MPMA: Self-Defense

The program was inspired by sensei’s personal experiences with bullying and assault.

MPMA Self Defense is located in Milwaukie, Oregon, with online training also available; dedicated to empowering individuals through practical martial arts training. An empowerment focused martial arts program geared towards Self Defense, Anti-Bully Techniques, Awareness, Weapons Training, and Point Sparring.

05/28/2026

I’ve restarted the grueling process of creating a video for every strike, every kick, every weapon form, every stripe and rank test.

I created a master list of videos organized by rank and sub organized by stripe.

Now it’s time to start filming!!!!

05/21/2026

One thing challenge day 1

05/19/2026

So this is very rough estimate and some videos will be 1-2 minutes while others may be 30-40 minutes. But I think I got everything from white to 1st degree black organized into a master “video” list.

So it’s 416 videos. (Give or take 3-4) of which I’ve filmed 19. lol

So if I don’t refilm my earlier material; I’m 4.6% done with the entire white to black belt program.

Level 0: white: 0 of 5*
Level 1: yellow 1: 19 of 43 *
Level 2: yellow 2: 0 of 32*
Level 3: Blue 1: 0 of 30*
Level 4: Blue 2: 0 of 41*
Level 5: Green 1: 0 of 67*
Level 6: Green 2: 0 of 60
Level 7: Green 3: 0 of 50
Level 8: Brown 1: 0 of 30
Level 9: Brown 2: 0 of 30
Level 10: Red 1: 0 of 42
Level 11: Red 2: 0 of 27
Level 12: Red 3: 0 of 23
Level 13: pre-black: 0 of 14
Level 14: 1st degree prep video: 0 of 1
Instructor certification series: 0 of 7* (* level 1-6 + little dragon series)

Little dragon: (white to yellow: 2 of 9 filmed and posted with 0 of 9 for the yellow to 2nd yellow)

05/10/2026

Correct spelling errors. Here’s the path to black belt at MPMA self defense. 7 concepts, 14 ranks; 1 journey!!!

05/03/2026

White belt

04/07/2026

It’s MPMA not KPMA, there’s also a few spelling glitches, so I’ll make a better one tomorrow.

But here’s the entire pathway from white belt to 1st degree black belt at MPMA self defense.

04/07/2026

Here’s our level 1 and 2 curriculums. This covers roughly the first 4-6 months of training!!

In future edits I will fine tune the logo, a bit of wording, etc. as for a poster to help review-this is enough to show what the curriculum is.

There will also be student evaluation forms and structured notes on teaching this material (and the rest of the curriculum)

Making the curriculum is just the first step.

04/06/2026

Mock up of our white belt curriculum. Every student comes in without rank, they are taught this material over the first 2 weeks of their time. They test for this informally as this is more about setting a good foundation. I am excited to post the rest of our curriculum as I build these posters with the help of canva and AI.