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About Us

Meet our Founder...

 

Brook Moes

4th Degree Black Belt, B.M. University of the Pacific (California), M.M. University of Maryland, M.B.A. Herriot-Watt University (Scotland).  Combat studies with Jung Moon, Ray Krieger, and John Popke

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As a former Operations Director with World Heritage, Mr. Moes has conducted and run operations and adventured in over 30 countries on 5 continents. He has taught institutes, workshops and regular classes for the US Military at the Presidio of Monterey and for private corporations and institutes at such prestigious universities as Stanford, Catholic University in Washington D.C., the University of the Pacific, and the University of Maryland. He has also frequently run workshops in Hawaii, Virginia, Maryland, Utah, Maine, Montana, and a number of European countries.  His students have won full scholarships to a number of universities and top prizes in a number of local, state and national competitions.

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Before the fall of the Soviet Union, Mr. Moes along with his family smuggled behind the Iron Curtain posing as tourists while actually running relief aid missions for Dorcas Aid International.

 

Over the last ten years, Mr. Moes has completed extensive Special Weapons And Tactics training and is a certified edged weapons and firearms instructor.

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He and his wife Tonya currently reside on their ranch in  California with their 13 children. 

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Our Faculty

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Our Faculty undergo constant ongoing training with the finest martial artists and weapons specialists in America. We also work very hard to improve  our pedagogical methods with both adults and children.  When you sign up for training with us, you will regularly have opportunities to participate along with us in training under our Grand Masters. 

Brook Moes Victoria Moes

Sonora Martial Arts

16044 Via Este Rd Sonora CA 95370 

209-790-9597

Murphys Martial Arts

265 Tom Bell Road Unit F Murphys CA 95247

209-630-1421 

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