Instructor Licensing
The Total Warrior Instructor Program
A licensing program for martial arts school owners who wanted to add the Rick Tew Martial Science curriculum to an existing school. It ran alongside the live-in camps and closed with them.
The program licensed the Total Warrior curriculum to independent school owners, certified them to teach it, and supported them in running it. It is no longer active.
What it covered
- The full Rick Tew Martial Science curriculum — nine areas of focus across five ranking levels
- Instructor training and certification in that curriculum
- Teaching materials and lesson structure for adult and teen classes
- Ongoing contact with other certified instructors
Who it was built for
School owners who taught children well but struggled to retain teenagers and adults — the point at which a student wants realistic training rather than a belt track. The Total Warrior curriculum was designed around that gap: full-contact work, weapons, outdoor training and the mental curriculum, rather than forms and gradings alone.
Current status
Rick Tew is no longer running the instructor program or the camps it grew out of. No applications are being accepted and no new instructors are being certified.
The curriculum itself is documented in the reference section of this site.