Hi, Welcome to the Bob Breen Academy.

We’re a Cross training Martial Arts Club specialising in stand-up fighting, street based mixed martial arts, Knife defence and stickfighting.

Bob has been teaching for over forty years and leads a team of superb  instructors who have an international reputation for their skills both teaching and fighting. He started the Academy in 1970 and it’s  been at the cutting edge of martial arts ever since. He started in Karate yet over the years has  studied many other martial systems. Bob was an active competitor and  fought internationally on numerous occasions. He’s unique in having  captained English and British teams in both Karate and Eskrima (stickfighting).

Bob has  trained many World champions in various disciplines and also have been the primary instructor for many of the UK’s leading Martial arts teachers and competitors. Over the years he’s  taught special forces, secret service and police SWAT people and groups from around the World. He has  a long time relationship with Bruce Lee’s friend and top student Dan Inosanto who remains his  principal teacher and mentor. Bob is a full instructor under Dan. Martial Arts Illustrated magazine said that Bob was regarded by many as the godfather of JKD and Filipino martial arts in Europe.

The system we teach at the Academy is a blend of Bob’s  forty plus years in Martial arts. This Breen System comprises many of the aspects of  Bruce Lee’s Jun Fan Gun Fu and Filipino Kali empty hands in a kickboxing format  blended with the best from Kali, Silat and Submission Wrestling. However, what sets it apart is the simple fighting principles and framework that it’s based upon. This conceptual approach leaves you free to improvise and to react instinctively. Our training framework means that you become a functional fighter very quickly but still have the depth of technique which comes from marrying both classical and modern approaches to combat.

The club is a fun and friendly place to train but has a hard training ethos.  Our aim is to turn out great Martial artists (whoever you are) and to empower and enable people in every way. Martial arts training isn’t only about the combative aspects but about your development as a human being.

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TIMETABLE: FROM JANUARY 2011

MONDAY:     6.30  KNIFE DEFENCE .  7.30.BREEN JKD-MMA.  8.30.  THAI BOXING

TUESDAY:     7.30   JKD KICKBOXING .  8.30.  BLEND JKD-MMA.

THURSDAY:  6.30 BREEN JKD-MMA. 7.30 KALI (dirty boxing)   8.30 STICK FIGHTING.