“I have 15 years of training, Tae Kwon Do to Aikido, a jack-of-all-trades, master of none. I never stuck with one for more than 2 years like lots of folks. Each got redundant. I felt I walked out of the dojo without anything I could practically use on the street. So I hopped from one to the next until I discovered Tim Larkin, and basically found what I’d been looking for all my life. I basically came out with more practical information in two days than I did in 15 years of studying martial arts.
“…Given the underlying parameters of what TFT has to offer, it doesn’t reduce itself to a fistful of questions. Questions I used to have really answer themselves very quickly with this system. And you can absorb and learn it in 3 days here. This is my 3rd live training, and even though I got it the first time, I wanted more. Amazingly, each session, even though it’s the same introduction, is totally different. Tim never uses the same techniques workshop to workshop even though the principles are the same. That’s what really drives it home; the time they spend explaining why something is happening really drives it into your brain. Then getting on the mat and actually implementing it gives you a concrete feel for it. No esoteric concepts like I’d seen in the arts, especially in the Eastern arts I’ve studied. This is very practical. And it’s something that you can implement the moment you leave the door; it’s yours for the taking.
“…The transformation you’ll see manifests itself in terms of confidence, not only to handle yourself in situations but being able to assess a situation. You know whether something is really a threat or some guy is just drunk and fooling around. After this training, all that gets very very clear. You realize this is not about an arm-bar you learned or something your uncle taught you, this is life-and-death, and you say to yourself, ‘Hey, I’m not going to use this unless I absolutely have to.’ And that really changes your mindset a lot.
“…When I was 20 or 25 studying Tae Kwon Do, it was fun hanging out in bars sort of hoping something would happen so I could have a chance to throw my combinations. But learning TFT brings you up to a new level. You’re actually averse to that. You want to avoid it because for the first time in your life you come to terms with how violent kicks, punches and strikes in the right places, can be. And even if the other person didn’t know what they were doing, even if they accidentally hit you in one of these places, you understand the damage it could do to your central nervous system. And that’s unlike any schooling I’ve ever had before. In addition I’ve studied a couple other types of combat martial arts as well, military type, and TFT still comes out ahead in its simplicity, its ability to learn it in such a short period of time, in its ability to walk out this door right now and use it if you needed it. When you understand the lineage and the history behind TFT, where the instructors came from, where they originated from, their military background, then you understand why it was so simple. I feel very blessed and fortunate to run into this.
James Jankiewicz, Video Artist
New York, NY
