Additional Self Defense and Martial Arts Resources
Recommended Schools in the New Orleans Area
New Orleans Eskrima - James Wilson's Crescent City Eskrima, taught at the Temple Gym on Magazine St.NOLA BJJ - Temple Gym, offering BJJ, Kickboxing, and Eskrima.
Progressive Martial Arts Training Center - Located in New Iberia and offering Wing Chun, Pekiti Tirsia, Thai Boxing, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and more.
Martial Arts Forums, Blogs, and Websites
No Nonsense Self Defense - An excellent website with TONS of information on awareness and prevention.Burton Richardon's Jeet Kune Do Unlimited - Good website and very good forum. Burton is a great guy with a great sense of humor.
Martial Arts Planet - Very large martial arts forum with discussions on a great many styles and topics.
FMA Talk - Good Filipino Martial Arts forum with discussions on everything related to FMAs.
Bullshido - A somewhat crazy forum, devoted to exposing BS in the martial arts.
Karate Forums - Although the name is Karate Forums, this forum actually has categories on a great variety of martial arts and self defense related topics.
Places to Purchase Equipment
Traditional Filipino Weapons - The best Filipino weapons I've seen anywhere.Kombat Instruments - High quality rattan sticks.
