Dave Hebler’s Gift of Power is a Martial Arts Organization whose primary mission is to provide a wide range and variety of services to its membership. These services include:

RANK AND LINEAGE:
It is important, perhaps even vital, that an individual Martial Arts practitioner be able to prove that his or her rank and lineage come from a legitimate and respected organization with a solid reputation in the Martial Arts Community. GOP is an organization with impeccable credentials whose rank certificates are highly prized and recognized world-wide. (Click here for list of instructors and bios)

NOTE: Both non- Kenpo schools and independent practitioners, who decide to become members of GOP for the training opportunities available to GOP members, MAY be able to earn legitimate rank from GOP through our international workshop programs in combination with our training literature and videos.

INTERNATIONAL REGISTRY OF RANK:
GOP has established an International Registry of Rank for the staff and students of each member school as well as for our individual members
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All certificates of rank (white through the various levels of black) will be registered in our permanent files and posted on our website. This posting will include all pertinent information such as name, rank, date, certificate number, instructor(s) name and name and location of school.

This information will become a permanent and certified record of each member’s legitimate rank and lineage.

TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES:
GM Dave Hebler has gathered together a teaching staff of professional, world-class instructors whose teaching expertise and “on-the-ground,” real-world experience in a variety of very real and dangerous situations is, we believe, unique to any single organization.

It bears noting that the teaching staff at GOP has, collectively, taught hundreds of thousands of people from all walks of life in the course of their long and prestigious careers
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As a member of GOP, you and your school will have the opportunity to acquire some or all of the exceptional knowledge that these outstanding instructors can provide through their various workshops and training materials.

Most of the training professionals at GOP have produced educational materials in the form of books, manuals and videos in their particular areas of expertise. These materials are available through GOP.

Regardless of Martial Arts style or affiliation, if you are interested in integrating into your school curriculum some real-world solutions to the violence so prevalent in today’s society, then the teaching professionals at GOP are for you.

EXAMPLES:
One example of the kinds of expertise available to our membership can be found in the practical applications of Trever Sherman and Fred Mergen in their much acclaimed “Kenpo Combat Science” training program.

Their suggested curriculum includes:

GOP is capable of offering a “complete American Kenpo curriculum” up to 5th Degree Black Belt. This includes:

In addition, a sound and fundamental Brazilian Jui Jitsu, Muay Thay, American kickboxing, Judo, Women’s self-defense and sharp edged weapons offensive and defensive curricula.

NOTE:
Unlike other Martial Arts organizations, GOP does not and will not dictate curriculum to its member schools. Nor will GOP dictate the specific rank advancement criteria within each school.

Furthermore, the Gift of Power organization does NOT require that members belong only to GOP. Members may join any other organization they choose.

Acceptance of membership is an acknowledgement that GOP approves the curriculum and rank requirements of that particular school. GOP Directors are available for consultation with respect to school operating procedures. However, the judgment of the owner/chief instructor on the operational procedures of his/her school is the final word.