Membership in The North American Rumi Maki Association LLC, ( N.A.R.M.A. ) is open to all residents of The United States and members of The Federacion Mexicana de Artes Marciales Mixtas ( FEMEXAM ) under international rules. As the association grows members will be eligible for discounts on merchandise and discounted admission to MMA shows.

Membership Levels 

The North American Rumi Maki Association has three different levels of membership

Sinchi Rank Program 

As AMERICA RUMI MAKI MARTIAL ARTS is a relatively new art, the NORTH AMERICAN RUMI MAKI ASSOCIATION is working to expand its teachings through existing INKA FIGHTING GYM -SCHOOLS KNOWS AS WACHAY WASI. If you are a Master Instructor (1ST DEGREE BLACK BELT or higher) certified through a LAGETIMATE martial arts federation, you are eligible to OWN & OPERATE an INKA FIGHTING GY - YACHAY WASI school.

Terms and Conditions for the Munay-Ki Knighthood

Your country's laws always come in priority to the knighthood's Code. The Code is a suggested behavior, and although mandatory to progress further within the knighthood, your country's laws will always have to pass in front of our Code.

Your participation to the Munay-Ki Knighthood can be modified or stopped anytime if we believe you acted in ways that could be harmful to another member, or if your actions destroy the credibility of the knighthood.

You can cancel your participation to the knighthood anytime you wish, in the " Knights Council " page.

All funds invested in the Munay-Ki knighthood are non-refundable.

                                       Health and Physical Limitations

If you are physically limited or handicapped in any way, please be cautious about your training. We do not wish any of our members to suffer from the physical training we suggest.

Nowadays, it is not an absolute requirement to participate in intense physical training in order to progress within the knighthood. Many other aspects can be worked on: mental, spiritual, and social. As long as you are doing your best, we will consider your physical limitations while evaluating your advancement requests.

The Luminous Knighthood of the Munay-Ki Order will not be help responsible if you go further than what is right for your health. If you have any doubts, please consult a physician about this.

Chief Instructor:

Sinchi. Michael Akens

5th degree Black in

American Rumi Maki Martial Arts

President of the

North American Rumi Maki Association

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Sinchi: Eddie Vuittonet - Artist, Author, Martial Artist

Grand Master of  American Rumi Maki Martial Arts.  Muryo Waza

Eddieberto (Eddie) Vuittonet was born in Harlingen, Texas in March of 1951. He grew up near the township of La Sara, Texas, where he first lived at San Martin Ranch, and later, as a teenager, at Vuittonet Ranch. Eddie started collecting comic books in 1963 and as such, developed a vivid imagination, one in which helped serve as an imputes in fueling his interest in martial arts, drawing and creative writing.

Eddie attended La Sara School and entered high school in 1965, and later graduated from Raymondville High at the age of eighteen in May of 1969. Eddie for all intents and purposes lost all interest in academia while in high school and became distracted by motorcycles and fast cars.

During that time, he dabbled in mediocrity and made a concerted effort to remain “under the radar”. 

Eddie aligned himself with certain elements, within high school, that the principal considered rebels, and anti-establishment vermin. Eddie states that that experience made him a better fighter, cop and judge later on in life. After graduating high school, Eddie attended Pan American College, while also enrolled in the Norman Rockwell’s Famous Artist School – where he had the opportunity and honor to study under the most influential artists of the day, including Norman Rockwell himself.

Although Eddie, now formerly trained in various forms of art, chose to teach mixed martial arts as his profession.  At that time martial arts instruction by a person of non oriental decent was rare and somewhat frowned upon. To further con-volute the matter Eddie was utilizing different techniques from different styles; essentially, mongrelizing martial arts – well at least, according to his detractors. At that time, it was well known that in certain venues, that this type of blatant, disrespect and disregard for “artistic purity” was forbidden and an act punishable by a severe beating in a darkened, back ally to the extent of paralysis and/or even death.  None the less, Eddie continued teaching despite the death threats, physical assaults and public challenges; and did so to the extent that he further fueled the fires by redeveloping the ancient fighting techniques of the Peruvian Inca.  Creating his own Rumi Maki training lineage called Muryo Waza

( The Way of Unlimited Techniques ) Eddies introduction of this lost South American form of Martial Arts was a big slap in the face to the monopolized ideologies within the Asian Martial arts community.

Eddie started teaching Muryo Waza in 1971 in Raymondville and later on in Harlingen, Texas.
In 1974, Eddie accepted a full time staff position with the City of Fresno and moved to California. He taught, as a full-time employee, “Muryo Waza” at the old Chester Rowell Building and later on at the Mosqueda Neighborhood Center. There he remained until funding for his program ended.
In 1977, Eddie moved to Eagle Pass, Texas and later to Piedras Niegras Mexico, as a means to open up two new schools. He also worked as a Deputy Constable in Maverick County, as well as, owned a new business named Maverick Repo and Collection. In the summer of 1978, Eddie returned to Fresno, California, where upon he started teaching again for the City of Fresno…and ultimately married one of his former students – Antoinette Grace.
 

During the interim, Eddie continued to draw, as well as record music, and operate, along with his wife, several businesses – The Comic Syndrome, The Kosmic Kraze, Creative Audio Concepts,  and Creative Entertainments Eddie began to deviate from teaching Martial Arts in the mid 1980’s, and garnered a Texas State Investigator's license, and at the same time was now entering the realm of  computer programming and computer generated graphics. All of his business activities were preempted in 1985 by a brief stint with the United States Border Patrol that entailed him leaving Texas for Georgia for their 190^th session. This afforded him some specialized, para-military training which he could use as a licensed special investigator and bounty hunter. Eddie returned to his Private Investigative and Security services business and again embarked on several other new careers, while at the same time creating and opening other business, such as E and A Productions, Vuittonet Feed & Seed, E & A Lock and Key, Early Bird Home Nursing, ISOG, Inc, Aunt and Uncles, and Los Vecinos Adult Day Care

 Eddie embraced the computer as a means for artistic expression and is still considered one of the pioneers of digital art, illustration and design. Eddie’s art work has been used for decades throughout the Internet, as well as, at within his various enterprises.

In 1995 he created 1016 west.com, at a time when the Internet was in its infancy. The web site remained for fifteen years, until the death of his wife, Antoinette Grace, in June of 2009.

Eddie authored, Vuittonet “The Legacy of Felix Alphonse and Matilda Vuittonet”, which remains the first book written about the inception and integration of the Rio Grande Valley of Texas “French Latino” and into the American culture.
 
He recently (2009) created a fictional military group of animated characters that are essentially perpetuated by whim, stemming from the influences of when he was engrossed in business projects called “The Elite Dreaded Squad” – “Elite D Squad” – for short.

Eddie also served as a Magistrate and Justice of the Peace twice, once in 1990 and again in 2002.
He also worked for the Maverick County Constable Office as a Deputy Constable and also worked as an international bounty hunter

Eddie remains an accomplished mix martial arts teacher, VFX animator, artist and author.

“All my accomplishments, as I see it, are simply a result of the predominant and pervasive thoughts that occupied my mind at the time, and had done so, in one form or the other, since my childhood.
I don’t want to be totally known for what I was, and did; but would enjoy some affirmation, and support in the things I do now, as part of who and what I was and have grown to become".

Most certainly, I would expect my past accomplishments to augment any current assessment of me…for if not…then all of my life would have been for naught. None the less, these things I did, and any inherent acclaim that proceeded thereafter, and today remain, must definitely be kept in perspective, and hopefully perceived as simple manifestations predicated, in part, by “The spirit of the Times.”   

Eddie Vuittonet

           Annual Membership Fees Cost:  $50. per year. 

              Instructors Certification - Cost $75.  School Certification - Cost $50. Student Belt Certification  $25.

 These payments must be sent to us in a Money Order by US Postal Mail. All Diplomas are Custom Made by our Print Shop.