About Anjing Banfa

Master Peter Brusso founded Anjing Banfa in the early 70’s, after having returned from Vietnam. His observation was that martial arts lacked realism and needed to be well rounded. Existing styles focused on ground fighting only or stand up fighting only. These skills needed to be cross-trained as we are seeing today. Weapons and all weather fighting techniques also needed to be incorporated into a system that would produce results. Thus, Anjing Banfa was born and has flourished over the last 30 years.

Anjing Banfa practitioners strive to have good fighting skills whether on their feet, on the ground, or using any available weapon system. It is important to fight in every type of weather and terrain. Training conditions range from cold to hot, concrete to mud, extreme brightness to total darkness. Training occurs at altitude, on the ground and in water. Regardless of the scenario, Anjing Banfa’s primary focus is to survive the most violent attacks known to man. As thinking warriors, Anjing Banfa practitioners learn to apply chemistry, anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, math, and engineering in all things they do. These disciplines are necessary to understand how weapons work, how to design weapons, how the body works, and why techniques work. To improvise, adapt and overcome requires that a person draw upon a multidiscipline doctrine.

The knife fighting and weapons disarm aspect of Anjing Banfa has become known as one of the best systems of its kind. Taught around the world and to many types of warriors, it’s making its presence known in the combat world. Users of this system include forces of the USA, Britain, Germany, Russia, Thailand, and South America, just to name a few. Visit our knife and weapons disarm section to see the technology.

Anjing Banfa focuses on the individual person as a weapons system. “You are the weapon” is at the heart of the training. Both physical and mental aspects of warrior hood are taught from day one. It is a union of both these areas that make legendary warrior skills. Much of that concept is totally lost in today’s martial arts because they don’t have to fight for their lives. An art born of war will always strive to keep things simple and effective. Anjing Banfa was born from these roots and strives to keep this essence in the art. It’s not a martial art born of many rules or viewpoints; rather, it is a warrior art. Born of war and built for war. In the modern day perspective, survival in any situation is the goal of Anjing Banfa