Keeping It Real
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We try to keep it real at Inner Circle Academy. There are no secret techniques, mystical powers nor unobtainable goals. We try to keep our pricing reasonable and targeted to families. We aim to give good value and a worthwhile skill set that will hopefully last a lifetime. We have some core values and principles that we use as our guide to good business including ‘transparency’, ‘consistency’ and the concept of ‘kaizen’.
It takes time, hard training and loads of self-discipline to effectively learn a martial art. Inner Circle Academy Instructors are highly qualified and accredited, with 20 years plus of teaching experience, fully insured, police checked and all have current first aid qualifications.
It’s quite easy for a big, strong martial arts instructor to make a defensive move look simple and effective on a compliant training partner in a controlled environment and with well-rehearsed techniques.
A decent instructor can almost make techniques look quite choreographed and infallible.
It’s a different thing in the real world, and while the expert martial artist may have some advantage, it’s never ever as easy as in the training hall (dojo).
Some of the things we do to make this a valuable and worthwhile activity for you are as follows.
You will learn how to fight, you will learn how ‘to not fight’, you will learn self defence and you will learn martial arts. Self defence and martial arts are two quite different things. There is a little crossover and one will help the other but we will teach both. You will also learn how to use weapons of opportunity, disarm weaponed attackers and much more. Students will also learn valuable life skills throughout their studies. There are also advanced martial arts to learn for those that wish to extend their skills.
Inner circle Academy uniforms and training regimes are simple, effective and match practical, modern day requirements. Uniforms are inexpensive and everyone wears the same. You won’t be required to buy hundreds of dollars’ worth of badges. Belts and stripes are included in your grading fees.
Instructors can perform every technique taught, there are no 1 or 2 year black belts and no child black belts because in this style, black belt means ‘instructor’
Students won’t sit for nor pay for gradings until the student is ready to pass. Grading fees are kept to a minimum. There are even discounts for the rare occasion of double gradings. There is no time based progression for grading, no mandatory seminars, no mandatory competitions and no mandatory equipment or weaponry purchases required.
Most importantly, instructors will never get angry with, berate or yell at an individual student. Instructors will never intentionally bully, humiliate, deliberately injure a student nor cause more pain that is reasonable required to complete a technique*. Neither will these activities be tolerated by anyone else in the dojo. All techniques are initially shown at a reduced speed and intensity and permission is sought from the student if a faster or full speed version is to be demonstrated. Everything eventually gets practiced at close to realistic conditions. Students need to know what works and on who.
Disrespect of any kind will be dealt with resolutely and according to the rules and values of Inner Circle Academy
*All techniques cause some pain otherwise it would not work as a self-defence. Instructors are very experienced and can judge how much pain a student can deal with. Instructors communicate with students during techniques to ensure that all care is taken. Conditioning and desensitisation is an essential part of self-defence training.