WHAT SETS US APART FROM ALL THE REST?
There are 5 major reasons why training with us is the better choice:
1. Our World Renowned Association!
MISSION STATEMENT: The Ernie Reyes' West Coast World Martial Arts Association mission is to impact and empower massive amounts of people’s lives with the positive benefits of martial arts training throughout the world. We are committed to create a better world filled with health, happiness, peace, and harmony built from a unique blend of old traditional and modern day martial arts training. Studying the best martial art skills and life skills from the East and the West is our quest.
ASSOCIATION PURPOSE: The purpose of our West Coast World Martial Arts Association of schools is to uphold the traditional values of martial arts respect, discipline, honor, loyalty, family, and bravery to the highest level of Black Belt Excellence. We must all be committed to our association’s ideals by striving for the highest standards of excellence in: teaching, developing quality instructors, students, Black Belts, competitors, demonstration teams, and promotional events. We will provide professional clean martial arts schools and facilities. We will provide outstanding customer service, and organized business administration services equal to other professional service industries in the world.
WORLD RECOGNITION: Our association and Master Reyes’ have been featured in every Martial Arts magazine in the world for developing extraordinary world class students. Master Reyes was honored as one of the greatest martial art masters of the 20th century and was inducted into the Black Belt Hall Of Fame and received the Martial Arts Industry Association's Life time achievement award in 2007.
WE KNOW that there are many martial arts schools to choose from in the Washington County area...but none like ours!
2. The Martial Arts Curriculum you will learn!
West Coast World Martial Arts style is a blending of traditional and modern day mix martial art training. It is a state of the art, martial arts system for the 21st century. Our base is Tae kwon-do, a Korean style of martial arts, but our system is now more of a mix martial arts style of Kickboxing, Filipino stick and knife defense, submission grappling, Chinese and Japanese weapon training, as well as, incorporating practical street self defense techniques.
Our goal is not only to develop Black belts in martial arts but black belts in life. Our classes are fun, exciting, educational and empowering for adults, teens, children, and the entire family.
Our system of teaching martial arts is the state of the art teaching method for modern times. Each class is build around dynamic energy and an accelerated training style that is Fun, Exciting, Empowering, and Educational from as young as 4 years old to 50+ years young. 25 Years of Martial Arts Excellence! Since 1978 Ernie Reyes' West Coast World Martial Arts Association has produced some of the finest world class Black Belts and Champions in the world and saga continues...
3. Our family environment!
We take pride in knowing that our martial arts school is a family school.
What is a family school?
It’s a facility where you can train physically, mentally, & spiritually with your whole family and know that you will be in a safe and clean environment.
It’s a martial arts school you can trust not to have egotistical negative attitudes. It’s a school that strives to help you grow as an individual in all areas of your life!
We have over 80 members that have at least 1 family member enrolled with them and 30 members who have 2 or more family members enrolled with them. This has created an exciting & caring family environment!
4. The quality!
AWARD WINNING: Our school in Hillsboro has won 8 awards in our industry for producing high quality instruction and support to our association.
QUALITY: Our facility has produced extremely versatile and high quality students, instructors, black belts, tournament teams, demonstration teams, and events in the North West for 20+ years!
BEST TESTERS: We have over 20 Black Belts who have won "Best Tester" Awards at the national black belt test IN California!
FAMOUS DEMO TEAM: Our black belt demonstration team (AKA "the Oregon Action Team") has wowed audiences from all over the Northwest including: Hillsboro & Century High schools, PGE Park for the Portland Beavers, Washington County Fair, Oregon Cup Martial Arts tournament, The Oregon Convention Center, the Advocare Success Convention in Portland, featured on News channel 8 at Sunrise with Drew Carney, and the Rose Garden for the Portland Trailblazers ½ time show! (3 times!)
5. Our team of Black Belt Instructors!
Our Instructors Purpose is to empower students in becoming well rounded, versatile, open minded and excellent martial art technicians in the most efficient and quickest way possible. NOW! Our focus is to enhance our students' choice of developing personal power, discipline, and respect through Ernie Reyes' West Coast World Martial Arts Associations' teaching process. We must master dynamic, fun, and empowering classes to keep our students progressing, motivated, educated, and inspired to train for health and happiness.
All of our Black Belt instructors have grown up with us since they were young white belts and have stayed loyal and dedicated ever since. A lot of other martial arts schools hire martial artists from the outside because they are not able to create it. This results in a high turn around of instructors which creates low quality.
We have 4 instructors who have been with us for over 10 years, the rest of our instructors have been with us for 5+ years! There’s a reason why they are so loyal... High Quality!
We ensure that our instructors teaching skills are razor sharp! Once per week our instructors are educated in topics such as: communication skills, building good habits, attitude, Mastery, goal setting, organization, & child psychology. (and more!) Every day at our school before classes our instructors plan class and their teaching philosophy of the day. It’s one way for our instructors to mentally prepare to be great role models and mentors to each and every student in our school!
All of our instructors at our school are also students here in the black belt classes. Our Black Belt instructors are first and foremost students of the arts and have a commitment to constant and never-ending improvement!
For more information on our instructors, see the "Our Staff" link on the left of your screen.
Did you know that our Master Instructor, Dan Haney...
Here are some interesting facts about our Master Instructor, Dan Haney!
Did you know that Dan Haney...
--has been teaching in Hillsboro, Oregon for over 20 years straight!
--is a 5th degree black belt in the Ernie Reyes' West Coast World Mixed Martial Arts Association (promoted to 5th degree black belt May 31st 2008)
--is also an active 4th degree black belt in the art of Eskrima (Cacoy Doce Pares Eskrima/Eskrido - Filipino stick and blade defense)
--is the founder of the famous martial arts demo team: "The Oregon Action Team" The "OAT" team is famous for dynamic martial arts demonstrations that blends the beauty of martial arts, the acrobatics of gymnastics, and the powerful sound of Taiko drums! The "OAT" team has wowed audeinces at the Rose Garden Arena for the Trailblazers, PGE Park for the Beavers, the Oregon Convention Center for the Tournament championships, The Hillsboro Stadium for the Relay for life, & more!
--has been awarded 8 times from Master Ernie Reyes Sr. for outstanding quality instruction and support!
--Participated in the filming of "Dynamic Demos" a "how to" DVD, created by Master Ernie Reyes Sr. for martial arts professionals. The video teaches martial arts masters how to create a dynamic demo team of their own.
--has trained with martial art greats: Master Ernie Reyes Sr.(Master and movie star), Ernie Reyes jr.(movie star), Grand Master Cacoy Canete (oldest living Filipino master), Roddy Piper (WWF legend), John Daniels (Jeet Kun-do)and has taken multiple seminars from great masters such as: Cung le (Strikeforce Champion), Frank Shamrock (First UFC Light Heavyweight Champion), Bob Cook (UFC), Bill "Superfoot" Wallace (Martial Arts living legend), Professor Wally Jay (founder of small circle ju-jitsu), Chuck Liddell (Former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion), and Matt Hughes (former 2 time UFC Welterweight Champion). Master Dan Haney is committed to learning from the greats of martial arts and passing the knowledge on to his students!
--is a cancer survivor! (1997) 3 major surgeries and 4 months of chemotheropy (yes, I lost all my hair...but it grew back...) Master Dan Haney considers this his greatest win in his fighting career! KO! Cancer gets Knocked out it the 4th round!!!
