Dynamic Edge Martial Arts is a modern and progressive martial arts school in Springfield, MO founded by Theron Sturgess in 1999. Our classes promote self-defense, physical training, and martial arts skills, in an effort to improve health and increase wellness. Our black belt curriculum is a system that incorporates training for the mind and body and is designed to teach martial arts skills and movement in a positive professional manner. Our self-defense practice is a system that utilizes what is effective for a variety of situations so that students can customize their training and create their own style of martial arts practice. You will learn defensive tactics that teach you to prevent and avoid and evade and disarm, strike and escape, control and submit. You will learn combat techniques for close quarter hand to hand, ground fighting, takedowns, control positions, submissions and weapons defenses. We teach situational awareness and how to predict, prevent and avoid a confrontation before you have to use physical defensive tactics. We study local and national trends relating to assault and violent crime and use that information to guide our self-defense. However, martial arts is more than a method of self-protection from an attacker it’s a self-protection from all those invisible enemies in life that can drag us down; sedentary or toxic lifestyle, anger, and stress, fear, worry, perfectionism, apathy, distraction and the like. Learning how to control an opponent in a self-defense situation is the context that we use to concentrate our training but the benefits extend far beyond basic self-defense. We know that the real challenges in life aren’t so easily defeated and require practice, patience, and perseverance to overcome. For us, martial arts is challenging, interesting, fun and enriching path to fitness that combines thousands of years of history, culture, and philosophy. It’s about the journey you take through life.