September 6, 2022
Salvador S Padilla
Self Defense
Master Salvador S. Padilla is an energetic professional with extensive experience in mentoring, team-building, and client development. He has over 35 years of progressive martial arts, hand-to-hand combat, stick, knife and pistol experience.
In addition to paid individual and group training, he has delivered instruction to tens of thousands of people via community outreach initiatives to social organizations, schools, and churches.
After experienced bullying as a child. Padilla joined a local martial arts academy expecting to learn self-defense, but he gained so much more: martial arts empowered him to communicate effectively through active listening and fundamentally and positively shaped his personality.
In 2003 he took a leap of faith and founded Padilla Martial Arts Inc., which he sold in 2010. In 2011 he opened Combat Fitness USA with a mission to empower individuals and small groups through realistic and progressive martial arts, hand-to-hand combat, stick, knife and pistol training.