In February of 1995, Dan Conden began his journey into the Martial Arts. Upon earning his black belt in May of 1998, Mr. Conden began Instructing at Martial Arts studios throughout Bucks and Montgomery Counties, Philadelphia, and New Jersey. He is currently the Owner and Head Instructor the Northeast Martial Arts Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Some of the people he has had the privilage to study under are Frank Trejo, Steve Stewart, Mark Lawler, Richard "Huk" Planas, George Dillman, and Rick Moneymaker.

Along with furthering his studies in Kenpo, Mr. Conden also studies the art of Kyusho-Jitsu and is working to integrate the two systems as one.

Mission Statment
Martial Arts training is one of the only activities that enables a student to connect a physical skill with and a moral value. Our mission at Northeast Martial Arts is to use karate training as a tool to build life skills in children and adults. Some of those life skill qualities include self confidence, listening, self control, goal setting, self disclipline, concentration, and respect.

PARKER / TREJO LINEAGE
Northeast Martial Arts is proud to announce its acceptance under the instruction of Grandmaster Frank Trejo. NMA looks forward to the new opportunity and hopes to amplify the legacy of the Parker/ Trejo Lineage.

American Kenpo is a style based on the idea of quick disabling moves of each opponent, allowing the practitioner to deal with multiple opponents at once. The style promotes the idea of removing the current opponent from the fight as quickly as possible, so that the next opponent from the group can be dealt with. It is largely a street-fighting style, but it still has ties and is influenced by traditional Chinese martial arts.

American Kenpo, founded by Ed Parker, officially adopted its new name in the early part of the 1980's. Before this, it was usually refered to as Kenpo Karate, Chinese Kenpo or Parker Kenpo. After studying both Chinese styles and styles from his native Hawaii, he eventually decided that a more logical methodology to self-defense was needed. After testing supposedly sound self-defense theories, problems appeared; much of what he had been taught would never be useful in a true fighting situation. He set about creating a flexible new style, based as closely as possible to true fighting encounters. He pulled as much useful information from existing styles as possible, and invented items when needed. Nothing is out of the question with Kenpo, which is part of what makes it unique. Similar to Bruce Lee's jeet kune do, kenpo uses all things that are useful. Circles, lines, grapples, strikes. If it will help you defend yourself against an attacker, it can be a usable part of American Kenpo. Currently, much of what Ed Parker created as the basic American Kenpo (the forms, techniques, etc), are being re-vamped to include pressure point application - the style is always evolving!