The ideas expressed below are meant to help foster an atmosphere of creativity that allows you to constantly change, evolve and upgrade your methods of fighting. C.F.S. considers you to be in a constant stage of evolution as an individual and as a fighter.

• Reality based training produces faster results than classical martial arts because time and energy are not spent kicking the air or memorizing postures and tactics that have nothing to do with real fighting.

• Fighting tournaments are generally confined to one-on-one matches with rules and restrictions that do not apply in the streets. They do not address common street factors such as multiple opponents or armed assailants. In addition, some events could prove counter productive by building and reinforcing fighting habits that could prove fatal if executed on the street.

• "Real fighting is not static but continuous and ongoing, usually lasting only a very short time..."1

• A vast majority of  “super effective” martial arts moves that are based on theory and opinion and can be proven worthless.

• If a student understands certain natural principles, the techniques applied with those principals in mind can be limitless, (i.e. 5 moves become 25 moves and so on…)2.

• A much weaker, minimally-trained individual with a weapon and simple, committed techniques could beat an experienced fighter.

• If you know how to use a weapon, you possess an equalizer.

• Nothing can put a stop to a ground fight faster than a good weapon submission hold.

• An assailant armed only with a tenacious nature can destroy a trained martial artist.

• Surviving is not necessarily winning, but outlasting a situation.

• Everyone is mortal and therefore beatable

1, 2 Robert Bussey