About Allan Lawson's Fighting Arts, LLC
                                                       
Allan Lawson began his martial arts training in January 1974 as a member of Marcorie Cooper's first class of students at Lightning Fire Mountain, a Shaolin style Kung Fu school located in the South Dakota Black Hills, where he studied during one semester of college. 

Living in areas where instructors were unavailable, he then began an independent nineteen and a half year course of study and training in applied martial arts guided by the  writings of  Bruce Lee on Jeet Kune Do, his own intuition,  and insights he  was able to glean from other writings, films and school visits. His teachers were the forces of nature and the challenges he created for himself.

Next he took instruction in Kung Fu San Soo and Escrima from Master Scott Leitch in Mesa and Chandler, Arizona from January 1994 until July 1999.

At that time he began teaching friends and acquaintances until February 7, 2006, when he formed Allan Lawson's Fighting Arts, LLC intending to make this training program more widely available and build a core group of proficient, dedicated students and associate instructors.

He also took lessons in Yin Style Bagua with Ed Guerra's study group in Mesa, Arizona for several months in 1999. 

He considers himself a student first, teaching as a means to gain greater understanding himself, as well as to share with others.
  
                        

Allan Lawson earned an Associate of Science Degree in Management at the National College of Business, a Bachelor of Arts Degree with a double major in History and Anthropolory and Archaeology, with a concentration in grauate level courses in Linguistics from the University of North Dakota, and a Juris Doctor Degree from the University of North Dakota School of Law. 

He is a member of The State Bar Association of North Dakota and has been admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota.  He was owner of Lawson Law Offices in that state where he practiced law for approximately 5 years before moving to Arizona in 1990.

Other interests include natural health and  nutrition, fitness, backpacking, camping, travel, research and writing, economics, business systems, investment, real estate and home construction and repair projects.


Integrative Functional ConditioningSM

Integrative Functional Conditioning is a dynamic performance oriented mind-body-spirit approach to training. It is not merely a weight loss or body building program, although a lean, strong physique is necessarily one of the natural results of this intensive training. It is much more comprehensive, involving development of greater capacity for endurance, strength, quickness and flexibility, not only in a physical sense but psychological, cognitive and spiritual as well. As an example, rather than focusing on this or that isolated muscle and thinking only of increasing it's size, we consider the being as a whole. We want the whole creature undivided, working as one. We are more interested in capacity than in appearances. We are interested in developing useful skills and abilities. This is the ultimate self defense fitness training program.

Two Phoenix Area Locations (Maricopa County) 

NE Valley
Near the Tatum and Shea cross streets in the Paradise Valley area. Conveniently located between the  51 Freeway and the north and east legs of the Loop 101 Freeway.  Short travel times from Scottsdale, Tempe, eastern Phoenix and Mesa.

NW Valley
Near Bell Road and the west leg of the Loop 101 Freeway in the Sun City area.  Proximate to the cities of Surprise, Glendale, Peoria, El Mirage and western Phoenix. 

Class Schedule

This training program  consists of three classes per week.  Classes are two hours in length.  We will do our best to accomodate you and your work schedule.

Membership Fee 

The current Membership Fee is $120.00 per month.  Family rates are available.

Contact Information

Please use the Contact Form on the How to Choose a Martial Art page to inquire about instruction and school membership. Other correspondence may be sent by clicking on the Email button near the top of each page.