MANONUDA | Programs

We provide high-quality training in a variety of martial arts, combat sports, and self-defense disciplines.

Our programs are extremely well structured and organized, and they’re all based on years of hard work and dedication, with the addition of a very creative component that is specific to MANONUDA.

Each program is divided into 10 levels of progression and certification.

Here’s a list of the programs that you can train with us using one of our training formats such as private classes with a personal coach in Brussels, or as a workshop:

Reality-Based Programs:

Self-Defense
Security Services & Police

Martial Arts:

Stick Fighting
Knife Fighting
Silat
Panantukan
Jeet Kune Do

Combat Sports:

Boxing
Kickboxing
Muay Thai
Grappling
MMA (Mixed Martial Arts)

Reality-Based Programs

Self-Defense

Our Self-Defense program is extremely well developed and articulated, and it’s designed to cover all the possible aspects of real-life confrontations and aggressions.

The program is very advanced and complete, and it’s suited for men and women, with or without previous martial arts training.

After many years of experience in the field of self-defense, we analyzed and tested many approaches and ended up defining our unique system in order to provide the best possible solutions.

Specificities:

Preventive Concepts
Verbal Defense
Legal Apects
Defense Against Strikes
Escapes from Holds
Clinch Fighting
Ground Fighting for the Street
Defense ggainst diifferent Weapons
Multiple Opponents Defense
Scenario Training
Mental Development & Stress Management

Security Services

We designed and put together a specific and very well structured program for professionals working in Security-related Services, and for Law Reinforcement Authorities, such as Regular and Federal Police departments.

Our program is based on many restraining and controlling techniques, principles, and strategies, with a focus on efficiency and follow-ups to flow from one technique to another when things don’t work, to make things realistically effective.

Specificities:

Verbalization Tactics
Entries
Standing Restraining & Controlling Techniques
Escorting Techniques
Body Manipulations & Locks
Takedowns & Immobilization
Scenario Training
Handcuffing Techniques (for Police)
Weapons Deployment & Usage (for Police)

Martial Arts

Stick Fighting

This is part of our Filipino Martial Arts training (or Kali). There are different styles or systems for Stick Fighting, but we have our own customized program which includes all the combat ranges and aspects of this art.

Beside the more technical Middle and Close Ranges formats, we train and fight in the Long Range format, which is much more combative and can be considered as a “duel” format, and which can be used for competitive sport, or for full-contact sparring.

Specificities:

Double Stick Drills & Applications
Single Stick Long Range, Middle Range, Close Range
Body Manipulations & Takedowns
Ground Techniques
Enmpty Hands vs Stick

Knife Fighting

Our Knife Fighting program includes concepts and techniques from different systems, such as the Filipino Martial Arts (or Kali), but it’s a “custom-made” program that covers widely all the aspects of the art.

In it we include a reality-based Self-Defense approach (Empty Hands vs Knife), but also the usage of the blade in a “duel” format (Knife vs Knife).

Specificities:

Principles of the Blade
Fluidity of Motion
Knife Duel
Long Range, Middle Range, Close Range
Flow Drills
Self-Defense Applications & Concepts
Live Training (Sparring Drills)

Silat

There are many variations of Silat, which is originated in South East Asia (especially Indonesia), and they can be very different one from another. Our program consists of a blend of principles and concepts from the most effective ones that we deeply researched. The program is very much “custom-made” and has a very unique approach compared to others.

It is a very effective fighting style that does not require the use of muscular strength and that can be used against bigger and stronger opponents.

Specificities:

Fluidity of Motion
Fighting from the Ground
Body Manipulations & Control
Applications & Self-Defense Integration
Multiple Opponents Techniques
Karambit Techniqes
Sarong Techniques

Panantukan

Panantukan is part of our Filipino Martial Arts training (or Kali), and it’s also known as Filipino Boxing. It is based on the main concepts behind the use of edged and impact weapons.

This is a very unique form of boxing, as it includes the use of any part of your body as a weapon, against any part of the opponent’s body as a target.

Our program for this art is quite different in regard to others that exist out there. At an advanced level, we implement this art into Boxing Sparring.

Specificities:

Limbs Destructions
Fluidity of Motion
Use of Punching, Kicking, Elbows, Knees, Headbutts, Forearms, Shoulders
Body Manipulations & Control
Takedowns & Immobilization
Palm Stick Techniques
Applications & Sparring

Jeet Kune Do

Jeet Kune Do (JKD) is a martial art developed by Bruce Lee, and it’s essentially a mix of different concepts and fighting styles.

As this is a formless fighting concept, there are different interpretations of Jeet Kune Do, but our program is based on the Jun Fun Gung Fu, or Jun Fun Jeet Kune Do, which is Bruce Lee’s own version of the art itself.

Our program includes the development of what we consider to be “JKD specificities”, or more precisely, the core concepts and techniques that Bruce Lee himself put forward.

Specificities:

Wing Chun Integration (JKD way)
Boxing & Kickboxing Integration
Mobility & Footwork
Simplicity, Directness, Economy of Motion
Lead Side Striking Development
Fakes & Feints
Intercepting Principles
Applications & Sparring

Combat Sports

Boxing

Boxing can be considered the king of Combat Sports, and it’s the most essential component of other striking-based martial arts, such as Kickboxing or MMA. It is the soberest of combat sports, and when it’s taught with a real understanding of the art, it is the most subtle and fascinating one, and probably the “noblest” of all.

Because today many offer Boxing classes, you should keep in mind that “punching stuff” is not Boxing. Punching is punching, and Boxing is something else. We teach Boxing.

Specificities:

Precision & Accuracy of Body Mechanics
Footwork Mastery
Technical Development
Power Development
Focus Mitts Training (Pads)
Tactical & Strategic Development
Sparring

Kickboxing

There are different styles of Kickboxing, each with a different set of rules. Our program is based on a combination of those, including Savate (French Kickboxing) and Sanda, so the student can pick up a particular style or go for a generic type of Kickboxing training.

Kickboxing is at the same time very technical and physical, so you got an intrinsic workout from training this program.

Specificities:

Boxing Integration
Footwork Mastery
Technical Development
Power Development
Focus Mitts Training (Pads)
Tactical & Strategic Development
Sparring

Muay Thai

Muay Thai (Thai Boxing) is a striking art that originated in Thailand and is a very complete form of Kickboxing as, in addition to punching and kicking, it includes the use of elbows and knees as striking tools. It also includes standing clinching and throws.

Muay Thai is a beautiful fighting style and is very technical and accurate. Our program can be considered quite authentic, as we often train it in Thailand.

Specificities:

Punching, Kicking, Elbows & Knees Strikes
Clinch Techniques
Technical Development
Power Development
Thai Pads Training
Tactical & Strategic Development
Sparring

Grappling

Our Grappling program is based on different styles, including Luta Livre, Catch Wrestling, and BJJ (Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu). We do not teach the “Gi” version (grappling with the kimono), but we rather promote the “No-Gi” variation of this art.

This is a very challenging and fascinating discipline. Our methodology is based on the implementation of concepts and principles, rather than on the accumulation of techniques.

Specificities:

Solo Mobility Drills
Standing Up Grappling & Takedowns
Ground Grappling
Technical Development with Concepts
Applications
Free Rolling (Sparring)

MMA Mixed Martial Arts — Mixed Martial Arts

MMA

Mixed Martial Arts or MMA is the most complete of all combat sports, as it integrates Striking Arts, such as Boxing, Kickboxing, and Muay Thai, as well as standing and ground Grappling Arts.

As for all the other combat sports that we teach, this program includes both the technical and the tactical aspects.

Specificities:

Boxing & Kickboxing Integration
Clinching Techniques & Takedowns
Takedowns Defense
Cage Techniques & Counters
Ground Grappling Integration
Ground & Pound Techniques
Sparring & Strategic Approaches