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Scorpio Martial Arts Center
Chief Instructor:
Jason Pierce
Instructor
Sifu Jason Pierce F.S.M.A was born
in England in 1971 in the small costal town of Hastings.
As a child he had always shown interest
in the Martial Arts and began taking Shin-obi Kai Ninjutsu at
the age of eleven. He studied this for three years and at the
age of fourteen he began studying Kyokushin-kai karate under
sensei Jim Elvery.
He was an avid clicker and knockdown
tournament competitor and won several national Kyokushin-kai
championships. However in 1988 only six months from taking his
1st Dan Black belt grading he traveled to London to enter an
Open tournament. He had previously only entered competitions
that were closed to all except Kyokushin-kai Karateka. With his
experience of winning such tournaments he felt confident that
his skills would serve him well on the open tournament circuit.
He soon learned that this was not to be the case and was soundly
beaten by a Lau Gar Kung fu practitioner who was several belts
bellow him. He watched on as the Lau Gar practitioners won event
after event and realized that he had become demoralized by the
experience.
He continued to train but after three
months finally quit and sought out the closest Lau Gar school.
This turned out to be in London and he traveled seventy miles
three times a week for classes. During this time he realized
that Lau Gar offered everything he had been looking for and he
continued to train under Trevor Gill in South London and
eventually Curtis Page (chief instructor for the London region).
He was soon training six times a week, competing in two or more
open tournaments a month, and was selected for the British
national Squad. By 1993 he had won many national and
international championships, including becoming the W.A.K.O
European heavyweight champion. In 1994 the London Predators team
(of which Pierce was a key member) won EVERY national team event
in the country, and Pierce himself had won the Martial Arts
Illustrated national league championship and the National Semi
Contact Super League grand championship as well as the British
masters Invitational.
What is
Freestyle Karate?
Freestyle Karate is a generic term used
to describe a non rigid form of Martial Arts.
The Freestyle karate concept was
originally developed by Alfie Lewis who is accredited as being
one of the greatest tournament fighter of all time, and chief
instructor of the Free Style Karate Association (F.S.K.A) of
which we are affiliated too.
Our blend of Freestyle is based on Lau
Gar Kung Fu, but is the modernization of many of its principles.
The Syllabus is designed to teach
practical techniques that can be effectively applied in the
modern world. The World Association of Kickboxing Organizations
(W.A.K.O), the International Armature Kickboxing Sport
Association (I.A.K.S.A) and the World Kickboxing and Karate
Association (W.K.A) all acknowledge this system as the TOP
tournament fighting style on the circuits today!
Unlike many smaller associations these
three encompass some 80 countries as their members including the
United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union to name but a
few.
W.A.K.O is known to have over 1,200,00
members alone.
With this accreditation it is easy to
see why so many practitioners of the Martial Arts choose to
learn or compliment their traditional Martial Arts training with
this system!
In Freestyle the individual
practitioners are encouraged to find their individuality with
techniques, and are not chained to rigid traditional concepts.
This is not to suggest that traditional Martial Arts are in any
way inferior, but rather to suggest that you should take what
you learn from them and allow yourself to think outside their
boundaries.
To quote the late Bruce Lee "favor
formlessness so that you can assume all forms and since you have
no style, you can fit in with all the styles". Hence the name
Freestyle.
TRAINING
LOCATION
Directions To This Location
Scorpio Martial Arts Center
Monroe, LA
Telephone:
Email:
Homepage:
http://www.scorpiomac.com
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