The Integrated Martial Art System is a complimentary set of traditional martial arts bound together by a common set of principles and concepts.  All martial arts require you to use your limbs to attack and defend, but unlike IMAS, they do not do so in such a way that allows you to listen to, and understand your own body and regain the natural athleticism that we were all born with.

Much of this understanding was present in the ancient teaching of the martial arts, but has been diluted, lost and misunderstood over many generations.  The in-depth knowledge of biomechanics provided by the IMAS founding team, combined with their many years of traditional martial arts training, has allowed us to rediscover the true nature of training and how it applies to the human body as a whole; both mind and body.

Our syllabuses for Wing Tsun Kung Fu and  Escrima Concepts Weapons  are taught individually, allowing the student to develop competence in each of the arts before the begin to integrate them.  Wing Tsun Kung Fu teaches close-quarters combat that does not rely on strength or speed and allows a student to become competent at defending themselves in a very short amount of time.  The same is true of our Escrima Concepts Weapons curriculum that uses very similar principles and concepts to Wing Tsun, and allows a student to become equally confident with weapons in an equally fast timescale. 

As well as these training methods we teach the necessary concepts to combine the various techniques into fighting strategies for both street self defence and the competitive martial arts arena.  We firmly believe that to become a complete martial artist, one must be proficient in both disciplines, and whilst mastery of these is not essential to become an IMAS student, we encourage our members to experience as much as they are comfortable with.  IMAS students often find that once they overcome their initial reservations that they enjoy both the reality street defence and martial arts competitions. 

In short, we provide the framework for you to become the best martial artist you can be, and develop in a way that suits your fitness and self defence goals, without anybody applying their stereotypes or dogmatic approaches to your training.

With IMAS, WE supply the means for you to become an outstanding martial artist, YOU supply the ambition and the direction.