Cruz Fighting Systems - Delmar, NY

Serving the Capital District including, Delmar, Albany, Glenmont, Latham, Loudonville, Colonie, Guilderland and the surrounding areas.

Cruz Fighting Systems is a close range self defense method, that will train you the way you will defend yourself in a real life attack or altercation.

Cruz Fighting Systems incorporates multiple styles of martial arts from both stand up and ground self defense systems, into a combat self defense oriented free flow. It utilizes simple direct attacks and counter attacks, and the most efficient methods possible to avoid, defend, confront, control and neutralize both armed and unarmed assailants.

Cruz Fighting Systems is a reality based combat self defense system where there are no rules, no uniforms, no belts and anything goes in order to survive a real life encounter or attack. The bottom line is: to protect yourself, your loved ones, those who cannot protect themselves and to get you home alive!

Cruz Fighting Systems also trains you mentally to develop the “Survival Instinct” necessary to survive a violent confrontation or attack. Without this mental component everything you “think” you know about “self defense” goes out the window in a real life situation, where seconds matter to stay alive or survive an attack or confrontation from an assailant.

Cruz Fighting Systems offers a no nonsense approach to “reality based” self defense training. Students will learn the mental and physical skills necessary to handle all forms of real life attacks. Reality is the key. A student will participate in full contact exercises against a fully padded assailant utilizing a wide variety of hand to hand, knife, stick and ground combat drills, exercises and applications. Participants will also train with a variety of equipment: Wooden Dummy, Human Body Dummy, Grappling Dummy, focus mitts, Thai pads, training knives and sticks.

Because, CFS emphasizes “reality based training”, it realizes that each and every person possesses different natural abilities; both physically and mentally, size and strength will vary from person to person. That is why this reality based self defense program is done individually or in small selective groups of only 2 or 4 participants.

About the Instructor

Sifu Vinny Cruz has been involved in the Martial Arts for over 20 years. He has trained extensively in wing chun, jeet kune do, thai boxing, filipino martial arts, ground and grappling arts. Growing up in the tough neighborhoods of Brooklyn, NY he has had the opportunity to incorporate his system of self defense into his real life experiences, and test what does and does not work in real life situations. He has trained various Military, Police, Security, and EMT personnel.

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