News

• 04-03-2011: Jeet Kune Do - Sayoc Kali seminar on March 26-27
• 15-02-2011: Kettlebells Seminar on February 26th
• 18-11-2010: Κickboxing seminar with instructor George Mallios
• 28-08-2010: Lessons resume Sep 6th
• 24-06-2010: Kettlebells Seminar on July 10th

Instructors

The Academy’s instructors are responsible adults, properly trained, who really love doing their job well. Our philosophy is to try harder every day, so that we become better in all aspects. We constantly invest in our personal education, training and progress, in order to offer even more advanced programs to our students.

Aris Adamopoulos

Head Instructor

Aris Adamopoulos has been practicing martial arts since his childhood. He has gained tournament experience as an athlete of Tae Kwon Do and has served the Greek Marine forces with distinction. He’s been practicing Jeet Kune Do (JKD) and Filipino Martial Arts (FMA) since his first training with instructor Vaggelis Zorbas in 1997. Since then, he’s been training in Greece and abroad in various fighting systems under notable instructors such as: (the late) Sifu Larry Hartsell, Marc Denny, Bill Maniotes, Marc Scott, John Kefalonitis, Vadim Kolganov, and George Mallios.

Furthermore, he’s a certified instructor in Jun Fan JKD/FMA and PFS (Progressive Fighting Systems), under top instructors Sifu Nick Sacoulas (JKD/FMA/Muay Thai/CSG/ΜΜΑ) and Sifu Paul Vunak (JKD/FMA/BJJ/PFS) respectively, while he has already gathered significant experience as a practical self-defense instructor

Dimitris Tsatsanis

Assistant Instructor / Program Director

Dimitris Tsatsanis had practiced martial arts (Shaolin Kung Fu) for a short period as a teenager, but began training intensively in Jeet Kune Do (JKD) and Filipino Martial Arts (FMA) in 2004, right after his first training experience with Aris Adamopoulos.

Since then, he grew a great passion for martial arts which led him to further exploration under the guidance of top instructors such us: Guro Nick Sacoulas, George Mallios, Spyros Katsigiannis, Marc Denny, Marc Scott and Sifu Paul Vunak who has already certified him as an instructor in PFS (Progressive Fighting Systems)

Nikolaos-Apollon Papandreou

Wing Chun Instructor

Nikolaos-Appollon Papandreou began his training in Wing Chun Kung Fu and Jeet Kune Do since 1995 and participated in many fighting tournaments with distinction.

His great passion for Kung Fu led him all the way to China, where he practiced various traditional Kung Fu systems and focused on “Shaolin Five Animals”, “Seven Star Praying Mantis” and “Chien” sword. After his research in Asia, he continued training in Wing Chun Kung Fu (Wong Shun Leung lineage) with instructor Oliver Sotra and currently under Sifu Evaggelos Basilakis who is the head instructor of Wong Shun Leung – Gary Lam lineage in Europe.