Discover the Art of Self-Defense
At Discovery Self Defense, we’re passionate about empowering our community with the skills and confidence to stay safe, with real world self-defense training in a fun, friendly and inclusive environment. Join us on a journey of self-discovery and mastery.
Our Approach to Self-Defense
We feel that everyone would benefit from martial arts training, for several reasons:
- It’s great exercise, and a wonderful stress reliever! You can burn up to 800 calories in a one-hour class, and you will have instructors and coaches to help you stay focused, keep you safe, and make sure you have a good time doing it.
- You will gain confidence. While we hope that you never have to use your self-defense skills, knowing how to defend yourself and your loved ones can increase your self-confidence tremendously.
- You will develop new friendships and contacts. And really, you can never have too many friends, right?
Our philosophy is to teach techniques you can use right away, from standing defenses to groundwork and grappling to weapons use and defenses. But while the subject of self-defense is a serious thing, we like to make sure classes are entertaining and fun.
We are so confident that you will enjoy our classes that if you decide this is just not for you and decide to drop classes in your first 30 days, we will refund 100% of your monthly tuition.
Featured Classes
All Levels Self-Defense
learn how to defend against the most common attack types, from grabs and pushes to punches and kicks and weapons attacks, and even ground techniques. Each class, you will walk out having learned a full technique to defend against an attack, as taught to you by senior instructor Maynard Breese, the only active Budo Taijutsu (ninjutsu) instructor in Arizona to have worked with both Black Belt Hall of Fame member Stephen K Hayes and founder of the Discovery Martial Arts group, Hanshi John Poliquin. All Levels classes are held Wednesday nights from 7-8:30 PM and Saturday mornings from 10-11:30 AM, at 1250 East Southern Ave, Mesa, Az 85204
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
This class is taught through our association and friendship with Micheal Evangilista of MyStyleMartial arts, the only Roy Dean Academy affiliate in the state of Arizona. This class focuses mainly on ground flow and grappling, and is held on Saturday mornings from 8:45 – 10:00 AM, at 1250 East Southern Ave, Mesa, AZ 85204