Traditional martial arts and combat sports are a fantastic endeavour to pursue, and can offer a huge range of benefits. Every style and system has its own merits and applications.

That said, you won’t find any belts or a rigid focus on tradition and discipline at VALIANT. You aren’t expected to master patterns in order to be promoted, or have to wait until reaching a certain rank in order to be introduced to particular skills. There are no ‘grading days’, and no grading fees.

In fact, you don’t need to be graded or promoted at all, if that’s of no interest to you. Just come along and learn!

There’s also no sporting aspect to our training. We train for situations where points don’t matter, your opponent doesn’t care about rules or tradition, and there’s no referee to stop the fight.

Our focus is to equip students with practical and effective self-defence skills that are relevant to contemporary threats. We utilise scenario-based training to ensure students are provided with the opportunity to learn and practice skills safely, and in a relaxed, fun and engaging learning environment.