Background
All of the subjects taught at the B.A.M.A were developed by the schools founder - Pete Delane. Since 1979 he has relentlessly sought to remove the impediments that he believes afflict the "Martial Arts" in general, seeking to ensure that any combat art taught at the B.A.M.A is both relevant and applicable to a student of this modern era.
Many Western schools are devoted to the "Martial Arts" of the past holding as sacrosanct the transmission of all of the teachings and training methods of old, regardless of worthiness or applicability in the modern world. This approach inevitably means that outdated, unrealistic or mythical techniques and training methods are, unfortunately, carried along with anything that might be good. The B.A.M.A recognizes that a living history book is an invaluable mirror that captures and reflects the deep heritage of the Martial Arts and entrusts a task of such importance to the historians of those traditions, prefering for its self to adopt a more rational, effective, "real world" approach.
Conversely however, many of these same schools have chosen to dilute the historically important and fundamental underpinnings of the MA - Abandoning the traditional values of discipline, loyalty, integrity and honour in their attempt to integrate their arts into an antithisistic western society and appease the mind sets of their western student base.
Here at the B.A.M.A it is these very values, (that constitute the essence of the true spirit of the Martial Arts of the East), that are upheld as sacrosanct, coupled with a contemporary and progressive approach to the training methods and combat techniques. Thus, his insistence in upholding the honourable traditions of the 'Ways of the Warrior' yet constantly evolving the martial aspects of the “Combat Arts” through the application of western science, Pete Delane has developed a Martial Arts school where the student benefits from the best of both worlds without being trapped by the redundant dogma of either.