Protection & Confidence for Life.

Training in martial arts won’t make your child invincible. But it will give your child something that most children have essentially zero of: options.

When a real threat actually arises, they at least have realistic options to protect themselves.

This truly is the mindset of many people nowadays. Hope. I hope no one beats up my child. I hope no one attacks my child. I hope no one harms me.

Hope by itself is not wrong. But action is better.

No matter what practitioners say, every single martial arts style has unrealistic nonsense included in it. We toss that in the trash and only teach what could actually be useful in real life.

The greatest fighters in the world are mixed martial artists. There’s no dispute here. MMA fighters have every reason in the world to fight in the best way possible that will allow them to win. All of them must know how to deal with punches, kicks, and grappling.

We embrace that reality at Legacy 22. All of our students learn a mixed martial arts curriculum. We fundamentally oppose, with zero apologies, any specific “style”.

That’s not a knock on schools that embrace styles. There are advantages to just training in one. But we prefer the mixed approach.

Imagine that you or your child is excellent at punching and kicking.

But they have absolutely no idea what to do if they get taken to the ground.

That’s a disaster waiting to happen. Martial artists need to know it all.

Imagine that you or your child is excellent at grappling and fighting on the ground and takedowns.

But they can’t even make a proper fist. They don’t even know how to block or evade a punch.

That will always be an incomplete package.

Learning the full package all at once has one downside: it takes longer for the training to become useful (because martial arts can be complicated).

However, the payoff comes tremendously once enough time is granted. Because then the student can function in any martial arts environment: punching, kicking, grappling, joint strikes, takedowns, etc.

Furthermore, every single martial art includes nonsensical techniques:

Karate teaches finger strikes.

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu teaches guard pulling & scooting around on your butt.

Taekwondo teaches high snap kicks.

Muay Thai teaches a stance that will have a wrestler put you on the ground in a heartbeat.

The style-free approach eliminates all of that nonsense.

Bruce Lee had it right himself: “I do not believe in styles anymore…Styles tend to not only separate men because they have their own doctrines and their doctrines became the gospel truth that you cannot change…”

He was onto something. He knew what he was talking about.

Styles create unnecessary rigidity.