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 Michael F. Moran
Senior Training Instructor

3^rd Degree Black Belt Applied Tae Kwon Do
1^st Degree Black Belt Sil Jun Hapkido 

Michael Moran is an experienced instructor who has been training in the martial arts for well over a decade.  In addition to Applied Tae Kwon Do and Sil Jun Hapkido, Mr. Moran also has extensive experience in Muay Thai, Aikido, and mixed martial arts.  He has had the opportunity to train with some of the world’s greatest martial arts legends including Heavyweight Kickboxing Champion Joe Lewis, undefeated Middleweight Kickboxing Champion Bill “Superfoot” Wallace, three-time King of Pancrase and PRIDE Fighting Commentator Bas Rutten, and former UCC Heavyweight Champion Sean Alvarez. 

Mr. Moran is the first person ever to be promoted to Black Belt in the tactical martial art of Sil Jun Hapkido by the art’s founder Master Richard Raciti. He was personally selected to be part of the ITC team at the renowned International Training Commission Executive Protection training camp.  Mr. Moran’s vast experience was utilized to train bodyguards, security specialists, law enforcement personnel and government agents in close-quarter combat and weapons defense.  Mr. Moran continues to train in various “Real World” martial arts disciplines in order to expand his knowledge and to pass that knowledge to his dedicated students.

  Applied Tae Kwon Do

Kids and Teens 

The techniques taught in the children’s and teens’ classes have been chosen to be fun, powerful, and effective for both sport martial arts and self defense.  Martial arts training has been shown to improve mental focus, behavior, and attention span, not just in class, but in a child’s daily life as well.  Children are anxious to improve and advance in belt color with their ultimate goal being the much-coveted Black Belt.  Belts are earned by demonstrating improvement in physical skills like power, balance, coordination, speed, and control, as well as social skills such as respect, self discipline, courtesy, self confidence, and fairness. 

Elite Martial Arts Academy  requires all prospective students to take an introductory program.  The program is designed to give you an opportunity to determine first-hand if your and your child’s interest in martial arts is genuine and if there is sufficient time, desire and dedication to train.  It also gives us an opportunity to evaluate and determine if you and/or your child are ready for martial arts training in this academy.  

  APPLIED TAE KWON DO

ADULTS 

The Elite Marital Arts adult Tae Kwon Do program is a perpetual system of training that grows and changes as the students do, providing both improved physical fitness and effective self defense skills. Applied Tae Kwon Do should not be confused with sport Karate or Olympic-style Tae Kwon Do, which offer little in the way of effectiveness in real-world self defense situations. 

Students train in a practical, fun and effective environment, learning techniques that utilize their own natural body movements and abilities to help create an all around and effective marital artist. Emphasis is placed on practicality, not pageantry, in Applied Tae Kwon Do. Yes, we still teach and utilize those amazing kicks you’ve seen in the movies.  But to them we’ve added clinching techniques, takedowns, throws, ground fighting and defense against weapons to create an all around marital artist trained for virtually any situation.          

 SIL JUN HAPKIDO

 Literally translated, Sil Jun Hapkido means “The Actual Way of Coordinated Power”. It is training that goes beyond the typical kicking, punching and rigid karate type moves and enables you to defend yourself and your loved ones in virtually any hostile situation. Striking and stunning techniques are combined with joint-locks, pressure points, submission and compliance techniques, ground fighting and takedowns as defense against empty hand, knife, stick, gun, and multiple opponent attacks. 

Sil Jun Hapkido, as founded by Master Richard Raciti, is a tactical self defense system that is geared toward preventing your opponent from continuing the assault. When opponent size and strength domination is applied, “force-against-force” simply will not work. Redirecting, diverting, and suppressing the attack will diffuse the attackers energy and use it against them. Emphasis is also placed on situational awareness, early danger detection, and ways of avoiding a fight altogether. The Sil Jun Hapkido System is perfect for personal and family protection, law enforcement personnel, night club security, airline crews, travelers, virtually anyone who could benefit from the confidence of knowing how to defend themselves should the need arise.

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