Discovering the Bear Warrior..
Trent Kuma Warner

This is a quote from my Bear Bushido Training Manual. I am often asked via email and in person for details about my warrior training and martial arts background. I have been asked such questions as;

• 'What's up with the Bear Warrior thing?'
• 'What does kuma mean?'
• 'How did your warrior training journey begin?'
• 'What are you're Warrior Martial Art Training Styles?'
• 'What's Warrior-Street-Combat-Self-Defense?'
• 'How did you manage to create this website?'

Kuma is Japanese for Bear.

When I began to use the internet back in the mid to late 1990's. I often used 'kumason", "kuma-san" and sometimes 'kuma' as my profile nickname on many forums, bulletin boards and such. In later years I switched and began using 'bear warrior' as my profile name.

It was much easier than always explaining what kuma meant. To this day, I often use a signature that reads like this;

I wanted to explain this here to give all an understanding into the what, why and what-for of my use of names that include and/or mean "bear".

Since much of the warrior training presented in this website was honed and forged through hard training, intense research and trials of combat. The remaining information presented below is to give you insight into my Warrior Journey thus far..

The Beginning of My Warrior Training Journey

My warrior journey began at birth. I was born on a US Air Force base in Utah. So from the beginning of life, I have had a sense of honor and discipline. My passion for the warrior journey really began to blossom in mid 1970's and along the way I have come in contact with various warrior arts and martial fighting styles.

As a young boy I was an avid comic book reader, as were many young boys of this era, but I also enjoyed camping in the woods, tracking, hunting, scouting and fishing.

I can remember watching a martial arts demo, when I was around 7, at a local college with my Dad. I cannot be absolutely certain of the style, but I was impressed and wanted to learn how to do that!

But my parents struggled to keep our house hold together, so there was no money for this sort of extra activity. Destiny had me covered though. My parents would, from time to time, take in missionaries giving them a place to stay between assignments.

One such missionary was also a practitioner of the martial arts and during his stay he began to train me. I was hooked for life, my passion for warrior martial arts training was birthed.

Over the next years of my life I trained with several different warriors and in many different arts. This was due, in part, to the fact that we moved around. In order to pay for my warrior training, I would often do odd jobs. This not only helped to form my work and training ethic, it also help to birth my entrepreneurial spirit, starting me on the path of a business warrior.

When I was around 11 or 12, we moved to Broken Arrow, OK. I developed a friendship with a native american from a close by community and as a result, I was introduced to many aspects of their warrior culture and warrior traditions. It was an experience that would greatly shape my future warrior journey and passions.

When I was in 9th grade we moved to Naples Florida. My Grandparents had retired there and had several rental properties. During the first part of the 80's, Naples was a small, but growing, coastal community.

The house we lived in had several miles of dense woods directly behind it. During this time in my life, I was able to develop and hone many of my warrior survival skills and embarked on my warrior fitness training journey.

Through out High school and into college, I continued my pursuit of different self defense concepts, warrior arts, martial art styles and warrior fitness training.

It was during the 1980's that I gained my passion for martial arts movies. I loved the saturday afternoon kung fu theater, watching re-runs of the kung-fu series and watching martial arts movies at the cinema or on VHS.

In summary, my warrior journey began at birth and continues on to this day. A few years back I wrote an article explaining my thoughts on 'What it is to be a Warrior'. As my Warrior journey evolves so will the Martial Art Warrior Training Hall. Thank you for sharing this journey with me!

Forming My Warrior-Street-Combat-Self Defense Concepts

Growing up we often moved around and always being the new kid in school wasn't easy. It would often lend the bullies of the school to use you to make a point. So, I quickly had to learn how to defend myself without drawing to much undo attention. Thus my street combat self defense training path began to take shape.

In the late 1980's, I attended Tech School in Tampa, Florida earning an AS Degree in Computer/Electronic Engineering of Technology. I currently work as a certified Service Engineering Technician. This technical background allows me to effectively evaluate current and future self defense technologies.

After college I moved back to Naples Florida and spent several years training with my warrior brother Iron Tiger. We later meet up again in Orlando, Florida, together we forge and formed our warrior street combat self defense concepts and tactics.

This co-creation was birthed from intense warrior street combat training and through the evaluation of effective personal self defense tactics. The interactions of these two warrior brothers laid the foundation for the Warrior Code of the Tiger and the Bear.


The Warrior Street Combat Self Defense Society was created in the spirit of these fused concepts. It's was a warrior society dedicated to the discussion of Street Combat Self Defense tactics, along with the concepts and skills needed for a warrior to survive in today's world.

In 1990's, I experienced and trained in Goshin-Jitsu and was involved in the personal security industry. I draw much of my personal security and self defense training concepts from these experiences, in which I served;

My Warrior Martial Arts Training Background

Becoming a Business Warrior and Starting this Website..

Site Build It offers me the quintessential and fundamental ability to create and forge my own destiny, outside of what the Government's of the world do. It allows me to do it at my pace, Without Prejudice and Without any loss or waiver of rights or privileges.

How does SBI equate with FREEDOM? SBI takes away the constraints of this small business warrior, allowing me to compete on the global market place, to create a place where I can share my passions, while helping others fulfill their warrior training journey.

SBI gives me a feeling of certainty in these otherwise uncertain times, not that I am guaranteed success, just that I am guaranteed the tools, support and guidance to gain success.