The Akban Academy

Founded in 1985 in Israel by Yossi Sheriff, the Akban School teaches traditional MMA to several hundred students. We train the way we like. We completely absorb ourselves in Japanese martial tradition but are constantly accumulating martial arts knowledge and fearlessly integrate this knowledge in our practice. We don’t care about politics, political values, belt systems or Mc-dojos – what matters to us is dojo time, that's it.

The only principle we follow is just two words: "No shortcuts".

It is not easy to say what makes the Akban community so robust; is it the Israeli situation, the top notch fitness? Who knows? We believe part of it is the special kind of students who choose training with us, students that get involved in unbelievable achievements and continue training for a lifetime. As we said, we don't know for sure, but we love the atmosphere, you can catch the scent of it in many of the images in our galleries.

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There are never guarantees that we’ll make a warrior from every new student, the only guarantee is that whatever we do, we do it with our extensive knowledge, our heart, taking no shortcuts, the way we see it.

אם אתה ישראלי שרוצה להתאמן בהגנה עצמית או ללמוד על אקבן אומנויות לחימה היכנס לאתר שלנו בעברית. תוכל להוריד תוכנית כושר גופני מוכחת, להכנס לגרסה העברית של אנציקלופדיית הלחימה או סתם להציץ בתמונות מהארועים המופרכים שלנו. ברוך הבא.

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Our Database of Martial Arts Techniques

We believe in building a community of martial artists from different disciplines dedicated to forming a comprehensive interactive martial art encyclopedia. Our philosophy is that through openness, dialog and debate martial art knowledge can be extended and refined.

Search for a technique in our encyclopedia

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Martial Arts Portals

Listed here are some of the martial arts we started documenting. Ninjutsu – Budo Taijutsu forms just a part of this database. The other self defense and fighting systems are ones we have incorporated and know. We do hope that one day we'll wake up and see other martial arts added by you!

Yep, we have a dream.

  • Budo Ninjutsu

    The martial art practiced at Akban, probably originated in the practices of Japanese mountain dwelling warriors and monks and evolved into specific methods of fighting.
    Budo Ninjutsu techniques

  • Judo

    Judo (柔道) jūdō "gentle way" is a martial art, combat sport, and philosophy which originated in Japan. We have been practicing Judo since day one in Akban. Check out our documentation and videos here:
    Judo techniques

  • Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

    Jujutsu (柔術:じゅうじゅつ, jūjutsu?), literally translates to "art of pliancy". We love it because we regularly study it with the best instructors: De la Riva, Renzo Gracie, Alan Moraes and more. A lot of time is invested in ground fighting in our school and it shows:
    Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu techniques

  • Capoeira

    Capoeira is a martial system, martial art and combat sport originated in Brazil. Capoeira is characterized by dance like movements and the full integration of the spectators and opponents.
    Capoeira techniques

  • Traditional weapons

    Maybe hundred years from now guns will be considered traditional weapons. Till then here are the techniques from TSKSR, Kali and western historical weapons. Feel free to edit.
    Traditional weapons techniques

  • Aikido

    Aikido, 合気道 is a martial art developed by Japanese Morihei Ueshiba as a synthesis of koryu martial arts he learned. Ueshiba combined combat techniques, philosophy and religious beliefs to a coherent martial practice.
    Aikido techniques

Martial Arts Instructors

If you are reading the vast amount of material we freely placed here you can probably guess – we aim for well rounded warriors. This takes time, hence our motto: "No shortcuts". This means thorough training knowledge of traditional Budo Taijutsu and modern systems and applying it in Randori.

You are invited to come here to Israel and do some martial arts training with us, either on our regular class schedule or on our special bi-monthly seminars.

Some of our veterans travel frequently for a seminar out side Israel contact tony@akban.org

Find an Akban martial arts instructor in your area (Israel only):

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