Japanese Fighting Arts Northwest is a group of friends and martial artists dedicated to improving themselves and their arts. The current curriculum consists of weapons work (sword, staff, and knife), open-hand arts (striking and grappling), and foundational body skills that support and inform the combative arts. Unlike many schools of Iaido and Aikido that downplay the combative qualities of those arts, JFANW acknowledges the historical roots of the arts as practical combative systems.
We’ve struggled at times to accurately present what it is that we actually do, and the name “Japanese Fighting Arts” is a way to simplify who we are and what we study. What appears to be several disparate classes and arts are actually different aspects of one logical martial system. Rather than create a modern ryu-ha or found a “style” of martial arts, we are choosing to preserve the individuality of the respective arts that we study, while being clearer with the fact that these arts are related by more than where they happen to be taught.
Japanese Fighting Arts Northwest
A school of martial arts and ways located in Seattle, WA.
