About Us

The Structural Self-defense Club was founded by Head Instructor Michael Banaag. It was created to provide a positive learning environment for its members and allow them to feel progression, a sense of community, a chance to be active, reduce their stress, and develop a long lasting skill.

In this Club learning environment is of the upmost importance. Group Classes are kept to a size of 6 maximum, and private lessons are readily offered. Our current membership consists of average, everyday people of varying sizes and ages (our current oldest in his mid-50's), who help each other grow and learn. Egos do not exist in this club, and those with big a ego are not admitted. Those who develop an ego are expelled. We look at our training as an obvious opportunity to learn practical self-defense that really works, but especially as an avenue to learn more about ourselves, and evolve in our own personal development.

Why is the Club called "STRUCTURAL" self-defense? It's not a name of our "style", it is a reference to what's important to the way we approach self-defense training. The information is taught in a step-by-step STRUCture that allows for progression towards developing a naTURAL ability to defend oneself. Our training is also about using a structure of principles and techniques that can become natural for you to do. The main information provided in this program comes from a Gung-Fu method created by Banaag's main instructor, James DeMile - an original student and training partner of Bruce Lee.