INSTRUCTORS

MICHELLE AND BEN DE LA ROSA

MICHELLE DE LA ROSA

Credentials

  • 3RD DEGREE BLACK BELT IN OKINAWAN SHOREI GOJU RYU KARATE
  • 1ST DEGREE BLACK BELT IN PANKRATION
  • CERTIFIED KRAV MAGA INSTRUCTOR - ALPHA KRAV MAGA INTERNATIONAL
  • TRAINED IN MUAY THAI, JIU JITSU, & HAGANAH 
  • CERTIFIED WOMENS SELF DEFENSE & RAPE PREVENTION INSTRUCTOR
  • CERTIFIED FIGHT LIKE A GIRL INSTRUCTOR
  • LEAD INSTRUCTOR FOR M-NASR SPECIAL NEEDS KARATE PROGRAM
  • CERTIFIED REFEREE & JUDGE FOR SHIN KAKUTOGI SPORT FIGHTING ALLIANCE
  • 1ST PLACE CHAMPION IN FIGHTING, FORMS AND WEAPONS - MIDWEST CIRCUIT

Affiliations

Founder / Creator

 

 

BEN DE LA ROSA

Credentials

  • 1ST DEGREE BLACK BELT IN OKINAWAN SHOREI GOJU RYU KARATE
  • 1ST DEGREE BLACK BELT IN PANKRATION
  • CERTIFIED KRAV MAGA INSTRUCTOR - ALPHA KRAV MAGA INTERNATIONAL
  • EXPERT MUAY THAI INSTRUCTOR
  • HIGHLY EXPERIENCED JIU JITSU AND GROUND FIGHTING INSTRUCTOR
  • MMA COACH AND CORNERMAN TO SEVERAL SUCCESSFUL CAGE FIGHTERS
  • CERTIFIED REFEREE & JUDGE FOR SHIN KAKUTOGI SPORT FIGHTING ALLIANCE
  • CERTIFIED FIGHT LIKE A GIRL INSTRUCTOR

Affiliations

 

PRIVATE & SEMI PRIVATE LESSONS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. CALL TO SCHEDULE YOUR FREE TRIAL LESSON (847) 297-2788

 

Frank Naber
is a second degree black belt in Okinawan Shorei Goju Ryu karate. He has been a martial arts instructor specializing in kickboxing, MMA and self-defense for 14 years. He has trained with national championship fighters in kickboxing and winners of local MMA fights. 
 
Frank will be teaching a Kickboxing bag workout on Wed nites at 7pm, he will also be teaching Kid's Karate on Wed nites at 6pm.
 
Kickboxing bag classes are great for a total body workout, while building kick-butt skills with maximum fitness benefits designed to increase your strength, endurance and flexibility levels.  
Maire Dempsey
is a first degree black belt in karate and third degree brown belt in modern arnis. She has been training and teaching martial arts & women's self defense for 3 years.

 

Maire is a specialist in women's self-defense and will be teaching our Fight Like A Girl  women's self defense class on Mon nites at 7:30pm.
 
Fight Like A Girl addresses how to deal with the most common sexual assault scenarios.  This program also teaches techniques that are especially effective for attacks in parking lots, parking garages and other areas where it is imperative that you not be taken to a secondary location where you can be raped and murdered. You will also learn to defend against common street scenarios such as chokes, hits, and grabs, and to escape the dreaded and deadly "blitz" attack from behind as well as how to defend their space and keep an attacker from conducting a successful "interview".
Karen Callahan
 is a fourth degree black belt in Modern Arnis. Additionally, Karen holds a second degree black belt in Kyokushin karate, a first degree black belt in Taekwondo and a first degree black belt in Isshinryu karate. and has been teaching martial arts for nearly 20 years.

 

Karen will be teaching Modern Arnis classes on Tues & Thurs nites at 7:30pm.
 
Modern Arnis is one of the most effective forms of self defense in the world. Not only are students trained to defend themselves against armed or unarmed encounters, but they are highly skilled at countering their opponents attacks at every angle.

 

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