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Instructor – Bram Frank

Originally Published in the FMADigest Special Issue 2005

Master Bram Frank      Bram is a first generation, personal student of the late Grandmaster and founder of Modern Arnis, Remy Presas. He has studied martial arts for 39 years and been involved in the Tactical application of the arts for many of those years.
     Professor Presas encouraged Bram to study the art of the blade, which he taught Bram and he now specializes in Modern Arnis knife and Bolo applications. From these studies Bram designed a couple of training systems and several modern tactical knives from the first Kinetic tactical folder knife the Escalator and its evolutionary sibling the Gunting made by Spyderco to his fixed blade tactical fighters the Abaniko and Lapu Lapu series designed for the US Military. Bram has recently been recognized in the Philippines as a Senior Master Instructor of Arnis of Modern Arnis by the Senior Master Council of Modern Arnis and is the current Director of Modern Tactical Styles for the Sokeship council.
     Bram currently is the Chief Instructor of Edged Weapons Training at the S2 Institute Police-Security Academy and is the Director and Founder of CSSD/SC -Common Sense: Self defense- Street Combat. Bram’s first love is teaching and he is available for seminars both public and private. He teaches seminars world wide to martial artists, LE, Military and Security groups. He has a full force continuum program using the Gunting that he teaches to PSD, Security and LE worldwide. Bram has also come up with a tactical Train the Trainer program for edged tool usage called MODULAR, which is able to be taught to others completely in 6 hours and to be taught by others after 12 hours.
Master Bram Frank      Bram runs one of the largest knife counter knife camps The Commandments of Steel in Tel Aviv Israel each year, which is going on its eighth year. He has a full DVD instructional series as well as accompanying books on the training. He and one of his Black Belt instructors, Greg Beeman have also developed an Extreme CQC combat shooting course for self defense applications.
     Bram can be contacted at www.CSSDSC.com where he lists his upcoming seminars such as his instructor camps, (one is coming up September 30th - Oct 3rd 2005 in Clearwater Florida) has a discussion forum, Photo gallery of events and of course an online shop to buy training tools, designed by Bram these are aluminum trainers with full grind lines and have red handles..that match exactly their live blade counterparts, live blades, the Abaniko by Onratio Knives, and Lapu Lapu by Strider Knives, both series of tactical fighters come in 7th and 5th and the Gunting Kinetic folder series with its non lethal counterpart the CRMIPT, (Close Range Medium Impact Tool, Instructional DVD’s and apparel).
     His email is Arnisman@aol.com. or write to CSSD/SC 3665 East Bay Drive, Suite 204-#233 , Largo, FL 33771-1965 727-319-0550. DVD sales contact: George at videokick@yahoo.com Memberships contact: Sharron at iDoes@westcentralsports.com
Master Bram Frank with Roland Dantes

Bram Frank (left) with
Modern Arnis Grandmaster Roland Dante

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