Martial arts lessons for children, women, men, and families.
Children's Martial Arts Classes
Children's Martial Arts Classes
Children's Martial Arts Classes
Discover why parents love our kids martial arts classes! Our program infuses kids with powerful self-defense skills, Bullyproofing, Rules of Engagement, Stranger Awareness as well as respect, discipline, and focus to help them in school and life.
Kid's & Youth Martial Arts
Children's Martial Arts Classes
Children's Martial Arts Classes
Our Bully Prevention program will give your child the skills to handle any situation. Teaching physical fitness, self-defense, and building self-confidence, we will prepare your child for this ever-changing world. They will never be a victim again.
Teen's Martial Arts
Children's Martial Arts Classes
Teen's Martial Arts
Teens learn decision-making skills that allow them to effectively deal with difficult situations related to drugs, alcohol, and bullying. Most importantly, teens learn to handle the challenges of growing up, so they can become healthy, successful young adults.
Women's Self-Defense
Cardio Fitness Kickboxing
Teen's Martial Arts
So much more than a women's self-defense class! Not only will you learn how to use Mixed Martial Arts, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Combat Hapkido and Krav Maga to defend against the most common threat scenarios, you will also experience empowerment, fun, and fitness in a safe and supportive environment!
Cardio Fitness Kickboxing
Cardio Fitness Kickboxing
Cardio Fitness Kickboxing
DWCMAP martial arts in Granbury, Tx offers Fitness Kickboxing with a dynamic group of likeminded people who come together to build confidence, inspire one another and strive to develop the best you possible through each workout. You strap on real gloves and learn pro moves that make you feel like a rockstar and get lean and toned like a fighter.
Boxing Classes
Cardio Fitness Kickboxing
Cardio Fitness Kickboxing
You can learn to box here from the ground up in our fundamentals classes or train to compete at the highest amateur and professional levels. We provide a positive environment surrounded by athletes all working together to become better. So whether you’re a beginner or a pro, we have outstanding boxing training for you.
Muay Thai Classes
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Classes
Muay Thai Classes
The benefits of Muay Thai training are innumerable. Imagine having the ability to defend yourself or your loved ones in almost any situation you can think of. What kind of self-confidence do you think you would have with that kind of skill? Imagine being able to reach a level of physical fitness you never thought possible, with above average strength, leanness, flexibility, and endurance. Now imagine being able to easily maintain that level of fitness month after month, year after year. Schedule your free class
MMA Training 8+
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Classes
Muay Thai Classes
We offer the most comprehensive Adult Mixed Martial Arts program for beginners to the most advanced. Our Mixed Martial Arts classes that are structured and provide a safe learning opportunity for students with no previous experience. Learn the core techniques of Kickboxing, Krav Maga, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Taekwondo , Combat Hapkido Wing Chun and Muay Thai in a fun and cooperative environment.
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Classes
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Classes
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Classes
Our classes are educational and designed to make learning self-defense, effective and exciting. By nurturing your understanding and abilities, a mindset of empowerment and confidence emerges. Our curriculum is designed to accommodate your physical abilities as we train in the roots and core teachings of BJJ, with an emphasis on concepts of movement where leverage neutralizes an aggressor’s power. We simulate realistic self-defense situations and provide you with the set of skills to protect yourself. We’ll guide you the entire way and set you on a course for success!
DWCMAP in the Hood County News
DWCMAP Dojo brings 31 world titles home to Granbury
Posted Thursday, February 6, 2025 4:26 pm
By JAXON HANSARD, Staff Writer
Danny Williams Combat Martial Arts Program’s Team “Lightning” hit a successful stride with its 13-person roster representing the Texas Karate Organization in a world championship tournament.
Team Lightning went to the World Karate League World Grand Finals Jan 4 in Galveston at the San Luis Convention Center. The WKL invites teams and competitors to the World Grand Finals by a seeding system where contestants earn a higher seed based off their record in their division in a region. Players are not limited to a region and can attend outside their region to get a better seed at the World Grand Finals.
“To be on this team, they’re among the elite in Texas. So they’ve been winning all year but to get to the end and do as good as we did at the state finals and win the state championship, then go to the worlds and blow it away, we’re very proud.” Danny Williams said.
TKO has 21 tournaments all over the state where hundreds of competitors come to test themselves or perform in three categories: sparring, weapons and forms.
Williams’ Combat Martial Arts Program, located at 804 W. Pearl St. in Granbury, primarily offers regular martial arts classes, self-defense classes, taekwondo, “Bully Proof,” stranger awareness for all ages. Monday through Thursday with classes from 4:15 to 8:30 p.m. while Fridays are saved for private training sessions from 4:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Williams is a seventh-degree black belt who has been involved with martial arts training since 1974. The former United States Marine’s Granbury location is the fourth school he has opened with the first three in Marlin, Odessa, and Georgetown. There was a stint from 1999-2008 when he left martial arts to pursue full time ministry as a pastor.
In July 2023 he was inducted into the United States Martial Arts Hall of Fame.
“We’re a world champion school — 31 in one year? That’s unheard of. I’ve been doing this for 50 years,” Danny Williams said.
The program has been in Granbury since 2021 and this is its first group of world champions.
“For them to put in the work that is necessary to be at such a high level of competition, we’re very proud” Glenda Williams, wife of Danny Williams and instructor of women’s self-defense class, said.
The oldest and youngest world champions on Team Lightning are actually a father/son duo of Jase, age 8, and Cody Reed, age 39. Cody Reed takes his family to Danny’s Dojo as a way for them to learn important lessons of self-defense, control and social interactions but the program provides an activity the whole household can participate in.
Instead of splitting the parents’ time between five different age ranges with football, soccer, baseball and school activities, they opted for a martial arts program that has trained them into world champions.
“I told them even if they wanted to, they can’t quit until they get black belts, so we’re not going to stop until we’re a black belt family.” Cody Reed said.
The belts have three stages with the beginner stage having white, yellow and orange. The intermediate stage includes green, purple and blue, and finally the advanced stage has brown, red and then famously the black belt to show mastery
Cody Reed started training in the dojo after a funny interaction with his oldest child Harper who was involved with the program.
“She said ‘Dad, its not that easy. Why don’t you try it?’ And I said ‘OK’ and I did it and then I realized I couldn’t do it” Cody Reed said.
Jase Reed has been in the Danny Williams Martial Arts Program since he was 5 and as his world title proclaims, he has improved and learned a lot from this dojo in a very competitive age range. The little fighter did not have many words to say but did say he likes fighting “because it’s fun” and when asked how the world champion tournament was he said “It was good”
The Dojo has been a great opportunity for kids and families in the Granbury area to have an after-school activity but also build children’s confidence. There have been children who attended the Danny Williams Martial Arts Program because of recent incidents and attitudes at school. From the teachings of the program, kids have changed their attitudes because of the confidence it instilled in them.
“You’ll figure out that if a kid’s got confidence then they’re not going to fight,” Cody Reed said.
State and World Title winners
Lexi Evans • WKL Title 2: Creative Weapons and Point Sparring • Total 2
Leighton Evans • WKL Title 1: Point Sparring • Total 1
Ty Evan’s • TKO State Title 2: BJJ GI and Sport MMA No GI • WKL Titles 2: BJJ GI and Sport MMA No GI • Total 4
Mayliah Miller • TKO 1: Creative Forms • New Mexico State 2 Creative Weapons and Creative Weapons • New Mexico Grands 1 Creative Forms • WKL Titles 2: Creative Weapons and Creative Forms • Total 6
Blaze Miller • New Mexico 3: Stick Combat, Creative Forms, Point Sparring, • WKL 2: Tag Sparring and Forms • Total 5
Jacqueline Miller • TKO 1: Stick Fighting
Sterling Bates • TKO 1: Tag Sparring • Total 1
Gabby Briceno • TKO 3: Creative Weapons, Creative, Forms, Point Sparring • WKL 3: Creative Weapons, Creative Forms, Point Sparring • Total 6
Serenity Clark • TKO 2: Creative Forms and Point Sparring • New Mexico 3: Creative Weapons, Creative Forms, Point Sparring • WKL 3: Creative Weapons, Creative Forms, Point Sparring • Total 8
Kanden Snell • TKO 1: Creative Forms • Total 1
Cody Reed • TKO 1: Point Sparring • WKL 1: Point Sparring • Total 2
Jase Reed • TKO 2: Tag Sparring and Point Sparring • WKL 1: Point Sparring • Total 3
Abram Reed • TKO 1: Tag Sparring • Total 1
Emmett Reed • TKO 1: Tag Sparring • Total 1
Curtis Harris • TKO 2: Creative Weapons and Creative Forms • WKL 3: Creative Weapons, Creative Forms, Point Sparring • Total 5
Gracie Peterson • TKO 1: Creative Forms • New Mexico 4: Creative Weapons, Creative Forms, Point Sparring, Continuous Sparring • WKL 4: Creative Weapons, Creative Forms, Tag Sparring, Continuous Sparring • Total 9
Brayden Blincoe • TKO 2: Creative Forms and Point Sparring • WKL 2 Creative Forms and Point Sparring • Total 4
Robin Pollard • TKO 1: Sport MMA • WKL 1: Sport MMA • Total 2
Kaj Green • TKO 1: BJJ GI • Total 1
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HOW OUR SYSTEM WORKS
1. PREEMPTION + SELF-DEFENSE
1. PREEMPTION + SELF-DEFENSE
1. PREEMPTION + SELF-DEFENSE
Teaching students how to be more self-aware for themselves and loved ones to reduce the chances of a violent assault...
This includes techniques and strategies from verbal and physical de-escalation, recognizing cues, creating space, escape, to self-defense parameters when interacting with strangers or threats.
2. STRIKING + FIGHTING
1. PREEMPTION + SELF-DEFENSE
1. PREEMPTION + SELF-DEFENSE
Utilizing parts of the body, such as hands, feet, knees, elbows, and more – striking inflicts damage on an attacker...
Covering the pros and cons of different variations of strikes and how to defend against them allows students to explore fundamental principles of distance, power, endurance, feints, movements, angles, and escapes. This training enhances fitness and mobility by combining interconnected movements with timing and space.
3. CLINCH + TRAPPING
1. PREEMPTION + SELF-DEFENSE
Entanglement with a violent aggressor is highly probable – and we teach the skills needed to survive this violent and close encounter...
Escaping, dominating, or accessing tools in the clinch is a big part of our realistic combatives curriculum. We teach our students the physiological principals of posture, level, energy, and angles to demonstrate their importance and effectiveness.
4. GRAPPLING + SUBMISSION
5. WEAPONS - Defensive + Offensive
Being knocked to the ground can be a vulnerable position to be in, and simply standing-up may not be an option...
Our students will learn how to utilize the best grappling techniques to subdue, attack, and escape real-world situations. We will explore fundamentals and techniques, multiple aggressors, the access of tools, and what to do when your attacker will not quit due to the effects of adrenaline.
5. WEAPONS - Defensive + Offensive
5. WEAPONS - Defensive + Offensive
5. WEAPONS - Defensive + Offensive
Weapons-based fighting exposes our students to an environment where tools become an equalizer...
We will explore close contact, distance, fighting position, posture, pressure, and how that all relates to weapons access or defense. Timing, retention, tactics, and technique are key – because weapons on or around either combatant can be utilized at any time.
6. SURVIVAL + STRENGTH
5. WEAPONS - Defensive + Offensive
5. WEAPONS - Defensive + Offensive
Situational Awareness training empowers people with real skills to be safer and stronger. The skills that our training imparts are both physical and mental....
One of the most important mental skills that people training with us develop is survival in a real life situation. Going home safe is THE GOAL for you and your family. DWCMAP self-defense training is, in essence, situational awareness training coupled with the ability to take action.
