Systema St Louis

Specialties

The Future of Self Defense!

Systema St. Louis offers a unique form of martial art training, Systema, that is highly adaptive and diverse. It recognizes that each individual possess the abilities to defend oneself and the curriculum helps to foster those abilities. Emphasis is placed on building proper ability and survival skills as compared to displaying techniques and competitive skills. A premium is placed on using creative ways of defending oneself.

It places great value in our collective differences. Each new student brings their own perspectives, forcing those that are training with them to adapt. This helps students to check their skills and understandings against the average person, not someone with the same teachings, further validating what works for them and what does not.

History

Established in 2010.

Systema St. Louis teaches the ability to survive and win, in stressful, dangerous and violent situations in as close to actual environments as possible, in addition to states of extreme duress, and exhaustion. Systema St. Louis’ training philosophy is based on the principles and philosophy of Systema — Russian Martial Art. With this combat system, special uniforms and belts are irrelevant. We don’t focus on learned stances and drills. We focus on teaching battle-​proven skills that are quick, unsportsmanlike & lethal, and focus on a body’s natural positioning and movement to be able to efficiently strike, absorb a strike, avoid and re-​direct from any position. Our training philosophy is not to be confused with any traditional fighting arts and/​or combat sports fighting systems. We are not in the business of taking years to teach a client how to incapacitate or eliminate even the most basic fighter, but rather months, comparable to the time a special ops soldier has to prepare for an ope

Meet the Business Owner

Joe M.

Business Owner

United States Marine Corps: 1987 – 1994

— Member of the Fleet Anti-​Terrorist Security Team (F.A.S.T)

— 1^st Reconnaissance Battalion — 1^st Marine Expeditionary Force

— USMC Embassy Guard Detail

United States Department of State: 1994 – 1998

— Bureau of Diplomatic Security

Provided personal protection services to American Diplomats in high threat level environment while extensively traveling throughout Russia, Europe and Middle East.

St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department: 2000-​Present

— Special Operations Unit

— Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis

— Crisis Intervention Team

— Civil Disobedience Team

— North Patrol Detective Unit

St. Louis Combat Institute: 2010-​Present

Owner and Chief Instructor of St. Louis Combat Institute.

Combat/​Martial Arts and defensive tactics:

* Certified Russian System Instructor

* Israeli Krav Maga Black Belt Instructor (

* Kenpo Karate Black Belt

* US Marine Corps Boxing Team

* Instructor Certification — Marine Corps LINE Combat System