Who Better to describe NSI then it’s Grand Master and founder, Datu Kelly S. Worden.

“my system is Natural Spirit Int'l and not National Spirit Int'l..."

Okay - Natural Spirit Int'l embraces all the arts I have studied in the past, beginning with western boxing, catch wrestling, and then into martial arts, so I actually trained in contact fighting before moving into the analytical training of martial arts. I was fortunate to be introduced to progressive structured martial arts via a family of fighting brothers’ lead by Ed Lewis who was under Steve Armstrong . 

We continued to train in boxing so point karate was never a very valuable tool for me, I just got disqualified for excessive contact, some play well, I don't... 

This evolution continued to expose me to a vast array of different arts and sought to absorb what is useful whenever possible. Hard style, soft style, weapons, firearms, tables, chairs, and bad neighborhoods, add parties, bikers, and alcohol and the art stayed real. 
Having been exposed to Eskrima and Combat Arnis prior to training in Modern Arnis I sought to learn more about the Filipino arts. After meeting Professor Presas and becoming fairly versed in Modern Arnis and it's structure, other practitioners from diverse arts began coming to me for weapon training. The names of instructors and styles are definitely numerable and impractical to list right now. It all adds up into a unique system that embraces a multitude of other arts and reasonably high-level instructors all adding Arnis to their base arts. These men and arts make up N.S.I. and we propagate this diversity across the board. 

Due to the constant political struggles of instructors and organizations I opened the door to many instructors seeking to advance their arts, receive advanced training and certification for self-development, again the result is NSI. 

NSI recognizes complete systems and integration of concepts for advancement, not just learning and performing the next Kata for the next rank progression, but possibly adding a completely different strategy or complementary art. This is of course some of the original premises of what the foundation of JKD was based on. I surmised the concept of whatever we train in it must be "Natural" for our body attributes, and it must adapt to the situation and temperament of our "Spirit" in an ever-fluctuating social environments. 
Hope that is pretty simple to follow. 

WMAC is the systemization of all the arts within the Filipino spectrum I have studied or my colleagues have brought into NSI. Separate yes, yet part of the whole. The methodology of sharing or instructing this conglomeration of material uses Modern Arnis as a root to pass on the concepts as a commonality. That would mean we embrace the FMA techniques all the different instructors of NSI/WMAC have been exposed to and umbrella them under the banner of WMAC. 

Not everyone in the system has traveled the arts for 20 years or longer, but I have instructors within NSI that have over 40 years studying and training in a multitude of systems or arts. This offers the opportunity to draw from the "art within your art" concept established by Professor Presas, I balance this out with "connecting the systems" to bring continuity to NSI/WMAC. I hope this at least offers a simplistic logic as to why the distinction in dual organizations. 

Not to confuse the issue any further but arts such as American Sombo, Lucaylucay Kali/JKD, Kajukenbo, Tae Kwon Do, Wado ryu, Kempo, Shotokan, Goju Ryu, Isshinryu, Renegade JKD, and others are considered sub-systems under the NSI banner. Each sub-system is considered a core or foundation art of one of the many instructors who make up NSI/WMAC . Meaning a person within NSI/WMAC can train in and receive separate certification in any of the arts listed as well as defensive tactics, Executive Protection, Defensive Driving, Handcuffing, PPCT, Firearms, and a quite in-depth list of variable skills and arts offered by the members and senior instructors of NSI. Today the system continues to grow at a dynamic rate, new instructors join and bring with them new members, skills, business knowledge, business contacts, medical knowledge, and all the benefits networking has to offer progressive motivated brothers of the art. I would have to say their are few areas of martial arts and business networking NSI does not have available to our members if they choose to seek assistance from one of the other members or instructors. Attending camps and seminars is an open door to unity and brotherhood as we find all arts and people have something to offer working as friends sharing knowledge. 

That pretty much covers it, whatever I did not cover could be easily surmised,, or as it is said,,, "read between the lines".... 

Respectfully, 

Kelly S. Worden

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