AKUMA Kaizen

06/09/2026

Coach V got caught taking photos during class. 😂🤣

06/07/2026

We walked past a dozen police officers without a problem. We go ask a question at the box office and not one but TWO security guards come to try to tell me “I’m making them nervous” over my umbrella. One stopped me even to inspect it after she was already told it was an umbrella. 😂😂🤣🤣

04/26/2026

How to Tie Your Belt

There are many ways to tie your belt, but we mainly teach only 2 versions to simplify tying it quickly.

04/07/2026

Small difference between strikes, but a slash is performed differently than a smash. Though they can enter in at the same angle as our 12 Strikes, the technique changes for different reasons. Here’s a quick comparison.

03/26/2026

Congrats .fit on your new belt! Coach V has been putting so much time into our students while pushing forward with excellence that this feels well overdue.

Not only did she earn the title of a National Stick Fighting Champion, but she’s also been recognized in the community as one of the best instructors in her group classes! She’s a power house that always takes everyone by surprise.

Congratulations!

03/15/2026

FREE Kaizen Basics now available on Skool!

AKTC (AKUMA Kaizen Training Center) is underway with video breakdowns of techniques used in our system. Sign up is free!

Find us at:
https://www.skool.com/akuma-kaizen-8866/about

03/14/2026

Skool Membership

We've been pushing to get our basics package open for you all. These are beginner-level breakdowns for singular techniques. Though they don't cover every single detail, we believe you can extrapolate a great deal of information from them. Our curriculum and drills are built off of many of these basics.

Check out the CLASSROOM for your FREE ACCESS into Kaizen Basics.

Discover the art inspired by warriors of Filipino martial arts and blended into a modern system focused on cultivating excellence within each other.

03/14/2026

Adding Stick Fighting into the mix.

After Nationals, I realized my head defaulted back to brawling while fighting off sickness to my stomach the whole day. I was only barely able to scrape by with a single 1st place victory. It’s not how I got there in the first place.

On the other side of the spectrum, .fit used what we’ve been building and won two 1st place medals using our system.

No more excuses! We’re pulling out all the stops and upping our game as National Champions with our own Stick Fighting program circling around weapon affinity and sparring drills.

03/09/2026

WEKAF National Tournament

Congrats to all the competitors yesterday on a long but great tournament!

I wasn’t the only one sick that day as we put our all into our matches. Even .fit asked why I was moving so sluggish compared to earlier that week (I was in and out of the bathroom all day). Still, we managed to push through and take home first place as National Champions!

Amazing job, .fit .dechavez and everyone at and everywhere on an amazing day!

02/16/2026

WARNING: We all know what can happen in training.

Running drills even with a padded stick, we all know students can miss their target… was not prepared for my head to take the brunt of it. Don’t let anyone tell you padded sticks can’t hurt you. We still finished our drills.