HANDS-ON COACHING.
REAL-TIME CORRECTION.
DEEPER SKILL DEVELOPMENT.
Train privately with the Legacy Academy team in Woodstock, Georgia, connect during a U.S. teaching tour, schedule live online coaching, or bring us to your location for a seminar or camp.
Train privately with the Legacy Academy team in Woodstock, Georgia, connect during a U.S. teaching tour, schedule live online coaching, or bring us to your location for a seminar or camp.
Real-Time Feedback Changes Everything
Video training is a powerful tool, but some parts of martial arts can only be developed through direct coaching, hands-on correction, and real-time feedback.
Real-Time Correction
Receive immediate feedback and eliminate mistakes before they become habits.
Hands-On Learning
Experience timing, pressure, positioning, and body mechanics firsthand.
Accelerated Progress
Shorten the learning curve and make faster improvements in less time.
Personalized Coaching
Training is adapted to your goals, experience level, and specific challenges.
Pressure & Timing
Develop attributes and reactions that cannot be fully learned through video alone.
Clear Direction
Leave with practical drills, actionable feedback, and a plan for continued growth.
“Video can show you what to do. Live training helps you understand how and why it works.”
Book A Training SessionDecades Of Teaching. Thousands Of Students. Real Results.
For more than three decades, Alan Baker has taught seminars, instructor camps, private coaching sessions, and academy events throughout the United States. Each training event is designed to improve skill, understanding, and performance through direct hands-on coaching.
Live training gives students something video cannot: immediate correction, personal guidance, pressure, timing, and the ability to feel the details that make the arts work.
Training Designed For Every Stage Of The Journey
Whether you’re looking to improve your personal skills, develop instructors, strengthen your academy, or provide specialized training for a team, these programs can be tailored to meet your goals.
Martial Arts Students
Improve mechanics, timing, confidence, and understanding through direct coaching and personalized feedback.
Instructors & Coaches
Develop teaching ability, curriculum structure, coaching systems, and methods for improving student retention and progress.
Academies & Schools
Host seminars, workshops, instructor camps, and special training events designed to deliver value to your students and staff.
Organizations & Teams
Customized training programs for professional groups, security teams, executive protection personnel, and private organizations.
No matter your experience level, the goal remains the same: develop practical skills, deeper understanding, and long-term growth through quality instruction.
The Instructors Behind Your Private Training And Seminars
Private lessons, online coaching, seminars, and workshops are delivered by experienced instructors who understand how to simplify complex material, correct details in real time, and help students make meaningful progress.
Sifu/Guro/Professor Alan Baker
For more than 35 years, Alan Baker has taught martial arts, instructor development, defensive tactics, and protection-focused training throughout the United States. Known for his ability to simplify complex concepts, Alan helps students, instructors, and organizations build practical skills through clear, structured, hands-on training.
Sifu/Guro David Mitchell
David Mitchell has trained under Alan Baker for more than two decades and serves as a senior instructor within Legacy Academy. His coaching focuses on mechanics, skill development, and helping students understand the principles that connect multiple martial arts systems into a functional training methodology.
Depending on the goals of your training event, sessions may be conducted by Alan Baker, David Mitchell, or both instructors working together to create the best learning experience for your students, academy, or organization.
Seminars Designed For Real Skill Development
Whether you are looking to improve your academy, develop instructors, strengthen your curriculum, or expose your students to new concepts, these are some of the most requested training topics taught by Alan Baker and the Legacy Academy instructional team.
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Positional control, submissions, transitions, pressure concepts, and practical applications designed to improve performance on the mat.
Filipino Kali & Weapons
Single stick, double stick, knife work, empty-hand integration, and the movement principles that make Filipino Martial Arts so effective.
Jeet Kune Do Concepts
Timing, interception, adaptability, efficiency, and the core principles that shaped Bruce Lee’s revolutionary approach to combat.
Wing Chun Kung Fu
Structure, sensitivity, centerline control, trapping skills, and close-range fighting concepts applicable to multiple systems.
Instructor Development
Learn how to communicate more effectively, structure classes, retain students, and become a more impactful instructor.
Self-Defense & Defensive Tactics
Practical personal protection, conflict management, control tactics, and real-world defensive skills for today’s environment.
Ready To Bring Alan Baker To Your Academy?
Whether you’re looking for private coaching, online mentorship, instructor development, or a seminar for your academy, we can help create a training experience tailored to your goals and your students.
Trusted By Serious Martial Artists And Instructors
Legacy Academy training has impacted students, instructors, and leaders across the martial arts community.
“Alan Baker holds the unique agent-of-change leadership position among Martial Artists. His ceaseless pursuit of effectiveness and the methods of success that he imparts to students and instructors separate him among all others in our profession.”
“I can honestly say that Sifu Alan has over the years consistently impressed my students and myself with expansion of concepts that forever improved and positively changed our skillset and abilities on the mat and the real world.”