History of Fort Worth Combatives
Fort Worth Combatives started in 2010 as Fort Worth Ninjutsu, teaching the martial art American Ninjutsu to the Dallas, Fort Worth and surrounding area. Robert Klenka, who at the time was a assistant instructor at the Arlington American Ninjutsu school, when Yvonne Falgout, the head instructor at the Arlington school told him he was ready to branch out and start his own school in Fort Worth.
Our first Fort Worth Ninjutsu location was inside MetroFlex Gym. During our three years at MetroFlex Gym, Robert Klenka was also at BigDSystema in Dallas training in Russian Martial Art Systema under head instructor Cash Nickerson and assistant instructor Dimitri Guz. Robert was also training in AMOK knife fighting and combatives with Steve Miles in Killeen Texas. Soon Fort Worth Ninjutsu was part of the Central Texas Combatives Training Group as the Fort Worth Branch. During this time we added Systema and AMOK training groups into our weeknight classes. We also hosted many CTCTG, Systema, AMOK, Firearms seminars for the Fort Worth Area.
In 2012, under the recommendation of Cash Nickerson, Robert Klenka went to the Russian Martial Art Systema Camp in Toronto Canada in 2012 and tested for Systema Instructor under head instructor Vladimir Vasiliev. On his return back to Texas we formally added Russian Martial Art Systema to our class list. During this time we also added more NRA Firearm courses and Texas License to Carry Classes to our repertoire. Since we started branching out beyond American Ninjutsu, adding more combatives based systems, we then decided to changed the name from "Fort Worth Ninjutsu" to "Fort Worth Combatives".
In 2013 we left MetroFlex and into our own building that we called "The Warehouse". We soon found out that this location was pretty awful in the cold winters and in the hot summer so after about a year we teamed up with a group we met during our time at MetroFlex, Texas Defense Academy. At Texas Defense Academy we taught regular nightly American Ninjutsu, Russian Systema, and AMOK Knife Fighting classes. Overtime we started to grow apart from American Ninjutsu and eventually phased the class out of rotation. In 2015 Robert Klenka earned his Russian Cossack Systema Instructor certificate under Andrey Karimov becoming one of only a few in the United States.
Then soon after there was a falling out with AMOK, then Instructor Steve Miles took all of his years of military training and martial arts and created ALIVE! Combatives and Gunfighting was born, where Robert Klenka earned his Group Leader status in 2017 under head instructor Steve Miles. In 2018 Robert Klenka earned his National and State EMT-B certifications and licenses, Emergency Care and Safety Institute Instructorship, Stop The Bleed Instructorship. He followed that up in 2019 when Robert Klenka graduated Texas COLE accredited S.W.A.T. Medic school and registered as a Committee for Emergency Tactical Casualty Care Educational Partner. Then in 2020 Robert Klenka earned his Texas Level 4 Security Personal Protection Officer license where he has now provided high level security protection and medical details and training for multi-million dollar corporations.
In 2021 Fort Worth Combatives became a Sambo Nation Affiliate adding Sport and Combat Sambo to their weeknight classes. Then in 2024 Robert Klenka passed his Gracie Combatives® Instructor test and has become a independently owned and operated Certified Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Training Center. Teaching Gracie Jiu-Jitsu® weeknights in Fort Worth.
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