Welcome to Our Website!

This site is designed to give you information about Sifu Armando Sainz, his advanced Wing Chun self-defense and weapons system, his private instruction approach, martial arts programs, and provide you with information on how to contact him.

Sifu Armando Sainz has been involved in martial arts since 1979. His comprehensive self-defense system is highly recognized as being one of the most street effective and advanced forms of Wing Chun.

Armando has taken the best and made it better by designing a personalized private lesson training syllabus relevant to today’s modern self-defense demands. This Innovative training method enables students to learn quicker than ever before; much quicker than in any traditional setting with greater results. Armando has successfully produced many high level practitioners of his advanced self-defense system. His method encompasses all aspects of self-defense and is fully practical to today's society.

"I have taken Sifu Armando's system for many years and have acquired skills that take most a lifetime to attain. My self-defense skills and abilities would not be possible without the one-on-one instruction of Sifu Armando Sainz. He teaches the system as it is, in a full comprehensive way that makes it possible for each individual to learn to their greatest potential. His teaching method and fighting skill are superb." - Robert Nunes, 8th Level Practitioner and Senior Student

"I have been with Armando for 2 years now, after 3 years in the Leung Ting Wing Tsun system. I can safely say I learned more in 6 sessions (2 a month, 4 hours each) than in three years of a more "traditional" system. I was exposed to the wooden dummy my second month, whereas in the prior system, no exposure would be given until you were a higher level practitioner. In addition, I have learned basic stick techniques, defense against sticks, knives, and guns. It is all practical knowledge, with no gimmicks. This is truly the real deal." - Bob D.

Introductory Lesson

You may qualify for an introduction to what we do if:

• you understand these are exclusive private lessons
• are determined to learn and be consistent
• have the time and the means to devote to training
• are serious, sober minded and mature

STOP - If you are looking for CHEAP martial arts instruction we respectfully ask that you call someone else. This is serious martial arts training that requires time and dedication. This is not sport in any way. This is real world self-defense that can save your life!

Special Offer - Free Introductory Private Lesson

If you meet the above minimum standard, then a Free Introductory Private Lesson is the perfect way to take the next step! During this initial lesson Armando will give you a thorough presentation and show you first hand how his system will work for you. Armando will not only answer all your questions, but also interview you to make sure you are right for this training.

Armando will interview serious prospective private students from Jacksonville and surrounding areas in northwest or northeast Florida or south Georgia to train. All lessons are private and conducted in Jacksonville, Florida.

We are also interviewing students in northeast Georgia from all of northern Georgia, western North Carolina, southeastern Tennessee and northwestern South Carolina. Please click here if you are from these areas.

If you qualify don't waste time, call today! Please call Armando at (904) 463-3123. You can also contact him by clicking on Contact Sifu Armando to set up an appointment for your first lesson.

What is Innovative Wing Chun?

Innovative Wing Chun is an advanced and comprehensive form of the Wing Chun Kung Fu system. It is not traditional in that it is not limited by the unwritten laws of men who have long since lost sight of what really works on the street. It picks up seamlessly where Wing Chun lacks effectiveness without discarding any of it’s concepts and most powerful attributes.

A system for today would have to work against any attacker, no matter if the fight is standing up or goes to the ground; armed or unarmed. Armando’s innovative system does just that through the influence of scientific, bare-knuckle boxing along with tested Tai Chi influenced Wing Chun concepts, producing sensitized, yet extraordinarily powerful, accurate energy. This system has also been polished off by adapting a completely compatible anti-grappling and weapons method of which most Wing Chun practitioners possess little if any knowledge.

In general, Wing Chun Kung Fu is a very effective martial art and differs from many of today's popular systems, such as Karate, Tae Kwon Do, and Kung Fu. These systems block first and then attack. Wing Chun emphasizes self-defense, focusing on methods that allow a block and an attack in the same movement. The system is based on human biomechanics rather than animal movements, using primarily straight line, fast, direct strikes and sophisticated simultaneous blocking and striking techniques, redirecting the force of an opponent rather than attempting to meet a possibly greater force directly. The way the system produces efficient fighters in a relatively short amount of time is by sticking to several core concepts and by paying strict attention to positioning. Much training time is spent cultivating sensitivity or contact reflexes. The student practices guarding various zones about the body and deals with whatever happens to be contacted or touched in that zone. This allows for a minimum of technique with a maximum of application, and for the use of an automatic or subconscious response.

Armando has enhanced Wing Chun by updating it to answer modern, realistic scenario self-defense. Other Wing Chun people sometimes call themselves “comprehensive” but in fact many of them lack understanding of the diverse ranges within real fighting rendering them ineffective when taken to the ground for example. Innovative Wing Chun is fully developed and most of all it functions in all fighting ranges, standing or on the ground. It is a scientific method designed to work effectively for the individual practitioner without any need for preconceived maneuvers in any given self-defense scenario. This unabridged martial art is a diversified and streamlined self-defense that works in the real world.

Thank You for Visiting Us Online

Thank you for visiting our website, we hope that we have provided you with enough information to help you in your search for Martial Arts training.
For more information please click on Contact Us or call Armando at (904) 463-3123.
We hope to meet you in the near future.

Also click below and take the time to listen to a podcast interview by Charles Prosper featuring Sifu Armando Sainz on Wing Chun's street effectiveness.

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