We’re getting ready to drop our next digital seminar, and this one is going to be special. Before the full course release, we’re hosting a FREE live online seminar with Jay Cooper of Reality Check called: Too Close For Comfort This seminar focuses on one of the most common and dangerous situations in self-defense — when someone gets inside your personal space and past your comfort zone. Jay will break down practical strategies, mindset, and techniques to help you: • Recognize and manage close-range confrontations • Respond confidently under pressure • Avoid getting trapped in compromised situations • Improve your self-defense awareness and options Whether you're a beginner or an experienced martial artist, this seminar will give you tools you can apply immediately. Jay brings real-world experience from years in policing and martial arts instruction, and his ability to make complex ideas simple, practical, and even fun to learn makes him one of our favorite people to train with. 📅 Free Live Seminar Saturday, February 21 11:00 AM Mountain Standard Time Live online for Budo Brothers Academy members. And for everyone who attends live, we’ll release a special promo code giving you a major discount on the full Too Close for Comfort follow-along training course when it launches. Mark It In Your Calendars, Can't wait to see you there

Hope you guys enjoy this wing chun lesson with Sifu Francis Fong!

As a thank you for being here, we’d love to give you a free gift. A few years ago, Erik and I teamed up with our good friend and author David Badurina to write Joy-Jitsu, a book about our mindset, the struggles of building Budo Brothers, and how martial arts principles helped us turn obstacles into opportunities while creating the lifestyle and business you see today. It’s a story about chasing your dreams and building a life filled with purpose, resilience, and joy. We originally wrote it for our 20-year-old selves, but we wanted to share it with you as well. Simply click the link below to go to our store checkout, where the promo code FREEJOY will automatically give you a 100% discount on both the digital book and audiobook downloads. 👉 https://bit.ly/4qgVJY9 If the book resonates with you, we’d appreciate you helping spread the message — share it with someone who might need it, or pick up a physical copy for a friend who could benefit from it. We hope you enjoy it. Much love, Erik, Kyle & David

We’ve created a 2026 Training Vault (located in the classroom tab) where all videos we produce this year will be archived and organized by month, making them easy to find and follow. We’ll also be adding past content into an Old Vault so you can explore videos we’ve filmed over the years in one place. Hope this gives you tons of content to train with and enjoy. Let us know what you think, and who or what you’d like to see next!

Hey everyone! As a thank-you for being part of our Skool community, we’re excited to kick off our first monthly giveaway. Every Skool member is automatically entered using the email you signed up with. We’ll be picking one winner each month. February Draw Details: Date: February 4 Time: 1:00 PM MST Prize: Budo Brothers Hood-Gi Live Draw: We’ll be doing it live on Zoom — the link is in the Skool calendar Since we’re still a small group (about 100 members), your chances are great for this first draw. Thanks for being here, and good luck! We’re looking forward to doing these giveaways every month.