DPACA - De Longis Performance & Combat Arts
ANTHONY DE LONGIS - Whip Master / Sword Master / Weapons Expert / Teacher-Trainer / Actor / Voice Artist / Horseman
Intensive Training and Instruction for Film, Television and Stage Performance, Historical and Modern Martial Skills. Step by step progressive lessons to train skills and develop confident professional level excellence.
“You can only ‘wing it’ if you have the skills to fly.”
De Longis been a professional Actor, Action Actor, Sword Master, Whip Master, Fight Coordinator, Weapons Expert and Teacher / Trainer in Film, Television, Stage and Opera for over 40 years creating and performing memorable roles and action in 13 countries on 5 continents. His experience with a broad range of European, Filipino and Japanese weapons and fighting styles gives him the unique ability to impart effective skills to actors and stunt performers quickly and effectively and create a ‘weapon of opportunity’ out of almost anything. De Longis specializes in helping Performers, Stunt Coordinators and Directors to create character driven story action and make the most of the project's action opportunities.
"Creating the energy and environment for your story action to be logical and effective improves martial sensitivity and combative awareness. Creating good action choreography gives you a relatively low stress opportunity to explore, control and refine distance, redirection and interception techniques at multiple ranges and adjust timing and execution accordingly. In other words story improves martial skills and martial skills, practice and experience improves story. It’s a useful symbiosis."
De Longis has taught, performed and collaborated with such worthies as Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jet Li, Tom Cruise, Brendan Fraser, Christian Kane, Anjelica Huston, Bo Derek, Placido Domingo, Yuen Woo Ping, Tim Burton, Ron Howard, David Carradine, Patrick Swayze, Angelica Huston, Placido Domingo, Charlton Heston, Richard Chamberlain and a host of other professional and amateur performers and martial artists from around the world.
He’s achieved REN-E 3rd Degree Black Belt & Instructor in Shinkendo and has been inducted into the Black Belt Hall of Fame, Ultimate Warriors Hall of Fame, USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame and the International Knife Throwers Hall of Fame.
Private Weapons Training at Rancho Indalo (www.delongis.com/indalo), our one-stop multi-skills training facility. Located top of the mountain in Canyon Country, about 45 minutes north of Universal Studios. Disciplines include whips, swords, bladed weapons on ground and horseback, on-site live fire gun range, archery, knife and hawk throwing, world class riding opportunities, fine dining and spa. We have horses trained for whip and weapons work and great riding opportunities for intermediate to advanced riders. Clients from across the country and around the world come to train in a variety of fight and weapons techniques.
De Longis Teachers & Coaches:
GODAN (5th degree) Black Belt, awarded 2010 at Karate College by the Dojo Association in Goshin Ju Jitsu by Sensei James Houston, Soke Michael De Pasquale, Coach Ric Anderton, Renzo Gracie, Dr. Jerry Beasley.
REN-E (3rd Degree Black Belt) / Instructor in Shinkendo : Japanese Swordsmanship under Sensei Mathew Lynch and founder Kaiso Toshishiro Obata
Black Belt Hall of Fame : Inducted 2008 as Weapons Instructor of the Year
Guro Dan Inosanto : Kali, Wing Chun, Penjak Silat, Savate, Boxing, Karate
Tae Kwon Do : Red Belt under Master Yong Kil Kim
European FENCING :
Maestro Ralph Faulkner, 15 years with Olympian and Coach of multiple champions, 'Sword Master to the Stars'
Coach Carlos Fuertes – Competition Director and Sports Manager for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, Pan Pacific Games Champion
Coach George Ganchev – Professional World Sabre Champion & British Fencing Team Coach
Coaches Gehrman Hailey, Mark Berger, Muriel Bower, Ted Katzoff
Maestro Ramon Martinez & Maestro Jeanette Acosta-Martinez : seminars in Rapier and Smallsword in Spain and France.
Maestro James Loriega: seminars in Navaja in Spain and Combat de Couteau in France
Whip Master Reel - https://www.imdb.com/video/vi945273113
Sword Master Reel - https://vimeo.com/124346745
ADL Horse Skills Reel - https://vimeo.com/124346746
Knife & Hawk Throwing Reel - https://vimeo.com/124346748
Acting reel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtKC8uT8Jt4
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A PRACTICAL AND COMBATIVE APPROACH TO MARTIAL TRAINING IN SPANISH RAPIER / ITALIAN RAPIER / FRENCH SMALL SWORD
In association with Anthony De Longis’ Palpable Hit Productions, Maestro Ramon Martinez and Maestro Jeanette Acosta-Martinez have created three instructional DVDs for the Spanish Rapier in LA VERDADERA DESTREZA, Italian Rapier in LA SCHERMA ITALIANA and the French school of Smallsword in L’ECOLE FRANÇAISE.
Taught by the Maestros Ramon Martinez and Maestro Jeanette Acosta-Martinez, the techniques of these complex and lethal forms of swordsmanship are presented in concise sequential lessons.
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Scott is now a member.
I picked up the bullwhip very late in life. Only about 10 years ago. It was a time in my life that was very challenging, I became a widower at the age of 47. Life didn't hold much meaning or interest for me after that. I decided to teach myself the bullwhip as a distraction from grief. Unknown to me at that time was the path that it would put me on. Instruction videos from Alex Green and Mark Allen got me started. But it was Mr. De Longis DVD's and other videos I could find, are what truly put me in touch with the whip as more than just a weapon. From there I learned enough to present a show at a local cowboy faire/Ren Faire/Pirate faire. I ended up as a cast member for those events. I discovered an entire new group of friends and activities to take part in. I never did any kind of performing in my past. Any yet here I am later doing a number of things including becoming a professional Santa Claus!! All this stemmed from picking up a bullwhip one day and saying, "Maybe this will let be forget about the hard things for a little while." It did...and more so. I will forever be indebted to Mr. De Longis for putting me on that journey. Thank you!!...to you both!!
Dear Scott. Thank you so much for sharing. I’m so pleased my methods inspired you to begin your studies with the whip. I’m also self taught which is why I don’t do it like everyone else. I’d be pleased to send you some of the articles I’ve written about my 4 decade journey with refining my methods with what I consider to be a Supersonic Flexible Blade. I’ve been studying European, Filipino and Japanese bladed weapons arts for over 5 years and they have been key to reimagining a more effortless, efficient, accurate, aesthetically pleasing and safer way to create a partnership with man’s first supersonic tool. I focus on sensitivity and structure and relaxation and the whip responds in kind.I’m delighted your journey opened the door to performing and making a lot of new friends. Send me pics of your Whip Cracking Santa and assure the kids that the reindeer are always safe and love the game. My dream was to take my weapons skills onto horseback but I wasn’t able to make that dream a reality until I was 39. Some 35 years later I’d ridden horses in 11 countries on 5 continents. I always ride with a whip and it takes me about 20-30 minutes to get a horse used to the idea and win their trust. Both horse and whip is about communication with your equine or supersonic parnter. Keep in touch and join us tomorrow for out Bullwhip Tango performance session. We’re also archiving the Live Stream so they can be enjoyed at your convenience.
Timothy Kittelstad is now a member.
One of the most effective and refined teachers I have had the pleasure of studying under. I’m beyond blessed to know Anthony!
Vixen is now a member.
thank you for this wonderful instruction! I am very grateful to have met you and to be learning your rolling loop system. Someone through the tip of my whip... and now I need to massage it back into rolling shape...
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