While Sifu Anderson and the staff host a variety of fundraising events, including our annual 2010 Kicka-thon for St. Judes Children’s Hospital and our tuition donation to the Susan G. Komen breast cancer fundraiser and the Y-Society of New York City. Our most committed and frequent charity is Women’s Self Defense.

Anderson’s Martial Arts Academy is proud to be the long time host for a bi-monthly FREE Self Defense class, whose charity donations go directly to benefit BABAE (a not-for-profit organization created in 2002 to help Filipina victims and survivors of violence in the New York / New Jersey metropolitan area).

The idea of our AMAA FREE Self Defense Program is to create a pay it forward concept:

Sifu Anderson, Dasha Libin and the AMAA staff and senior students dedicate two hours of their teaching to host a two hour seminar, educating women on street awarness and self defense. All women attending the class can then go ahead and give a donation (suggested donations are 5-15 dollars), of which all proceeds will go to BABAE.

Our Self-defense class covers:
Women of all ages will learn how to react and defend themselves through a variety of methods including: verbal, hand to hand, ground and weapons self defense and education and street awareness. All women are welcome!!! Bring friends, family members and coworkers!!! No training or fitness experience needed.

* Combat & self defense application skills in all ranges of attack
* Basic weapons training with a long / short range weapon
* Ground fighting skills; escapes, holds, submissions, transitions, takedowns
* Empty hand combat in close and long range
* Scenario assessment, adaptation and transition
* Multiple attacker defense and offense tactic.

Our next FREE WOMEN’S SELF DEFENSE class:
Friday, October 29th, 2010 7:00 – 9:00pm

To sign up for any of AMAA’s FREE SELF DEFENSE class,
RSVP via email (contact page on our site)

Additionally if you are under 18 years of age, please bring a guardian for consent.

To donate directly to BABAE, please go to;

http://babaehelp.org/