RAPID ARNIS INTERNATIONAL

Tuhon Nigel Herterich started martial arts training at the age of seven when he began boxing which he continued until his early twenties, also during those years he trained in Greco-roman wrestling, archery and fencing with eppe, foil and cutlass. Overlapping with boxing in his teenage years he began his first studies of the eastern martial arts systems, notably judo and aikido.

It wasn't long after this that Tuhon Herterich had the good fortune to make the acquaintance of the two martial artists who have most strongly influenced his development in the study of martial arts ever since.

The first of these was Soke Andy McGill (10th Dan) founder and chief instructor of Kenpo Kwai International, who nigel has studied Kenpo and other arts under ever since.

A short while after this Tuhon Herterich met Mataas Ne Tuhon Pat O'Malley(8th Dan) founder and chief instructor of Rapid Arnis International with whom he has studied Arnis and a variety of associated arts and continues to do so to this day.

Within his own teaching styke Tuhon Herterich has combined the full range of what he has learnt from both instructors.

Tuhon Herterich also beleives that there are many similarities between Kenpo and Arnis and there are elements of each art that highlight the differences.

In his many years of the study Tuhon Herterich has discoverd and understood that Arnis an element that always marked it out as unique was the fluency of the stick and knife technique and the rapidity of the response, also the interchangeable dexterity of single and double stick, single and double knife and the combination of stick and knife.

Tuhon Herterich beleives that Arnis has at its core a physical durability that it prides itself on, it also encourages the intellectual development of the martial arts student so that the mind and the body are trained together and because f this he beleives that Arnis is particularly well placed to teach both physical and mental dexterity.