The Full Curriculum
Abecedarian to Guro
The comprehensive Inosanto method — Filipino Martial Arts, Jun Fan / JKD, Maphilindo Silat, and Muay Thai — taught phase by phase with authentic rank and a pathway to instructor certification.
Traditions transmitted the right way
The Legacy track is for students who want to go deep — not a condensed version of the curriculum, but all of it. Structured around the actual phase curriculum of the Inosanto lineage, with rank acknowledged at each stage of progression. The traditions, philosophy, and culture of these arts are transmitted alongside the techniques.
Foundations
Flow
Cultivation
Kali - Eskrima
Bolos, Batons, and Suntokan
Kali is a comprehensive blade art that transfers to whatever you are holding - or your empty hand. Kali and Eskrima are known for fluid motion, rapid strikes and improvised weapons. Along with disarms, locks and throws, Filipino Martial Arts offer a practical no-nonsense approach to self-defense with or without a weapon.
Jun Fan Gung Fu
American Chinese Art of Self Defense
The style named to honor a female nun, and the lore of Ip Man, are just part of the history of this dynamic self defense method. Lee Jun Fan Gung Fu - named after it's founder Bruce Lee - combines Boxing, Kickboxing and modified Wing Chun. It is an organic mixed-martial art curriculum conceived in the mid-1960's that emphasizes efficiency, simplicity and effectiveness.
Muay Thai
Fantastic Fitness and Fight Skills
Thai Boxing, a full-contact ring sport, is a demanding physical workout for the entire body. We emphasize safety and proper technique for boxing punches, elbow strikes, knee blows, clinch work and devastating kicks. Not everyone has competition aspirations, and that is normal. We believe everyone can benefit from Muay Thai training because of the excellent fitness benefits skills for self defense.
Silat
Martial Methods of Majapahit
Maphilindo Silat is a serious close-quarter self defense system with heavy elbow and knee strikes, balance disruption, sweeps and throws. Known also as Pukulan, Kuntao, or Bersilat, Silat hails from Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia.
PANANTUKAN
- Limb-Hitting
- Hammer-Fists
- Forearms
- Holding
- Off-Balancing
- Foot-Trapping
- Elbows
- Knees
- Head-Butt
Now popularized as "Dirty Boxing" in modern MMA circles, Filipino Boxing as conveyed through the Inosanto FMA lineage is a cornerstone of NW Kali's empty-hand curriculum. Known historically as Panantukan — the term preferred by the late Ted LucayLucay Sr., a Hawaiian-Filipino boxing champion and one of Tuhon Inosanto's primary sources alongside Master John LaCosta — this art represents a sophisticated and battle-tested approach to striking. Inosanto recounts that LucayLucay Sr. favored the older term Panantukan in the 1970s to avoid confusion with the Japanese karate style Shotokan, as the contemporary Tagalog term Suntokan sounded too similar. Our striking program blends Western and Eastern styles of pugilism, drawing from Western boxing (English/Queensbury rules), Thai boxing (Muay Thai), Chinese boxing (Jun Fan Kickboxing), and Filipino-influenced boxing (Panantukan/Suntokan). This blend of orthodox and eclectic movement creates a dynamic and effective striking curriculum. Students are taught to utilize all surfaces of the hands — including hammer-fists and open-hand strikes, which are safer without gloves — along with feet, shins, forearms, knees, elbows, and even the head, creating a truly functional MMA striking game ideal for self-defense, law enforcement (Guardians/LEO), and competition.