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INTRODUCTION

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

Over the years, many people have tried to put a label on the exact style of martial arts that I teach. I have explored, studied, and practiced many different martial arts for over 30 years. I have always tried to look at the good and bad aspects of different martial arts systems and take the best of what each system had to offer. This is the core theme that martial artists should work for: seek to improve our martial arts skills instead of trying to label a martial arts system or criticize another style. It is the individual martial artist who makes a martial art work, not the martial art itself. Throughout my martial arts career, I have not put much emphasis on naming the system I teach, which is an eclectic blend of the many different martial arts systems.

Through my current profession as a police officer, I have adopted an informal phrase that we used in patrol to name my system. The term often used by my fellow officers when we were about to confront a dangerous situation was “Let’s rock and roll.” As the years went by, I grew to like this phrase, because just saying those words before a dangerous confrontation seemed to help us relax and perform our job more effectively.