Masters on Tape: The NAPMA Video Archive
Before streaming, NAPMA sent its members video. The association filmed a run of champions teaching the techniques they were known for, alongside school owners talking about what membership had done for their businesses. This is that footage, collected in one place.
The Masters Series
NAPMA brought working champions into member schools on video — each one teaching a technique they were known for, filmed for instructors who would never get to train with them in person.
Instructor
Cung Le
San Shou champion, later a Strikeforce and UFC fighter, breaking down how to catch a kick in three short parts. Between them they account for 270,433 views — close to two‑thirds of everything in this archive.
Cung Le Teaches How to catch Kicks for NAPMA 3
182,331 views
Cung Le Teaches How to Catch Kicks for NAPMA 2
52,007 views
Cung Le Teaches How to catch Kick For NAPMA
36,095 views
Instructor
Fumio Demura
Shito-ryu master, recipient of the NAPMA & Martial Arts Professional Lifetime Achievement Award, and the man behind Mr. Miyagi’s karate in The Karate Kid.
Fumio Demura Teaches for NAPMA 2
27,135 views
Fumio Demura Teaches for NAPMA
22,669 views
Instructor
Dan Severn
UFC Hall of Famer, former UFC Superfight Champion and three‑time tournament winner, teaching the ground‑and‑pound game he built a career on, in three parts.
Dan Severn Teaches Ground & Pound for NAPMA
19,982 views
Dan Severn Teaches Ground & Pound for NAPMA 2
9,563 views
Dan Severn Teaches Ground & Pound for NAPMA 3
9,404 views
Instructor
Ernie Reyes, Sr.
Founder of West Coast World Martial Arts and a Lifetime Achievement recipient. This is an excerpt from his series on building a demonstration team, filmed for NAPMA members.
Ernie Reyes Sr. Teaches FOR NAPMA
23,617 views
Instructor
Frank Shamrock
The first UFC Middleweight Champion, filmed teaching a seminar for NAPMA members.
Frank Shamrock Teaches for NAPMA
5,674 views
Instructor
Jeff Smith
The first PKA World Light Heavyweight Champion and a Lifetime Achievement recipient — here in the ring rather than the classroom, knocking out Mark Bunell in Orlando in 1980.
World Champion Jeff Smiths Amazing Knockout
17,258 views
Instructor
Mike McDonald
Two short segments of padded sparring drills, filmed at a members’ seminar. The tape carries no identification beyond the name and we have not been able to confirm which Mike McDonald this is. If you were in the room, tell us.
Mike McDonald teaches for NAPMA2
2,291 views
Mike McDonald teaches for NAPMA
1,411 views
Instructor
Roger Jarrett
Filmed for NAPMA members. The tape carries no identification beyond the name; the likeliest match is Roger Jarrett of St. Albans, West Virginia, founder of the USA Martial Arts Federation — unconfirmed.
Roger Jarrett Teaches For NAPMA
2,816 views
Instructor
The Wu Shu Series
Four short films of a solo performer in competition silks working staff and weapons forms on a tournament floor, shot for NAPMA members. The performer is not named on the tape.
NAPMA Wu Shu 2
435 views
NAPMA Wu Shu 4
153 views
NAPMA Wu Shu
147 views
NAPMA Wushu 3
95 views
Members in Their Own Words
School owners talking about what the association did for their businesses, recorded at NAPMA events.
Archive
The Membership Speaks
Two long‑form reels, each running 7:42, in which members from around the country describe what the association changed about the way they ran their schools.
NAPMA Members in Their Own Words
474 views
NAPMA Members Speak
175 views
Archive
Individual Members
Short pieces from named members of the period — Ric Martin and Charles Chi on what NAPMA changed in their schools, and two clips from long‑time member Lamon Kersey.
NAPMA member Ric Martin
2,817 views
NAPMA member Charles Chi
874 views
Lamon Kersey Talks about NAPMA
725 views
Lamon Kersey Talks about NAPMA 2
313 views
The Association in Its Own Words
NAPMA talking about its own direction, in the year this footage was shot.
Archive
Vision and Innovation
NAPMA president Rob Colasanti previewing an Innovations DVD — the monthly package that went out to members — alongside a piece on the association’s own direction.
NAPMA innovations Nov. 2007
969 views
Creating the Future you Envision
313 views
Looking for the modern library? The current Business Breakthrough TV catalogue — 2,518 videos on marketing, enrollment, pricing, staff and teaching — lives at Martial Arts Professional.
These sessions come from the NAPMA archive. The full story of the association — and of the magazine that covered it — is in Thirty Years of NAPMA.