Arjan Simon Burgess
Simon Burgess has trained in Southeast Asian martial arts since 1987. An expatriate Brit, he twice represented England in international competition in the Philippines. After relocating to the United States, Simon captured the World Kickboxing Association US Super lightweight Amateur belt. Since retiring from competition, he has turned to the management and promotion aspect of kick boxing, putting on highly successful competitions in New York City with participants from as far as Holland, Russia and Thailand.

He has operated his own martial arts instruction business for over ten years, and is a certified instructor under Guro Bob Breen and the British Kali Escnma Association, Tuhon Bill McGrath and Pikiti Tersia International, a Senior Instructor under former WKA World Champion Edge Brown , a Kru of the International Muay Thai Association under the world famous Grandmaster Toddy. For "demonstrated technical, tactical and instructional proficiency in the Filipino combat system of Pekiti-Tirsia Kali," Simon was promoted to the rank of Guro by Grand Tuhon Leo T. Gaje, Jr. of the Pekiti Tirsia GLobal Organization. And most impressively, Arjan Simon holds the rank of Arjan (Master) under the direction of Grandmaster Chansadeth "Cheetah" Chantanao.

Guro Barry Danielian

Barry is a life long martial artist. He began training in Karate, Kickboxing and Wrestling in the 1970’s. In 1998 he discovered  Filipino Kali and has been studying Southeast Asian martial arts since then. He began studying Pekiti-Tirsia Kali with Tuhon Bill McGrath and Guro A.K. Bouracca until 1995. Being on the road for most of the 1990’s allowed him to train with Guro Dan Inosanto, Master Toddy, Surapuk Jamjuntr “Kru Puk”. In 1997 he traveled to the Philippines to take part in the Kali mastery training camp hosted by Grand Tuhon Leo T. Gaje. This included training with the Philippine Marine Corp Force Recon Battalion and competing in no holds barred full contact stick fighting matches. He has been a student and instructor under Grand Tuhon Gaje and Maginoo Tim Waid since that time, with promotion to the rank of Guro by Grand Tuhon Gaje in October 2010.

He has also studied Sumatran Silat under Sidi Abdul Haqq and is currently a Cigku Muda in Malaysian Silat Kuntau Tekpi under Guro Omar Hakim. Barry was also fortunate to train with legendary Boxing coach Dominic Amorosso. He is currently training in Catch (Submission) Wrestling under John Potenza and is Level ! Catch Wrestling Certified by the legendary wrestling Hall of Famer Billy Robinson.He is also an HKC certified Kettlebell instructor.