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Kelly
Worden By John Saylor |
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This past year
I’ve been plagued by a nagging hip injury which has hampered my throwing skills
considerably. Since these throws had taken most of my life to develop I was
very depressed. But rather than do a swan dive off the top of my barn I
resolved to find some skills I could improve on until my injury healed. This
search led me to a very useful training device which I believe will help us
greatly improve our fighting skills. But first let me tell you a bit about how I
discovered this training tool and the gifted martial artist and instructor who
devised it.
Over the past
year or so I’d been studying several DVD’s by Mr. Kelly Worden who, although
I’d hate to confine to a rigid category, I would describe as a Modern Arnis, Kali, Jeet Kune Do, Combatives/Self-Defense
instructor. Whatever label you choose to put on him, he’s very good at what he
does. Anyway, while browsing across his website I came across a new solo
training tool devised by Mr. Worden which he dubbed “The Silent Fighter
Training Partner.” The “Silent Fighter” looks something like a traditional Mook Jong (wooden dummy), but is
padded, wall-mounted, and more versatile. Since I wanted to get more practice
on hand and leg trapping, joint breaks, and related striking skills, this
seemed like the answer I’d been searching for. And even better, these were
skills I could work on without aggravating my hip injury.
Shortly after
visiting Kelly Worden’s site I hobbled upstairs, got my credit card, and
ordered the “Silent Fighter.”
As soon as it
arrived I started practicing the techniques I’d seen on Kelly’s DVD’s, as well
as the Systema skills I had learned over the years.
This led to a correspondence with Kelly and he kindly invited me to his
Shortly into his
seminar it was obvious that attacking Kelly Worden would be like challenging a
cross between a world-class Sushi chef and a Vegematic.
His slice and dice skills with various bladed and impact weapons have been
honed into lightning-fast reflexive actions through unbroken decades of
continual training. He’s also a gifted teacher---animated, fun, and able to
break things down so that every student, from the most talented to the complete
novice, is able to practice and learn highly effective, real- world,
self-defense skills.
In addition to
teaching his Modern Arnis and other reality-based
skills to civilians, Kelly Worden is also contracted to teach the Army Special
Forces soldiers at
To find out more
about Kelly Worden be sure to visit his website at www.kellyworden.com.
While you’re there be sure to read about his “Travel Wrench.” This is one of
the best covert self-defense tools I’ve found. The Travel Wrench is
inexpensive, legal to carry, and a very functional impact weapon. It will amp
up your strikes by about 10! And you grapplers will love it because, unlike
most other impact weapons, you can grab an opponent without losing hold of it
since it loops around your index finger. You’ll also want to pick up Kelly Worden’s Travel Wrench instructional
DVD and booklet as well as his other excellent DVD’s.
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![]() Shingitai Director, John Saylor with DATU Kelly Worden |
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