MAUA's official art
TFC JuJitsu
Total Fighting Concepts Self-Defense System. A complete system that trains every range of a fight and keeps absorbing what works.
The beginning
In the 1990s, MAUA founder AJ Weimer was training at the Progressive Martial Arts club on Yokota Air Base in Japan. Wanting more, he also trained in downtown Tokyo: Aikido at the Hombu Dojo, Judo at the Kodokan, and the Shinobu Dojo, boxing, shoot fighting, jiu-jitsu and Filipino martial arts.
At the time, cross-training was frowned upon. School loyalty was everything, summed up in the samurai idea of giri (義理): duty, honor, obligation and loyalty.
At Progressive Martial Arts, Aikido, Jiu-Jitsu Submission Fighting and combative weapons were each taught separately. Some students wanted all three at once; many others simply wanted practical self-defense. That is where the totality of fighting concepts began.
Total Fighting Concepts is born
AJ went on to found the Martial Arts Unlimited Association. To launch it with real impact, he created a system that took the best of every art he was training, and that could keep absorbing new arts, theories and concepts over time. It bridged the gap between theory and application.
In the early 2000s he wrote the first curriculum for Total Fighting Concepts, which he called TFC JuJitsu, and it quickly became one of the MAUA's most popular programs. In 2004, O-Sensei Porter, head of the United States Martial Arts Association, recognized TFC JuJitsu as a legitimate martial art and Kaicho AJ as its founder. Today it is the MAUA's official martial art.
The TFC difference
Five ranges. One complete fighter.
TFC JuJitsu groups techniques by range. If a technique works, the art absorbs it. If it doesn't, the question is whether it builds an attribute like timing, speed or coordination; if not, it is discarded. That is how the art keeps up as martial arts change.
- 1Ground rangeGround combat techniques.
- 2Clinch rangeClose-quarters combat.
- 3Punching rangeStriking techniques.
- 4Kicking rangeLong-range attacks.
- 5Weapon rangeDynamic range shifts with a wide variety of weapons.
Achieving totality
A complete bushido, the way of the warrior, means being fluent in every area of fighting. TFC JuJitsu trains each range on its own first, so students progress faster, then teaches them to blend the ranges until they reach totality: completeness in fighting and training.
TFC JuJitsu now has instructors and students around the country teaching what it means to be a complete warrior.
Start with the curriculum
Members get the TFC JuJitsu Core Curriculum, rank by rank from 9th Kyu, and a rank record with certificates.