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Mission Statement

IT IS the mission and purpose of this Site to pursue and to disseminate the very best information and guidance for those who are interested in practical self-defense and close combat. We include ancillary and cognate disciplines, such as physical training, the use of hypnosis and other means of effecting proper levels of mental conditioning and all round total readiness. We also include review and discussion of published materials on all aspects of our subjects, and of related subjects — from all sources, worldwide: current and out of print.

It is also the purpose of this Site to provide authentic and reliable information about the System of close combat and martial art that we founded in 1975: American Combato (Jen•Do•Tao)™, and to inform visitors to this Site how to obtain bona fide, legitimate training in this Art. Additionally, we offer unique instructional materials and papers relevant to all general researches into and studies of self-defense and close combat.

While we certainly do have a serious commercial objective in presenting this Site, we are no less motivated by our lifetime love of and devotion to the subjects about which it deals. We therefore cordially welcome visitors who train in other schools and systems of martial art. So long as the individual has a deep interest in real world self-defense and in authentic methods of close combat, we are confident that he will enjoy and greatly benefit by visiting this Site regularly.

We respect all sincere, decent practitioners of all responsibly taught, legitimate martial arts. We do have our own ideas and convictions which we have arrived at over the last 50-plus years of dedication to what we do.   We have no interest in converting antagonists; but we have found over the preceding decades that we have invariably gotten along extremely well with anyone who is seriously devoted to the combat arts for the same reasons that we are.

We have been a student of the martial arts (including weaponry) since the 1950’s. Among our personal teachers and close associates have been Col. Rex Applegate and Sgt. Charles (“Charlie”) Nelson. We have been a devotee of sensible weight training since the early 1960’s. We have been a student of hypnosis for more than 40 years, and have been a state licensed hypnotherapist for 22 years — with our specialty being the mental conditioning of combat students and physical trainees (for which we have been recognized as a “Fellow in Clinical Hypnotherapy”). In 1975 we founded the American Combato (Jen•Do•Tao) System of self-defense and close combat, which is today recognized internationally.  We have a background in intelligence and in protective services (“bodyguarding”). We have written more than two dozen books and 1,000 magazine articles during the last 40 years on our various subjects. We have been writing and publishing a limited-circulation monthly Journal (Close Quarters: The Professional Journal of Ungentlemanly Warfare) for nearly nine years. We have trained SWAT officers, patrol officers, military elites (U.S. Marines, SEALs,  and Army Special Forces), bodyguards, investigators, spies, and security personnel of all types. We have also trained the elderly, the very young, and the handicapped. We are Founder, President, and CEO of the International Combat Martial Arts Federation. We are former Washington State Director of the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers, and we are President of the International Stick and Knife Fighting Association, in Berlin, Germany. We have been personally certified by the late Col. Rex Applegate to teach his and W.E. Fairbairn’s methods.

We feel that after more than half a century of all this we have something worthwhile to offer.

Welcome to our Site! Please tell others about it, and visit here often!

Prof. Bradley J. Steiner
Seattle, Washington