Everybody is welcome in our dojos. We all train together, all students get encouraged and have the opportunity to learn in their own way and speed. We not only teach all students Modern Arnis, with children we work age appropriate on fitness, motoric skills, agility, coordination and also on social skills. Respect and etiquette are our values.

Dayang Uli is an experienced instructor of Modern Arnis and self-defence and aims to create a secure and respectful atmosphere for all her students. Dayang is the title given to female black belt and Dan holders. Dayang Uli started practising Modern Arnis in 2000 and has been a personal student of Master of Tapi Tapi Gabriele Roloff who is the only appointed European successor of Professor Presas. It is a very rare honour in martial arts to train with a Master and to be taught the original art – not a modified version. Through the combination of her expertise in Modern Arnis, Kyusho and Small Circle Jiu Jitsu Dayang Uli offers a huge variety of techniques in a very profound way.

Modern Arnis is usually performed with sticks and all stick movements can be converted to empty hand techniques for defence and include the application of pressure points and their effects. The long staff, called sibat, and other weapons are also part of Modern Arnis training at more advanced levels.

The founder of Modern Arnis, was the world renowned and well respected, late Professor Remy Amador Presas. He devoted many years of his life travelling the Philippines in order to improve his skills. He revolutionised the traditional Filipino martial arts, to create safer ways to practice, which resulted in a very effective self-defence system for modern times, hence he named his style Modern Arnis. As a result, he revived the interest in the native martial arts and spread Modern Arnis throughout the Philippines and then to the rest of the world.