New Zealand Freestyle Martial Arts

Our style, New Zealand Freestyle Martial Arts (NZFMA) is an eclectic or freestyle, exactly as the name suggests. What this means is that the student is not fixed to a certain fighting form, style or stance. There are a number of eclectic styles in the USA; two of the better known are Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do and Ashihara karate. The influences on NZFMA are most strongly from Zen Do Kai, a freestyle karate and Goju-Ryu, an Okinawan Karate style. Zen Do Kai was developed by Kyoshi-sama Bob Jones from traditional karate as he felt that the traditional style was insufficiently practical in the street. Goju-Ryu is a combination style – a hard-soft, Japanese-Chinese style as befitting its place of origin. Although these are the main influences, we believe in learning from all styles and taking what we see to be useful and practical.

Clubs and training times:

Rongotea Dojo:
Mon and Thurs 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Instructor: Shihan Brenden Print
Contact: 06 3290902

Feilding Dojo:
Every second Mon and every Thurs 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Instructor: Renshi Adrian Sears
Contact: 0274493321

Wellington Dojo:
Mon 7:00pm - 9:00pm, Thurs 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Instructor: Clive Trott
Contact:clive.trott@xtra.co.nz

Rotorua Dojo:
Times coming soon!
Instructor: Nigel Burling
Contact:021404566