AMAA offers one of the most highly respected, quality mixed martial arts programs in the nation. The choice to join AMAA is a choice to join a distinguished, time-honored martial arts academy that is rich in tradition, lineage, and reputation. Founded by Sifu Dan Anderson in 1996, Anderson’s Martial Arts Academy continues to grow in its size and stature. However, it remains committed to the task of providing students with the most practical and effective self-defense skills – rooted in the principles of martial arts. MANIFESTO Anderson’s Martial Arts Academy is not a gym, we are an academy of higher learning and standards. We are a teacher’s teacher. We are professionals. Masters. We are eternal students of our arts. We give freely and with quality. Our arts and education are not accumulated commonly, easily or generally. From our students we demand respect, action, bravery, loyalty, trust, humility, integrity and kindness.