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.

https://www.martinez-destreza.com/