Coach Rashad Brown
Owner and Head Coach
From 1994 to today Coach Rashad has trained in multiple martial arts always keeping self-defense as his main purpose for training. He lives by the principle taught to him by his college Isshinryu Karate instructor, “learn to fight first and then you can learn to play games”. Learning to fight has safely brought him through a deployment to Iraq as a team and squad infantry leader and nine years as a police officer. He always tells people that he loves the sports of Muay Thai, Judo, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, but never forgets that the foundation of his martial art is laid in self-defense.
- Kru/Muay Thai instructor under Sakasem “The Punisher” Kanthawong.
- Black Belt in Isshin-ryu Karate under Anthony Gribble, 6th degree Black Belt and head instructor of Pirate Isshin-ryu at East Carolina University
- 2nd Degree Black Belt in Judo under Kenton Givens, Lead Instructor Virginia Academy of Judo
- Black Belt in Shingitai Jujitsu under John Saylor, founder of Shingitai Jujitsu
- Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Erik Paulson’s Combat Submission Wrestling
- Coach Level 1 Erik Paulson’s Combat Submission Wrestling
- Instructor (Lakan Guro) Pekiti Tirsi Kali under Tuhan Jared Wihongi Pekiti Tirsia Tactical Association.
- Jeet Kune Do Instructor under Pat Tray, owner Trident Martial Arts
- Filipino Martial Arts Instructor under Pat Tray, owner Trident Martial Arts
- Level Three Krav Maga instructor in Fit to Fight Defensive Options
- From the Ground Up Instructor, Fit to Fight
- Sparology Instructor Fit to Fight
- Police Defensive Tactics Instructor
- Police Ground Defense Head Instructor
- Police Undercover Defensive Tactics Head Instructor
- Level Two instructor in Modern Army Combatives
- Firearms Instructor, Conflict Kenetics. Trained Naval Expeditionary Combat Command sailors in small arms marksmanship.
