The Essential Ray Floro
Floro Fighting Systems
by Ray Floro

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Video: 150 minutes (2 DVDs) | Format: DVD | System: NTSC
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$119.95

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Here is what Thomas Kurz, President of Real Self-Defense LLC, says about The Essential Ray Floro DVD set:

Ray Floro presents a few—the essential—knife fighting techniques that form an unbeatable system. The techniques are a distillation of Ray's many years of practicing (and excelling at) Filipino martial arts, Western fencing, and other systems, plus real-life fighting experience. It is due to his system's effectiveness that Ray Floro teaches Special Forces Teams (among them those of the USA and South Korea), various Special Response Units, and the Australian State Police.

His system is the most rational of all knife fighting and knife defending systems I know of. It is made simple by stripping out all actions and concepts that are not 100% proven sound “in the field” (street, etc.).

Three things impressed me most:

1. That Ray used his knowledge of psychology to select those techniques that take advantage of the flinch response—a natural defensive reflex. In Ray's system the flinch reflex helps the defender. Yes, the same flinch reflex that gets people hurt in poorly designed systems . . .

2. That practically all knife attacks, from any angle, are dealt with in very few moves. (How few? See the DVD!) So rather than losing a split second by having to decide which one, of say five moves, will fit an oncoming attack, you speed up your reaction by eliminating this decision. You know the OODA (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) loop, right? Ray has tightened this loop by getting rid of the need to Orient and to Decide, and that spells the difference between winning and dying when you have less than a blink of an eye to make the right move.

3. The system's techniques are also very effective in empty-hand fighting.

Summary:

  • System is simple and effective, easy to learn
  • Tested with elite military and police units in Australia, South Korea, and USA
  • Easy to integrate into any training program, any martial art
  • Step-by-step instruction
  • DVD set includes a great lesson on best use of improvised weapons (plastic bottle, book, umbrella, newspaper, etc.)

Ray Floro's martial arts credentials include (but are not limited to):

Okinawan karate, Italian fencing to national level, Lameco Eskrima (3rd degree), Kalis Illustrismo (master teacher)

INSTRUCTION COURSE CONTENTS

LESSON ONE

  • Explains foundation of Floro Fighting System (FFS)
  • Enables you to take one form of attack and a handful of defensive moves to create a simple and effective system
  • Shows how to maximize range without moving your feet
  • Teaches the FFS non-telegraphic strike

LESSON THREE

  • Close-quarter fighting
  • Teaches how to deal with an opponent who is aggressively charging and pressing his attack
  • How to defend yourself unarmed against an armed attack (simple moves, applicable to all situations)

LESSON TWO

  • Introduces variations to give you more options in simple attack and defense
  • Teaches longer range non-telegraphic striking methods and strategies

LESSON FOUR

  • How to set up an opponent
  • How to create openings through deception and drawing,
    so you are in control
  • How to use longer weapons of opportunity, such as rolled-up magazines, walking sticks, umbrellas, etc

LESSON FIVE

  • Teaches specialized moves to be used against a more skilled opponent

  • How to bridge an extreme long range distance

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Testimonials

“Ray Floro has developed the best system of knife fighting and defending against a skilled knife fighter that I have ever seen. I consider it the model of efficiency—from its techniques to the teaching method. This is the knife fighting system anybody serious about self-defense has to learn.”—Thomas Kurz
President of Stadion Publishing Company and of Real Self-Defense LLC, co-author of
Basic Instincts of Self-Defense,
Island Pond, VT

“Ray reminds me of a physics professor who once told me that progress comes from reducing the principles needed to explain how the world works.
Ray is like that-- he is not just non-telegraphic and really quick, he is a thoughtful man who seeks the essence.”
—Crafty Dog (Marc Denny)
Dog Brothers Martial Arts
www.dogbrothers.com

“Ray Floro doesn't conform for the sake of conforming. He won't teach anything that he hasn't personally pulled off not once but thousands of times. I'd highly recommend anyone seeking skills sets that are applicable as soon as you finish viewing them to order The Essential Ray Floro DVD. Ray's a refreshingly true FMA maverick. Remember them?”—Tuhon Rafael Kayanan,
Sayoc International Group

“Simple, Direct and Effective. I am a policeman of 13 years and a full time SWAT operator in one of the largest police forces in the southern hemisphere. I am a Weapons and Defensive Tactics Trainer and a full time SWAT operator. [I] have instructed many police in Ray's system.

“Ray's methods are brutally effective and extremely efficient to learn, which makes them easy to retain under real world pressures. The techniques are versatile and can be adapted easily to fit any training program. I have no hesitation in recommending Ray's training methods and I consider him to be an extremely competent instructor in an area which allows little margin for error.”—Matt Hamilton
Senior “Less Lethal” Instructor