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Thomas Cruse is the Senior Training Officer for Progressive Fighting Systems. Tom started his journey into the Martial Arts in 7th grade when his gym coach, Tony Aileo, introduced him to western boxing. Thomas studied and researched many different fighting arts through the years yet even after a tour in the Navy he felt something was missing. Almost three decades ago he met Sifu Paul Vuank at a street fighting seminar. It was then that he realized that Bruce Lee's art of Jeet Kune Do and the weapons training of the Philipino art of Kali was that something. In the late 1980s came the Gracie family and Brazilian Jiu-jitsu. Since then he has devoted his life to the pursuit of Martial Arts Mastery. In 1987 he was asked by Paul Vunak to assist in training the most elite of all the 'special warfare'groups Navy Seal Team 6. Tom and Paul spent the next three years in Virginia doing just that. Thomas has starred in ten videos, appeared in fifty others, written numerous published articles with the latest being in the April 2008 Issue of Black Belt Magazine. Thomas spent years on the Seminar circuit and to date has done over one hundred seminars all over the world. Feel free to contact Tom if you have any questions, or wish to inquire about personal training or scheduling a seminar. 
(click on case to read) | "Mr. Cruse, we would like to express our appreciation for the training that we recieved from you and your organization. The PFS system of hand to hand combat training as taught by you has saved lives in actual combat...Thank you!"
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"Defanging isn't like learning a technique. Martial artists can learn a technique and say they've got it. Learning how to defang the snake is like flying a plane. A pilot talks about how much flight time he has. If I have a student who's been with me for a year, he might have 10 or 15 hours of flight time with defanging the snake. Then I might have a student who's been with me for 25 years--like Tom Cruse, who's probably logged thousands of hours doing that one move. When he spars with any of my other students, he always goes 10 to 1, not because he has a better move but because he has more flight time with that one move." --Paul Vunak (Black Belt Magazine, April 2008) |  |
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