice and teaching time since the first Wudang Qigong workshop in Winnipeg, Manitoba exceeds 30,000+ hours. Kelly has been teaching publicly for over 15 years.

Beverly Baker began her education as a girl who was just born wild at heart. She has dodged peril and outwitted threats on the streets of many major cities across American, Europe, the former Eastern Bloc and Southern Africa.

She has developed and taught personal safety courses for LAPD's Community Police Academy, corporations, LA's Skid Row, women’s shelters, colleges/universities, public school districts and the general public for 20 years.

She holds a 2nd Dan black belt in Cha Yon Ryu martial arts, and over the past 30 years has studied various martial arts including traditional Asian arts, Krav Maga and boxing. She currently trains in judo.

Beverly is a volunteer escort at a healthcare clinic where she observes and physically manages the principles of conflict on the front lines where politics and religion collide.

She holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA with a focus in digital media management.

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She has developed and taught personal safety courses for LAPD's Community Police Academy, corporations, LA's Skid Row, women’s shelters, colleges/universities, public school districts and the general public for 20 years. 

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