African Martial Arts Online
Change the Culture, Build Your Community, Teach African Martial Arts!
African Martial Arts Online
Change the Culture, Build Your Community, Teach African Martial Arts!
Online Learning & Certification
Learn African Martial Arts Online!
Learn African Martial Arts Online!
Learn African Martial Arts Online!
Yes, it is possible to learn martial arts online! In fact, online learning makes it easier to review material, take notes, and practice on your own! In in-person classes, it's impossible to rewind or go back and recall everything the instructor said in class. As you advance, however, you'll want to grab a friend or partner to help! If you don't have anyone, we can help with that as well!
Teach at Every Level!
Learn African Martial Arts Online!
Learn African Martial Arts Online!
We are looking for community-minded individuals who want to make a difference! Even if you're not an instructor, we still want you to teach what you do know and share the art online and in your area. It does our community no good for your to have a belt, but not share your knowledge. We need everyone on the ground building and strengthening our communities. Join us!
Become an Instructor!
Learn African Martial Arts Online!
Become an Instructor!
We're looking for individuals committed to promoting African-centered culture, values, and of course, African Martial Arts. Our mission is to spread African martial arts across the United States and globally so our people (kids & adults) have a safe haven to learn study, and grow as individuals, families, and communities. To do this, we need qualified and passionate instructors.
What You'll Have Access To
Beginner to Advanced Techniques in African Fighting Arts
The Art of War - Become a student of your History and Culture
Beginner to Advanced Techniques in African Fighting Arts
Historically, as African people, we have always been connected to the land. We build and plant from the ground. Likewise, our martial art builds you from the ground up with an insane focus on footwork & kicking before advancing you to punching and advanced striking. Each lesson is progressive and gives an extreme amount of detail, essential for online learning.
A Growing Online Network, Family, & Community
The Art of War - Become a student of your History and Culture
Beginner to Advanced Techniques in African Fighting Arts
Learning martial arts is about community and connecting with like-minded individuals on the same mission and path as you are. Ijakadi African Martial Arts has a growing online community where you can connect with others and share ideas about the martial arts, African studies, financial literacy, business development, and more!
The Art of War - Become a student of your History and Culture
The Art of War - Become a student of your History and Culture
The Art of War - Become a student of your History and Culture
Being a student of Ijakadi African Martial Arts means that you must also study our own history and culture. Our greatest battle as African people is to recover what was lost through colonialism and slavery meaning our culture and history. Today, many of us think Black history began with slavery; we don't know our original language, names, religion, genealogy, or customs.
What You'll Learn
How to Fight Standing and Grounded
How to Fight Standing and Grounded
How to Fight Standing and Grounded
While most fights start standing, they rarely end that way! Ijakadi African Martial Arts emphasizes learning how to fight standing and on the ground.
How to Read & Set Up Your Opponent
How to Fight Standing and Grounded
How to Fight Standing and Grounded
It's called the Art of Knocking & Kicking for a reason. You'll learn how to tell when your opponent will attack or move and how to set him up when he does!
Efficiency in Every Movement
How to Fight Standing and Grounded
How to Develop Devastating Power
Keep your punches and kicks tight. Avoid wild looping strikes as much as possible. Here, we'll show you how to eliminate wasted movements.
How to Develop Devastating Power
How to Develop Devastating Power
How to Develop Devastating Power
As African people, we root in the earth, the ground. Regardless of your size, you'll learn how to generate power from the ground using your body weight.
Slick Defense - Stick & Move
How to Develop Devastating Power
Slick Defense - Stick & Move
From historical martial arts such as Engolo which emphasized dodging to 52 Blocks and our modern boxers, African Martial Arts is known for defense!
The Reality of Violence
How to Develop Devastating Power
Slick Defense - Stick & Move
You'll learn our system called DDA-DDE (Deter, Detect, Avoid, Defuse, Defend, Escape). We must prepare for the unpredictability of violence.
How Does It Work?
Training Solo
All lessons are designed for you to be able to train without a partner! Solo training can be best at the beginning until you learn the basics. There is a lot that can be accomplished without a training partner! Ideally, you want to keep your training sessions to 30 minutes to 1 hour three times a week. This is a good rhythm. Between training, feel free to watch the lesson and take notes. Taking notes is highly recommended!
Partner Training
If you find a partner or friend to train with, keep in mind that you don't have to train together all the time. Training solo is best and essential to learning martial arts, do partner training as often as you like, but you should train solo at least twice as much as with a partner.
We Need More Teachers!
Students should be teaching at all levels! That's right! We want you to start teaching and sharing what you've already learned and can apply. This is much different than what you will hear in other martial arts that want to control knowledge. We want you to share your knowledge with the community. Teaching Ijakadi is more than kicking and punching, however. It also means teaching our history, culture, and values! Start there if you can. That is the foundation. There is no monthly association fee to pay like some programs. Teachers are free and independent to teach, open a school, or do nothing at all. We are not responsible for our Teachers and do not employ them. Taking on the role of teacher reflects a level of mastery in character, martial arts, and the African spirit.
More than Kicking & Punching
Charitable Giving
Beyond freely promoting the study of African Martial Arts, we have supported various charities including Hope for Haiti and Give Directly's Africa Mission which aims to help relive extreme hunger through direct cash donations to those in need.
Member of Mukhanda International
What is Mukhanda International?
Mukhanda International is an organization that researches and practices real indigenous African forms of traditional combat both weapons and empty hands. Their work of connecting with various cultures across the African continent and the diaspora is ongoing. They are laying the foundation, for the preservation/dissemination of indigenous African ancestral knowledge, an ongoing process, that will greatly be carried on by future generations.
If you're serious about learning African Martial Arts, then you'll consider supporting our collective work and investing in the Quarterly Magazine, Revealing Knowledge.
Revealing Knowledge issues are now available below to purchase. Revealing Knowledge is a series of magazines about indigenous African cultures martial arts and related disciplines. https://www.woseinternationalfilms.com/shop
To Africa
We Never Knew You
Africa, we never knew you
We never knew you in our innocence
Kind of naïve in a sense
Like a tender child torn
From his mother when born
So too, we were ripped apart
The memory of you, our lost ark
Of a covenant now broken
All because they turned
Our MOTHER into a token
Africa, we never knew you
You were sold to the highest of bidder
And yes, your beauty was to consider
Sweet to the touch, and easy on the eye
Countless the number of tears you cried
As he RAPED you in chains undignified
(till his lust was satisfied)
And sold your children around the globe
Who today wear your pain in a brown robe
Yellow, tan, brown, and all tainted skin
Lost and disconnected from their darker kin
Africa, we never knew you
The dark continent they call you
Yet what can be darker than nothing?
No language, culture, or history
In the colored only memory
Erased by the white out called slavery
Still, we see you... Africa
Beaming and shining in our sight
If you appear dark,
It's 'cus we're blinded by your light
