"Make your practice a friend in the morning, and your discipline a pillow at night."
Brandon Uttech in Seattle and Chris Leblanc in Portland, OR are both certified by Ellis Amdur as Taikyoku Araki-ryū instructors. Brandon has studied striking, grappling, and weapons-based martial arts over the last 4 decades and holds black belt ranks in Tang Soo Do and Tae Kwon Do. He trains extensively for multi-day extreme endurance challenges and tactical events. Brandon emphasizes the sword, staff, and other weapons of the classical Araki-ryū curriculum. Chris has studied various martial disciplines, holds black belts in Judo and Brazilian Jiujitsu, and has been certified as a Multi-Disciplinary Tactics instructor by Craig Douglas of Shivworks . He retired from a highly decorated law enforcement career serving more than 28 years in Patrol, SWAT, and Training assignments. Chris focusses on the torite and kogusoku mokuroku, or close combat catalogue, of classical Araki-ryū. Contat at pnw.taikyoku.arakiryu@g...