"In 2004 I began to accompany my son to his Tae Kwon Do instruction. Master Dan Dorton was teaching a Combat Hapkido class in the same facility and I started to watch the group work out. I immediately saw the utility of a simple, relatively low impact martial art with applicability to real world situations. As I watched the students I understood that this form would give me the skills to deal with a wide range of situations without escalating the situation by using Army skills that were focused more on causing life threatening damage.

"Master Dorton kept the class interesting by adding both weapons training and defense against gun/knife along with the normal instruction. Master Dorton encouraged us to challenge ourselves as we moved through the belt progression and focused on ensuring that we understood the techniques and were able to correctly execute them on a variety of body types. He was clearly not focused on moving students to higher levels until they were ready and could demonstrate the proper mastery of the techniques."

 Mr. Kirk Burton is a technology consultant to the U.S. Special Operations Command.  He retired from the U.S. Army in 2005 as a Lieutenant Colonel serving more than 23 years in Infantry and Special Forces units.  During his last deployment prior to retiring, then LTC Burton served as the Deputy Commander of Joint Special Operations Task Force Arabian Peninsula, with responsibility for joint and coalition special operations in Iraq.

“Training at MAASPi has been an outstanding experience for my entire family. Instructor Roy Marsh has developed an extremely effective learning environment based on his unique one-on-one approach to teaching. Roy’s unwavering dedication to each of his student’s is evident in the way his students treat each other during class. Students at the academy focus on helping each other learn Jiu Jitsu and not on stroking their egos. I recommend  MAASPi to anyone, young or old, who is looking to learn Jiu Jitsu from one of the best practitioners in the area in a relaxed, professional, team oriented environment.”
Conrad Fernandez