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For 20 years this martial arts school has been coaching people, of all ages, in the process of learning and practicing the martial arts as a tool for learning and practicing the art of being a more complete, proactive, and empowered human being. You see, this school stands for something far beyond the kick, the punch, and the throw.

We consider ourselves an integral part of the village that help parents instill valuable character traits, beliefs, and habits in their children, such as: self-discipline, the ability to stay calm under pressure, the appreciation of teachers, parents, and other mentors, and the value of proper diet, exercise, and education in a happy and fulfilling life.

For thousands of adults and young-adults, we have been -and continue to be -a place to refuel, recharge, and remember the value of keeping one's body fit, to keep the mind focused, and the spirit strong.

We teach a brand of self-defense that transcends our physical "art", and includes the self-defense skills of kindness, empathy, community, and compassion.

You are cordially invited to visit and/or be a part of this school; that is, if you are looking for something fun and extraordinarily engaging, interesting, and life-enhancing.

We are masters of making it easy to get started. We are experts at making the learning fun and exciting. And we are committed to being role models of honesty, customer service, and good old fashioned value.

Chi's Martial Arts Training Center

Chi's Martial Arts Training Center are martial arts schools in Lindenhurst and Deer Park, NY which serves the following cities: Lindenhurst, Deer Park, Babylon, Amityville West Babylon and Copaigue.

Chí’s Martial Arts is Long Islands’ premier Martial Arts School. We currently have 2 schools in Western Suffolk County serving over 500 students with classes for every age group.

Charles Chí's Philosophy

• I am first and foremost a martial artist, striving to reach the highest level of living, through the martial arts process. The Way - The Tao!
• I am committed to learning, to free my spirit, so I can become the best I can possible be. Only then can I help stimulate, inspire, share powerful ideas and lead others to become the best they can possible be. Giving this unconditional love to my students brings me an overwhelming feeling of self-fulfillment. It taps into my - Spirituality!
• I believe martial arts is one of the greatest gifts and treasures of life to create positive change in peoples lives. I am totally certain it is my noble calling in life.

Chi's Martial Arts Training Center Mission and Values

2. We strive to help our members achieve their goals at every level of the organization.

• 1. We are one of the top Martial Arts schools in the USA and a model for studios internationaly.
• 3. We are dedicated to Constant and Never Ending Improvement (CANI).
• 4. We will provide our members with an environment that is welcoming, friendly and fun. Prioritizing safetey, courtesy, quality and capacity.
• 5. We will be an educational vehicle for our members and the community at large.
• 6. We will foster the personal growth and professional development of all our instructors.
• 7. We will provide an environment that encourages the creative input of all staff.
• 8. We will strive to be a profitable business, able to annually reinvest in improving its services, facilities and personnel.

Our mission is to help people become a better person through their study of Martial Arts. With improved health, fitness and the self-confidence that comes from having the skills of self-protection.

Chí's Martial Arts mission is to impact and empower massive amounts of peoples lives with the positive benefits of martial arts training throughout the world. We are committed to create a better world filled with health, happiness, peace, and harmony built from a unique blend of old traditional and modern day martial arts training. Studying the best martial art skills and life skills from the East and the West is our quest.

Chi's Martial Arts Training Center Instructors Purpose

Is to empower students in becoming well rounded, versatile, open minded and excellent martial art technicians in the most efficient and quickest way possible. NOW! Our focus is to enhance our students' choice of developing personal power, discipline, and respect through Chí's Martial Arts teaching process. We must master dynamic, fun, and empowering classes to keep our students earning their stripes motivated, educated, and inspired to train for health and happiness.

The Styles of Martial Arts Training

Jun Fan Gung Fu was Bruce Lee’s innovative combination of different martial ideas that occurred between 1964-1967. In 1967 Jun Fan Gung Fu became known as Jeet Kune Do; abbreviated as JKD.

Jeet Kune Do eventually became a concept known to a few top Jeet Kune Do instructors as Jeet Kune Do Concepts, a way of training, a way to adapt to any possible situation that could occur in a self defense situation and a way to evolve. Not as a set pattern in the training methods or the learning of organized techniques. Which can only be done by researching martial arts to learn more possible paths to take along with different lines of attack to defend. It was meant for his students and generations to come to understand Bruce Lee’s fighting methods with the way he would have wanted it to progress and not stay with a certain stagnant pattern that never grows.

Jeet Kune Do has now evolved very scientifically through only a few of his closest students, due to all the research in martial arts that has been done by them over the years.

It is the attribute of many different fighting systems with a basic format consisting of intercepting your opponents strikes to hand-trapping as you would see in Wing Chun, utilizing the mechanics of boxing with boxing to fencing like evasive footwork. In this day and age it is a complete self-defense method that uses kicking, boxing, finger jabs, elbows, knees, head butts, takedowns. And also now-a-days, Jeet Kune Do, as it is taught at the Practical Self Defense Training Center, has a very highly enhanced standing and ground grappling background.

• Getting yourself into fair physical condition is a good foundation to being able to start to contend with a serious self-defense situation and survive.
• Foot work for being evasive which leads to the development of skills for proper response in kicking, boxing and trapping range (Jun Fan Gung Fu or Panantukin)
• Boxing mechanics (Jun Fan Gung Fu or Panantukin)
• Kicking mechanics (Jun Fan Gung Fu, Jeet Kune Do)
• Bobbing, weaving, slipping, ducking (Jun Fan Gung Fu or Panantukin)
• Faking and feinting (Jun Fan Gung Fu or Panantukin)
• Kicking mechanics from Thai boxing or Pananjakman
• Wing Chun concepts and theories (Jeet Kune Do)
• Trapping along with entering into trapping (the use and understanding of head-butts, elbows, attacking the eyes and knees within this range also for self-defense purposes)
• Intercepting methods (Jun Fan Gung Fu, Jeet Kune Do)
• Functional use of all tools done with all the different training equipment such as striking apparatus and protective gear for a realistic feel along with timing rhythm and power (Jun Fan Gung Fu, Jeet Kune Do)
• Use of when and where to utilize the straight blast (jik chun choi) and all possible follow ups (Jun Fan Gung Fu, Jeet Kune Do)
• Nerve and joint destructions as it is done from Panantukin
• Grappling take downs to good positions, riding, submissions and escapes with skillful sensitivity (for self defense purposes, wrestling with and without a stick or a blade with an armed partner is part of this curriculum). All this is to be learned to do without the use of strength so techniques work for anyone (The grappling range of Jun Fan Gung Fu, Jeet Kune Do)
•  For Kali students, the use and defenses for weapons (stick and knife mostly) training from long range, right to grappling range (Kali, Arnis, Escrima)

Kali empty hands and weapons:

Long range, mid range, what is considered to be trapping range and not surprisingly, clench range drills along with the understanding of the interpretations of all drills for a good understanding of Filipino Martial Arts as a combat discipline. A constant progression is accomplished and that will be noticed right away if all these different ranges are practiced with the empty hands aspects of Kali and needless to say, with weapons. You learn and evolve with different types of sparring drills in all ranges, with and without weapons to help you to attain the skill that will get you to each level. Below are the weapons areas to start with in all the before mentioned ranges to understand for Kali, Arnis, Eskrima as it is taught at the PSDTC:

• Stick Vs Stick
• Double stick Vs Double stick
• Knife Vs Knife
• Double knife Vs Double knife
• Flexible weapons Vs Flexible Weapons
• Flexible Weapons Vs Knife
• Flexible Weapons Vs Empty hand
• Flexible Weapons Vs Stick
• Empty hand Vs Empty hand
• Empty hand Vs Stick
• Empty hand Vs Knife
• Stick Vs Double stick
• Stick Vs Knife
• Knife Vs Double knife
• Double knife Vs Stick

Testing in Jeet Kune Do or Kali is done while you are training in class, being observed all the time, especially when it comes around the time to achieve your next level. Sifu looks for proper form, relaxation (especially in tight situations), explosiveness, and proper response with proper form together with the proper attitude a responsible martial artist should have.

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

A note to remember for a more complete self defense skill level *Kali stick and knife fighting as well as flexible weapons, in all ranges the way it is taught at Chi's Martial Arts Training Center, is a very good additive for Jeet Kune Do student to have a good weapons base understanding to add to your empty hand skill, especially for self defense purposes. Which in turn makes the combination of the two a more complete self defense oriented martial science (please note that Kali weapons as well as the empty hand portion are separate fighting methods or "styles" taught from Jeet Kune Do and carry two separate rank certificates with separate curriculums. That is a very common misunderstanding about Jeet Kune Do now a days).

The Kali fighting system taught by Sifu Chi, although he had learned ideas from different Filipino martial arts instructors, is based mainly on the Lecosta / Inosanto and Lameco system of Kali, Arnis and Eskrima. Sifu Chi teaches it the way it was taught to him by Sifu/Guro Tatang Illistrisimo, the Sinday Brothers, the late Guru Edgar Sulite, Tuhon Leo Gaje and of coarse, Magulang Na Guru Dan Inosanto.

Ranking system for Jeet Kune Do and/or Kali goes as follows:

• 1. Beginning Level Student
• 2. Intermediate Level Student
• 3. Advance Level Student
• 4. Apprentice Instructor
• 5. Associate Instructor Level 1
• 6. Associate Instructor Level 2
• 7. Associate Instructor Level 3
• 8. Associate Instructor Level 4
• 9. Full Instructor
• 10. Senior instructor

The more you become immersed in the martial arts at Chi's Martial Arts,the more you will find that, like a fine tea, the longer you "steep" the stronger your confidence, discipline and respect will become. You will gradually feel more successful as you notice your respect for yourself and others improve and when your self-discipline becomes easier and more focused. You will find that these benefits, along with your newfound confidence, will spill over into all areas of your life.

Success has been defined as "The progressive realization of a worthy goal." We are constantly developing new updates on the curriculum making it even more effective and empowering. We are developing more a holistic approach, streamlining the learning process, as well as further integrating the physical, the mental and the philosophies necessary for success.

Finally, we are excited about "kicking" the standards up a notch; raising not only our personal standards but also those of the staff, the students and the Martial Arts industry to the next level. We hope to positively affect and empower even greater numbers of our fellow citizens through teaching highly effective martial arts and challenging all of us to live up to a higher moral code.

In some forms of the martial arts, practitioners customarily wear colored belts to denote rank. A white belt indicates a novice; a black belt signifies proficiency at various levels. The levels of black belt are designated by dan (Japanese for "degree"). For example, first dan, or first degree black belt, signifies the first level of black belt; fifth dan, or fifth degree black belt, usually signifies a master. The tactics basic to the martial arts include hand, arm, and foot blows; knee kicks; throws and trips; gripping or immobilizing; and blocks or parries using wrist, forearm, or elbow.

• Kung fu (Chinese boxing) is, with karate, the most popularly known of all the martial arts. It employs kicks, strikes, throws, body turns, dodges, holds, crouches and starts, leaps and falls, hand springs and somersaults. These movements include more techniques involving the open hand, such as claws and rips, than those used in karate.
• Jujitsu or jiujitsu (from Japanese Ju, for "gentle"), uses holds, chokes, throws, trips, joint locks, kicks, and atemi (strikes to vital body areas). The techniques are gentle only in the sense that they are directed toward deflecting or controlling an attack; however, they can maim or kill.
• Judo is a popular wrestling form developed from jujitsu in 1882 by Jigoro Kano, a Japanese educator. Like jujitsu, it attempts to turn an attacker's force to one's own advantage. Techniques include throwing and grappling. Judo was first included in the Olympic Games in 1964. Aikido was, like judo, derived from jujitsu within the last century. In aikido, an attack is avoided with flowing, circular movements. The opponent can then be brought to the ground with painful, immobilizing joint locks.
• Aikido is, with tai chi chuan, the gentlest martial art and is not practiced as a competitive sport. Tai chi chuan, more popularly referred to as tai chi, is an ancient Chinese exercise and fighting system, still practiced in China and elsewhere in the world, mainly for its health benefits. It employs slow, graceful movements that are stylized renditions of original arm and foot blows.
• Tae Kwon Do is a type of fighting system that originated in Korea and that employs kicking, punching, and various evasive techniques. Most famous for its kicks, Tae Kwon Do incorporates jumping and kicking into characteristic maneuvers called "flying kicks." Tae Kwon Do spread worldwide from Korea in the 1960s and the first World Tae Kwon Do Championship took place in Seoul, South Korea, in 1973.
• Sumo wrestling, a popular Japanese combative sport, pits huge men against one another in an attempt to force a wrestler out of the ring, or to bring his body, below the knees, to the mat. The rules of sumo wrestling prohibit kicking, gouging, hair pulling, and the like, but allow such actions as pushing, pulling, slapping, throwing, and grappling. Traditionally, sumo wrestlers are Japanese, although Americans have recently won sumo championships and proved themselves capable wrestlers.
• Kendo, or Japanese fencing, is a sport derived from ancient sword fighting, now using bamboo swords. Recent Popularity Worldwide contemporary interest in the martial arts often focuses on their spiritual aspects, as means of increasing self-confidence, assertiveness, and concentration. Personal defense is also increasingly an important issue, particularly for women and the elderly.
• Special programs in many of the martial arts have been designed to train a smaller or more fragile person to handle a larger, stronger assailant. The martial arts have also recently become popular not only as competitive sports and as ways of maintaining physical fitness but as forms of self-expression, similar to dance or gymnastics. This is, in fact, the main purpose of wu shu (martial arts) as practiced today in China.
• Karate (Japanese, "empty hand"), martial art of unarmed self-defense in which directed or focused blows of the hands and feet, accompanied by special breathing and shouts, are dealt from poised positions. More than a method of combat, karate emphasizes self-discipline, positive attitude, and high moral purpose. It is taught professionally at different levels, and under different Asian names, as a self-defense skill, a competitive sport, and a free-style exercise.

History

The art of karate is more than 1000 years old and originated in eastern Asia, first as monastic training and later as a defense method used by Chinese peasants against armed bandits. During the 17th century it became highly developed as an art on the island of Okinawa, Japan. In 1922 karate was introduced to the Japanese public by an Okinawan, Funakoshi Gichin, and the art is today chiefly associated with Japan. It was introduced into the U.S. after World War II. Many types, including Korean (tae kwon do) and Chinese styles, are taught in the U.S. Technique and Training Karate is related to judo and jujitsu, but stresses techniques for striking, with lethal kicks and punches, rather than wrestling or throwing an opponent.

The three elements of speed, strength, and technique are vital to karate expertise. Constant alertness and a keen sense of timing and surprise are also requisites. Great attention is given to knowing the most vulnerable points of the human body, which may be attacked by the hands, elbows, knees, or feet. These areas include the face, neck, solar plexus, spinal column, groin, and kidneys. In ordinary karate competitions or exhibitions, only the area of the body above the waist is allowed as a target, and all blows are to be pulled.

The most common blows used are chops or knife hands, knuckle punches, hammer blows, finger jabs, and front, side, back, round, jump, and stamping kicks. In actual fighting, any of these blows can be fatal. The ability of a karate master to break boards or bricks with a chop of the bare hand is proverbial. The karate trainee toughens hands and feet by driving them into containers of sand, rice, or gravel and by striking sandbags and special punching boards (makiwara).

Constant exercises are important for limbering up and for strengthening the muscles of the body. Deep-breathing exercises are also useful because exhalation and sudden shouts accompany the directed blows, particularly the final or so-called killing blows. Such breathing and cries help the rhythm of the karate attack, focus more force in each blow or block, and psychologically invigorate a person while disconcerting the opponent. Instruction and Achievement The language of karate is chiefly Japanese.

A karate training hall or gym is called a dojo, and the white, pajama like garment worn in all training is called the gi. More than 200 specific Japanese terms are used for the various blows and moves that are employed in movement sequences called kata. Degrees of achievement are formally recognized in karate training, each represented by a cloth belt of a particular color worn around the gi, the usual colors being, in ascending order, white, yellow, orange, blue, green, purple, brown, and black.

Qualifications for belts differ from school to school, depending upon the style and standard of karate taught. The black belt, or dan, signifies the highest proficiency in karate and, like the other belts, is itself qualified by degrees of honor or skill, the highest dan being the ninth or tenth degree. Competition The Japan Karate Association, established by Funakoshi in 1949, held the first all-Japan karate championships in 1957. Since then the association has become an international organization, with affiliated karate clubs around the world.

Karate schools have also come into being, particularly in the U.S., where it has become highly popular as a sport and a method for self-protection. Karate has also been incorporated in training programs for the police, soldiers, and college athletes. No international karate organization exists, largely because of the difficulties in standardizing the many different schools and styles of karate.

In the U.S., although no single organization conducts official national competitions, hundreds of tournaments are held each year throughout the country. Among the best known are the annual American championships of the Japan Karate Association, held usually on the West Coast or in Hawaii, and the All-American Open Karate Championships, held annually at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Why Become a Student of Chi's Martial Arts

A better working body - a sharper, more focused mind - a stronger sense of self confidence - more self discipline - the ability to physically defend yourself - who wouldn't want these things for themselves?

Practicing martial arts at Chi's Martial Arts in Lindenhurst / Deer Park, NY is about physical fitness, character development (self esteem, self confidence, focus and concentration, self discipline) and self defense - not just kicking and punching.

People often think that martial arts is about fighting but that's not what we emphasize at Chi's Martial Arts. Instead, we focus on the personal development aspects of martial arts because that's why most people participate.

Almost half of the 6 million participants in martial arts are children ages 6-17, according to statistics from the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association.* And it's not unusual for the whole family to get involved; one-third of the students are women, many of them moms.

No matter what discipline of martial arts you choose, whether it is karate, kung fu, taekwondo, jujitsu, judo, aikido tai chi, kendo or another one of the many forms of martial arts, the styles may differ but the benefits remain the same.

How Do I Choose?

If your only exposure to martial arts is from Bruce Lee or the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, it’s time to get a more accurate look at this sport – this way of life – and what it can mean to you.

There are myriad styles of martial arts, karate, kung fu, taekwondo, jujitsu, judo, aikido, tai chi chuan, and kendo, to name a few. Some have passed through the centuries, while others have been modified and are relatively new.

However, the style of martial arts should not be your primary criteria in selecting a martial arts school. Instead, you should consider what is emphasized in the martial arts program.

The Appropriate Martial Arts Emphasis for Children and Families

For children and families, martial arts instruction should primarily be focused on the personal-development aspects of martial arts – rather than the fighting aspects.

All of the martial arts develop self esteem, self confidence, focus and concentration, self discipline, physical fitness and self defense skills. An emphasis on these benefits of martial arts is what you should look for rather than seeking out a specific style of martial arts based on the techniques used for kicks, punches and/or throws.

You should also consider how the martial arts programs are taught. The practice of martial arts is largely about the development of self esteem so you want to find a martial arts program where the instructors emphasize the effort as well as the result.

Self esteem comes from having real successes in doing something you care about. For many children and adults, martial arts can be an important activity that helps build self esteem but only if the martial arts instructors acknowledge, recognize and reward the efforts of the martial arts student as well as their accomplishments and successes.

To summarize: the most important two criteria in selecting a martial arts school should the level of emphasis on personal development and an approach towards teaching that is focused on building self esteem.

To evaluate a school against these two criteria, you should discuss them with the martial arts instructor and observe a class, paying particular attention to what is emphasized and how classes are taught.

Other Criteria To Consider in Choosing a Martial Arts School

• 1. Curriculum
  • Is there a structured curriculum?
  • What are the opportunities for leadership? For competition?
• 2. Values
  • Many martial arts schools have a student creed that students must memorize. Does this creed agree with your personal values?
  • What is the school’s reputation in your community?
• 3. More Class Considerations
  • While watching a class, observe the interaction between students and instructors very carefully. The atmosphere should be formal and professional, but the students should be having fun as well. Evaluate if the students seem happy and motivated.
  • A good instructor can instruct 50 students with control and ease, but for an inexperienced instructor, 5 students might be too many.
• 4. Martial Arts Instructors
  • What kind of training do the instructors have? Just because the instructor has a black belt does not mean he or she is a good instructor.
  • The martial arts instructors at the school you select must be positive role models for the students and should be able to establish an immediate rapport with your child.
• 5. Martial Arts Facility and Safety Issues
  • The school should be welcoming and comfortable for both students and parents.
  • Is the facility clean?
  • Is there a large matted area where students can train?
  • Is there a viewing area for parents?

Selecting the right martial school will have a positive influence on your child’s development. We certainly hope you select Chi's Martial Arts Training Center.