Personal Protective Measures (PPM) is a modern self-defense curriculum with a foundation in traditional Japanese Martial Arts combined with lessons from modern military, security, and intelligence contexts. Students will spend a combined 12 hours proceeding from understanding the survival mindset, working out of ground fighting, grabs, and chokes, followed by defense against blunt and edged weapons, firearms, and multiple attackers, ending with a practical exam. Dates & Times :
Phillip Legare Dai-Shihan is the senior instructor and founder of the Bujinkan Taka Seigi Dojo, currently headquartered in Hawaii. Legare Dai-Shihan started his martial arts training in 1969 under SiLum Kung Fu Sifu Jerry Gibson. He started training in the Bujinkan in 1982 and has been a personal student of Soke Hatsumi since the summer of 1987. He is currently a Judan-Go (15th degree black belt) and licensed master instructor of Budo Taijutsu, in the Bujinkan Dojo, under Soke Masaaki Hatsumi. Soke Hatsumi also awarded Mr. Legare a Judan Menkyo Kaiden (master's license) in Shinken Taijutsu (modern warfare).
Arlando F. Sanders-Dai Shihan is dojo-cho (or "head of dojo") of the Bujinkan Martial Arts Tuscaloosa Dojo( a Taka-Seigi sponsored dojo). He is a warrior, combat veteran, law enforcement officer, and has studied and taught martial arts for more than 20 years. He has advanced to Dan rankings in the arts of Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu, Aikido, Hapkido, and Taekwondo. Arlando has lived and trained in Japan with 34th generation Soke (grandmaster) Dr. Masaaki Hatsumi, head of the Bujinkan Dojo, and his top Shihan both in Japan and across the United States. Arlando Sanders heads the Bujinkan Martial Arts Tuscaloosa Dojo under the sponsorship of Shihan (teacher of enlightened warrior ways) Phillip Legare, Dojocho of the Bujinkan Taka-Seigi Dojo (Guardian Hawk Justice School) and has trained in Alabama since 1999.
