SMT FITNESS Founder Tim Vazquez
 

Chief Instructor Vazquez has over 20 years of law enforcement experience and is retired as a State Investigator for the State New Jersey. Some of his extensive law enforcement expertise and training includes:

• Certified FBI Defensive Tactics Instructor since 1993.

• Former instructor of (S)pecial (W)eapons (A)nd (T)actical response teams.

• Member on two separate teams holding position of point man.

• Former lead D.T. instructor for an accredited NJ State law enforcement training academy and author of the D.T. lesson plan currently in use.

• Former certified Police Academy Instructor by the NJ Police Training Commission.

• Recipient of N.J. General Assembly Resolutions and U.S. Congressional Recognition for outstanding law enforcement service.

• Over 35 years of martial arts experience. Full time practitioner of a traditional Japanese martial art called Aikido holding the rank of 5th degree. Instructor and administrator of a martial arts training facility for over 16 years.

From his H.S. track and field practice, to the Police Academy, to the S.W.A.T. training, to traditional martial arts… He found that there were common connections to exercise disciplines that can be combined to develop an excellent, caloric reduction fitness program.

SMT FITNESS is a combination of all these years of physical training disciplines to include the use of the BOKKEN, a traditional wooden sword!

SMT Fitness
56 Union Ave.- Rear
Manasquan, NJ.

Aikido Center of Manasquan