The Martial Flow Method

A system for real-world skill

Martial Flow is not “seven styles in one room.” It’s a coherent training system built around ranges, attributes, and pressure testing. You learn what matters, in the order it matters — and you learn to stay calm enough to apply it.

Range-based

Weapons → Striking → Clinch → Ground

We train the full continuum. Even if you never carry a weapon, weapon awareness improves footwork, timing, and decision-making in empty-hand situations.

Attribute-led

Timing, Structure, Composure

You build attributes that transfer across contexts: sensitivity, base, balance, clinch control, and the ability to solve problems under stress.

Pressure-tested

Alive drills, progressive resistance

We start technical and clean, then add pressure in stages. Skills are tested without turning every session into a war.

How the arts integrate

Jeet Kune Do

JKD gives the philosophy: simplicity, directness, and adaptation. It’s the operating system — not a catalogue of techniques.

Kali / FMA

Weapons training teaches angles, deception, and “why” movement works. The intelligence transfers to empty-hand striking and clinch entries.

Silat

Silat contributes off-balancing, structural attacks, and decisive finishing — especially when things get messy in close range.

Muay Thai & Boxing

These arts build clean fundamentals: base, rhythm, defence, and the conditioning to stay functional when tired.

Grappling / BJJ

Grappling teaches control. Clinch to takedown to ground: you learn to stabilise, escape, and finish without panic.

Lineage anchors

Lineage matters because it protects quality. Martial Flow is rooted in teachers who demanded practicality, precision, and humility.

Primary instructor

Bob Breen (4D Combat) — Widely regarded as the godfather of European JKD and Kali. A direct student of Dan Inosanto, Bob has shaped generations of serious practitioners with an exceptionally clear, pressure-tested approach to JKD, Kali (stick & knife), and Boxing.

Primary instructor

Daniel Lonero (XTMA) — A world-class martial artist and instructor with outstanding integration across JKD, Kali, Silat, Boxing and Muay Thai. Known for sharp detail, strong athletic delivery, and a modern training methodology that still respects lineage and fundamentals.

Grappling anchor

Fabio Prado — BJJ Black Belt in the Roger Gracie lineage and a Capoeira Mestre. Fabio’s approach blends positional control, pressure, and composure with movement intelligence and rhythm — a major backbone of Martial Flow’s grappling layer.

Foundational influence

Sifu Norman Morrison (RIP) — Founder of Shaolin Quanshu and Marcos’ first martial arts instructor. A gifted, hyper-talented teacher whose influence formed early foundations of structure, discipline, coordination, and intensity — still carried through Martial Flow today.

Key influences

Winston Frasier (RIP) (Muay Thai) • AbduRahman Blanchette (Silat Asli / Futuwwa)