Salutations, my name is Instructor Vincent. Benitez and I teach Jeet Kune Do in Rochelle Park, NJ at the Knights of Columbus. I have over 15 years experience, training under Sifu Richard Torres who was a student of Ted Wong (a Bruce Lee student). We train every Wednesday at 7pm. We focus on the self-defense aspect of Bruce Lee's martial art. It is simple, direct, and non-classical. I would like to invite you to join us for training and gain insight to protecting yourself.

We are a martial arts school that has been on the Upper West Side since 1963. We specialize in traditional Japanese martial arts. Judo, Japanese Jiujitsu, Aikido and Karate. Sensei Shintaro Higashi is a multiple World Cup medalist and has a Masters degree in teaching. We welcome all ages for group and private lessons.

We teach authentic Chinese Martial Arts, with a focus on Bajiquan 八極拳, the “Eight Extreme Fist”. Bajiquan is an ancient style of northern Chinese kungfu style that is known for its explosive power expression and the famous elbow strike, DingXinZou. Bajiquan is one of the few traditional CMA styles that is offensive oriented. Perfect for modern combat, self-defense and because of its Traditional CMA traits, it cultivates one’s body and mind.

What makes our service stand out is that we take the essentials of each martail art. We insure that our student gain the full experience in their training understanding both the applications of what their learning, as well the knowledge to adapt it to any scenario. We beelive martial arts is 80 mental and 20 percent phyiscal. In training with us is for our clients to be phyically fit and to be ready to take any challenge that may come your way. We enjoy our job becasue we love to grow with our students. We always beleive that a teacher can alway learn from his or her student as much as they can learn from us. We at essentail martail arts cont...

KTKD began with the vision of teaching respect, humility, perseverance, self-control, and honesty the core values of Taekwondo in the public schools of metropolitan New York. We have been giving students the opportunity to work with Taekwondo masters of great skill, who have inherited the knowledge of many generations. We are still the first and only Taekwondo education provider to service the New York City Department of Education as well as the first and only New York City Charter School Preferred Vendor of Taekwondo education.Since 2008, we have worked with over 15,000 students through physical education classes in schools, refining the met...