Our regular Monday night class is cancelled tonight in honor of Memorial Day. Hope you all are having a safe weekend, and take a moment to remember the fallen. For the sake of others, so many have laid down their lives on the battlefield. May they all find peace.

Best Martial Arts Institute is closed on Monday for Presidents Day, so regular Monday night class will not be meeting. We will resume our regular class schedule next week. Hope to see you there. In the meantime, you can take this opportunity to develop your personal training at home. Hope you have a great week!

Join us Sunday, January 31st for 3 hours of Systema training. Whether you are just curious about Systema, or have been training regularly, this workshop will be a great opportunity to experience some concentrated instruction and training in this unique Russian martial art. There will be no prescribed techniques or moves to memorize. All training will be principal based, with skills easily transferable to other martial arts, or indeed any endeavor.

Training will run from 1-4pm at Best Martial Arts Institute, 795 Almaden St, Eugene, OR. The cost is $20 paid at the door.

You can download the flier here and help spread the word.

In honor of Labor Day BMAI will be closed on Monday, September 7th, and there will be no 6:45 Systema class. Hope everyone has a great weekend and a great week. Regular class will resume the following Monday. Until then, there’s plenty of training you can do on your own to improve breathing, relaxation, mobility, and alignment.

There will no Systema class on Monday, May 25th, in observance of Memorial Day. Best Martial Arts Institute will be closed all day. Regular class will resume on June 1st. Hope to see you there.

Every Saturday in June, Eugene Systema will be holding a series of seminars covering fundamental aspects of Systema training. Each three hour seminar will cover materials accessible and applicable to martial artists of all experience levels and backgrounds (ages 16 and up). Each session will build on the previous ones, although previous attendance is not required. Develop confidence and spontaneous survival instincts. Improve health and mobility. Learn tools to augment your training, no matter what style you train in.

Read more below and download the flier here to help spread the word.

Matt Lowes is a Systema instructor with over 25 years of experience in martial arts. In addition to regular classes and workshops he has taught classes for law enforcement and a school for the blind. The past two years he has been a guest instructor for the Pacific Martial Art Conference.

June 6th – Principles for Moving and Fighting
June 13th – The Weapons of Survival
June 20th – Building Dynamic Applications
June 27th – Freedom and Spontaneity in Action

All sessions will run from 1pm to 4pm at Best Martial Arts Institute

Best Martial Arts Institute
795 Almaden St
Eugene, OR

$20 / Session

Please submit all questions through the contact page.

Summer is just around the corner, and there are some incredible training opportunities to be aware of.

Vladimir Vasiliev and Konstantin Komarov will be in Seattle June 26-28 for the 2015 Systema Masters seminar “Street Tough.” This will, no doubt, be an amazing event. Vladimir and Konstantin are top systema masters, outstanding instructors, and incredibly skilled and knowledgeable. If you have an interest in Systema, and you can make this event, you will not be disappointing.

Emmanuel Manolokakis will be at the Roots Dojo on Denman as part of their notorious Systema Summer Instensive with Vali Majd. This is an incredible opportunity to push yourself and go deeper in the art with two senior instructors. These guys were doing Systema long before most people had even heard of it. They are great people and amazing instructors. This will be an experience you will not forget.

If you’re in the Eugene area and can’t get away, Systema Eugene will be holding some summer workshops in June called “Discover Systema.” Stay tuned for more information on location and times for these weekend seminars.

This Monday is presidents day, and as Best Martial will be closed, our regular Monday night class is cancelled. Hope to see you all next week for more training. In the mean time, there’s plenty of training you can be doing on your own … so why wait?

It’s time for the first day of this year’s Pacific Martial Arts Conference. The event will be on Saturday, January 24th from 10am to 4pm at Best Martial Arts. Many excellent instructors will be teaching mini classes on a wide range of martial arts all day. I will be teaching a segment on Systema at 11:30.

This is one of my favorite events of the year, an excellent opportunity to train with a lot of people you might never have the chance to otherwise, learn some new things, and get a good workout. It’s a lot of fun and I hope to see you there!

For more information see the flyer on Saturday’s event.

There will be no class this Monday, January 19th. The dojo is closed in observance of Martin Luther King day. Regular Monday night class will resume the following week on January 26th. Hope to see you there.

If you need some extra training though, on Saturday the 24th is the Pacific Martial Arts conference at Best Martial Arts. There are many excellent instructors teaching a variety of martial arts all day, and I will be teaching a segment on Systema at 11:30.