An Almost 500 Year Old Secret That Can Dramatically Improve Your Survival Rate When Confronted By An Armed Attacker.

This system is not only reality based it is been taught to bouncers, body guards and special tactical police forces around Europe.

Escrima, is an age old weapons tradition from the Philippines dating back to 1521. It is noted for using weapons, usually sticks, as the primary tool to learn the basic concepts of the art. But far from being ‘just’ a weapons system, Escrima Concepts is also an extremely effective empty hands method that has proven to be second to none.

Training with weapons highlights and exposes the mistakes and weaknesses of unarmed applications and will enhance your reflexes, timing and coordination. Although you are not expected to roam the streets armed with sticks and knives, other people do!

Escrima Concepts has removed much of the showy techniques to develop a no-nonsense and very sought after combat system.

What is Escrima Concepts?

After thirty years each in Martial Arts, Escrima Concepts, has been progressed by Chief-Instructor Steve Tappin and Master Stephen Kinvig along with their Masters, friends and high-ranking teachers of Escrima who decided to teach it using concepts rather than just getting caught up in techniques and tradition. The word Escrima is used out of respect for the teachings and guidance of past teachers and cultures that influenced present instructors.

Western influences have enriched this system so that it has progressed with the Filipino teaching of centuries ago.

Escrima Concepts have removed much of the showy techniques to develop a no-nonsense self-defence and combat system for today’s society. From this improvement we have provided a lot of freedom and creativity for future instructors to build.

We use all the tools so we could improve on our foundations to which we first introduced. Now some of these instructors, among the first taught in Europe, have evolved the system to a new, progressive, modern and creative combat art that is: ESCRIMA CONCEPTS

How it works…

The most important factor of these concepts is, that on their own they are only parts of a puzzle. But when you put the concepts together, they become one, and the bigger picture can be seen – only then will you have a trained and adaptable person confident in the use of everyday weapons.

Our practical application is based on simple, proven, honest and direct methods for people to use in training and under stress. Our theory is designed to improve and understand the syllabus, its techniques and drills so an individual can use and adapt our concepts to analyse strategies and also progress to self-discovery when outside of the training environment.

Understanding how the body and weapon works together based on the following five concepts that hold the whole thing together:

Starting back in 2005, Sifu Talib Fehlhaber has been personally trained and mentored by Master Steve Tappin and his son Wayne to become part the next generation of Escrima Concepts instructors. As part of his training he has travelled across Europe to train intensively with fellow Escrima Concepts instructors.

Sifu Talib continues to visit Master Tappin for private training on a regular basis and now conducts regular classes in Escrima Concepts as its official representative in the East of England.