Welcome to Master Davies Elite Leadership Academy...
Congratulations for visiting the website of 'Master Davies Elite Leadership' Academies; a growing organisation of professional Martial Arts schools dedicated to pursuing cutting edge development and principles in providing men,women and children with Martial Arts training for the 21st Century.
With over forty years of Martial Arts experience, accumulating one World league team title, a European Silver Medal and being a nine time British Champion, plus the holder of an internationaly recognised 8th Dan Black Belt, Grandmaster Andy Davies is now working with leading Martial Arts exponents throughout the world to take Martial Arts training and teaching to new and exciting dimensions.
Now, through our high quality professional Leadership Martial Arts programme, we empower people of all ages to achieve their potential by emphasizing self-defence, health, fitness, and life skills in a friendly safe and positive environment and by doing so inspire our members to become more confident, successful and contributing members of the community.
The brand of Martial Arts that we teach transcends the physical 'art' and includes the additional self-defence skills of kindness, empathy, community and compassion.
Although there might be a great many talented Martial Arts practitioners around, who are competent performers, they may often lack the necessary leadership skills and systems to make the kind of differences needed in todays society.
What sets us apart from many other Martial Arts Schools is that we are a dedicated and professional organisation with the skills, experience and systems in place to be both leaders and innovators. An added bonus is that rather than substitute physical skills it actually enables us to enhance it thus maintaining recognised high standards of quality tuition and performance.
"Leaders take the helm - others just get buffeted by the wake!"
As Martial Arts instructors, we have a big responsibility in the way we teach Martial Arts. We asked ourselves ‘Why just teach people to defend themselves when the problem is often that people aren't even the master of their own lives?'
Just teaching a child or adult to kick someone else in the head isn't the answer, so we decided to reach out to people by giving them the confidence to take control, set goals and go forward through an elite leadership training programme. We aim to help people to set goals and make them better people by assisting their community in positive ways to help change their lives and that of their environment.
The truth is that in Martial Arts, no-one has really cared beyond politics and techniques, and beyond challenging instructors as Martial Artists nothing has been done to challenge their position as to what they are or by challenging their reputation and influence to do more for others. If all we do is teach a person to kick and punch someone, then all we are doing is teaching violence as a solution to problems.
This is why what we offer makes much more sense, so why wouldn't people want to be part of that?
What kind of value is in just learning to beat someone up? We want to differentiate between those who just want to kick and punch and those who really want to do something positive. We are in a different frameset – we don't measure ourselves by your strongest student but by our weakest.
- Grandmaster Andy Davies 8th Dan