Welcome to Asian Fighting and Healing Arts (AFHA)

The instructors, Chris Quayle and John Picker, both senior students of Dr. Vince Black, have a combined experience of over forty years as practitioners, and more than thirty as instructors of the traditional Chinese internal arts (Hsing-I, Ba Gua, and Tai Chi) as well as Emperado’s Method Kajukenbo. Both Chris and John are affiliated with the North American Tang Shou Tao Association (founder Dr. Vince Black) as well as the Kajukenbo Self Defense Institute (KSDI) founded by Sijo Adriano D. Emperado.
    At AFHA we consider a practical approach essential for the proper development of the practitioner. Practicality is equally essential to our research of the traditional internal boxing systems. We believe martial arts expertise begins with gravity. Gravity, in this context, refers to becoming centered through hard work by engaging in such activities as physical exercise, standing Qi Gong practice, and the application of proper breathing techniques, among others, before the fullest and truest expression of the internal boxing systems (in both form and practical application) is possible.