Adult Programs

ADULT BASIC TRAINING COURSE

The Basic Training Course is a designed to introduce the adult student to our school and our exciting and diverse program. This 6 month program is one of the most physically diverse martial art based programs in the country.
This program provides the student a first hand experience to allow us to help you reach your self-defense and fitness goals. Our service exceeds the norm in martial arts instruction.

Our Basic Training Course utilizes the ever-popular "Geyston Blend" of Premier Martial Arts, Kenpo-Jitsu, Krav Maga, Muay Thai, Boxing, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Our program focuses and teaches realistic self-defense methods proven effective by over 30 years of perfecting techniques. Our Basic Training Course is a no nonsense practical system with easy to learn and easy to recall techniques empower you with the skills of self-defense. Learning to defend yourself allows you to live in a safe positive world, to walk in peace and enjoy life.

Our program also has been voted as one of the TOP health and fitness workouts in the country. Working out with a purpose, some come for fitness and leave with skills that may save their lives, other come for self-defense and leave much more fit. These improvements are focused but not limited to improvements in the quality of life and the development of winning attitudes and the confidence to take control of your life and succeed.

The 5 Cores of JGPMA known by the world as the 'Geyston Blend"

Israeli Self Protection - Krav Maga style The Israeli Self Protection systems influenced by Krav Maga covers everything an adult needs to know to stop attackers in their tracks. It doesn't matter if they are armed, bigger than you, or more skilled. This is what the Israeli military teaches its Special Ops teams, turning ordinary civilians into devastating hand-to-hand combat fighters. It is all you need to survive just about anything the world can throw at you. Best of all, you don't need tremendous strength or ability to get capable.

JGPMA self-protection program will show you how to incapacitate an attacker in one simple move anyone can do. They will show you how to deal with attackers with guns and knives. You will learn 27 core attacks, 18 hand-to-hand and 9 defense against weapon threats. We will show you how to get to a point of reference- that is a position you feel 100% comfortable within just 2 or 3 steps, regardless of how the attack started. Once you get there, you will have common techniques that work for you every time, things you will become proficient at. Every technique will give you choices of what to do with your attacker once you have him in the point of reference - to drop him to the ground and restrain him (particularly useful to law enforcement), to incapacitate him so he can't attack anymore, or to terminate him in the most life-threatening situations.

Thai Boxing
Known as the king of the ring, Thai Boxing is the national sport of Thailand. Thai Boxing or Muay Thai includes kicking and punching as well as devastating elbow and knee strikes. For this reason, Muay Thai is sometimes called the science of the eight limbs.

Muay Thai is one of the best sports for physical conditioning. It is also known for having the strongest kick in the martial arts. Thai boxing students learn to move fluently between kicking, punching, knee, elbow and clinching ranges.

JGPMA Kickboxing provides the finest Muay Thai training in Central Illinois.
Whether your goal is to compete, to gain some practical self-defense skills, to become an instructor in the Thai Boxing Association or just to become fit, JGPMA Kickboxing can help you to reach your goals.

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Grappling and Submission Fighting The Gracie style of Jiu-Jitsu is the "hottest" item in martial arts today.
The Gracie style was created in the early 1900's by Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu pioneers Carlos and Helio Gracie, who had a standing challenge that was open to practitioners of all styles, regardless of size, weight or musculature.
This tradition of open challenge has been continued by the Gracie family and their students for over 70 years.

Submission Grappling has been popularized by events like the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and Pride, Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is taking the world by storm. The most combative of all the fighting sports, MMA is one of the fastest growing sports in the world. Submission Grappling combines striking and grappling from the standing position as well as on the ground.

JGPMA Submission Grappling program focuses on the fundamentals of grappling and submission wrestling for a mixed martial arts environment. It emphasizes clinching, pummeling and takedowns as well as submissions, positions, and escapes on the ground. It also includes striking from the clinch and on the ground.

Kali
In the Philippines, combat training methods developed to a level of efficiency unsurpassed anywhere in the world. There are over 7,000 islands in the Philippine archipelago with over 78 major languages spoken. The Filipino Martial Arts are as diverse as the islands themselves.

Kali, Escrima, Arnis and Silat are just a few of the many names used to describe the Filipino Martial Arts. These arts encompass an entire spectrum of weaponry and also feature sophisticated empty hands including boxing, trapping and grappling. Under constant siege by the Spanish, the Southern Philippines remained unconquered for nearly 400 years due to the efficiency of the deadly and combat-proven martial arts of this region.

Unlike most martial art systems, both weaponry and empty hands are taught together because the principles are common to both and are inter-changeable.
Armed or unarmed, the student learns to relate to any situation using the same concepts of body angling, positioning and flowing. Depending on speed, footwork and skill rather than brute strength, this fluid and practical method of self-defense is one of the most comprehensive martial art systems known.

Kenpo - Jitsu
Kenpo-Jitsu is based on the premises of the multiple ranges and zones of fighting. Primarily the ranges and zones of kicking, hand strikes, elbow & knees, joint locks & controls, throws & takedowns and ground submission

Kenpo Jitsu is Hanshi John's very own system that uniquely combines his experience of Shudo Kan, Goju Shorei, Kifaru Karate, Nippon Ketsugo Ryu Jiu Jitsu and Kenpo into one martial art training system. Kenpo-Jitsu was not originally designed to be a 'martial art system" but a teaching system or Hanshi John's art to share with his students that would combine the best of the system that he earned black belts in and had experience. It was a curriculum and gained international recognition in the early 90's to become one of the most sought after martial art training systems in the world due the popularity of Hanshi John, 15 nationally distributed video series and numerous magazine appearances, 6 hall of fame inductions, books and film work.

Adults if you want to have a positive experience, get a great workout and learn practical self protection then