Here's the first lesson in our FREE 3-part video series, which serves as a primer to our upcoming EDC Karambit course.
ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTORS
Dr. Conrad Bui
Co-Founder & Chief Training Officer
With more than 40 years of continuous training, Dr. Conrad Bui is a certified advanced instructor in EIGHT different martial arts — including the bladed arts of Kali, Pentjak Silat, and Kuntao Silat de Thouars.
He has real-world experience, too, having worked as a bar bouncer back in his college years.
He’s also earned gold medals in 5 Jiu-Jitsu championships, and even hit double gold in the 2017 American Cup!
If that weren't enough, he's locked in first place in forms and fighting at numerous karate tournaments.
He combined all of the training, combat sports championships, real-world experience, and years of research into street violence to come up with the basis for what would become Tiga Tactics.
When he's not teaching others the science (and magic) of how to break people's bodies, he's healing them as a doctor of chiropractic.
Patrick Vuong
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Patrick is a certified instructor in 3 different systems — one of them being Pekiti-Tirsia Kali, a Filipino martial art that specializes in edged weapons.
For 9 years, he was also a contributing editor to Black Belt Magazine, the world's leading martial arts publication.
And for 5 years, Patrick served as the senior editor of Recoil Magazine … where he got to train under current and former members of America's most elite tactical units — including local police SWAT agencies, the Navy SEALs, and the Army Special Forces, picking up hands-on skills and in-the-field concepts like:
> Advanced handgun and rifle training
> High-risk dignitary protection (bodyguard work, evasive driving skills, and situational awareness development, etc.)
> Force-on-force training (think sparring with guns ... using non-lethal ammo)
> Physiological effects of the adrenaline dump (understanding the negative side effects of the startle response, rapid heart rate, hyperventilation, tunnel vision, etc.)
He's also quite passionate about training up female warriors-to-be, having taught women's self-defense since 2008.
Testimonials
Dr. Scott Sobel
“I had the pleasure of having Dr. Conrad Bui at my school for a seminar and the man is a
national treasure. He draws from an endless pool of knowledge gathered from some of the greatest living instructors. His excellent teaching style made it easy to learn even the
most advanced concepts. Whether you were a brand new beginner, or seasoned high level instructor, there was something for everyone.”
Ben Fajardo
“I have known Dr. Conrad Bui for decades, and I would consider him one of the most knowledgeable martial artists out there. He is one of the few teachers who can both perform and teach martial arts in an effective and practical way. If you are looking to learn martial arts and combatives, you need to look him up.”
Doug Dickens
“I want to thank you for a great class
and for influencing me in a profound
way.... Thank you for motivating me to
get off of my rear-end and exercise my
mind, body, and spirit.“
Arwen D.
"What I liked was that you broke it down to really simple things so I can walk out of here remembering it. And I like that you did the research — that’s much more useful than anything like this that I’ve been to before."
Shermin Chin
"The simplicity of the techniques is what really impresses me. Not only is it simple, it gives me a high percentage of surviving these types of ... ambushes."