To contact Sifu Eric Marks: email at:  or call 828-773-6531

Mission Statement

To provide the highest quality martial arts and wellness training available. To encourage personal growth and development for each individual student at his or her own pace, emphasizing both physical, mental and spiritual conditioning.

To inspire students to see beyond their current potential and reach new levels of personal success by setting goals and achieving them, building character, and improving confidence and self-esteem.

To seek improvement in ourselves and others by building our bodies to their highest physical, mental and spiritual potential. To promote all martial arts regardless of style. To instill traditional martial arts values of respect, discipline, honor, loyalty, family, and courage, building leadership skills and social accountability.

To support each student on their martial arts journey toward discovering and claiming their own personal power from within and teaching the discipline and self-control to take responsibility for that power.

To integrate martial arts into daily life and build positive, disciplined students. To balance body, mind and spirit. To improve self-discipline, inspire personal development, challenge creativity in adults, promote academic excellence in children, and increase the appreciation of a healthy body, mind and spirit. To Build Confidence. We provide personal combat and wellness systems to all ages. At Blue Ridge Kung Fu Arnis Academy, we teach many arts. No single art fits every person the same way because no two people are the same.

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