Ryan Musgrave

Instructor

Training Since: 2012

Teaching Since: 2021

Technique of Choice: Edge Hand

Weapon of Choice: Dagger

Ryan's Arakan journey began with an immediate obsession. The devastation, precision, and fluidity of the art became a burning passion.

As his journey evolved, Arakan became a means of empowerment, transforming his mindset, demeanour, and physical presence. He’s now more grounded, respectful, and driven by purpose and gratitude.

Ryan takes pride in helping his students empower themselves through effective self-defence. He focuses on building their stability, strength, coordination, and fitness, pushing them to break through perceived barriers and reach new levels of success.


Student Testimonials

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I’ve been training with Ryan Musgrave in Arakan Martial Art and cannot recommend him highly enough. From day one, he has been incredibly patient and understanding, especially as I began learning self-defence after a traumatic experience.
Ryan knows how to strike the perfect balance between pushing you to achieve real results and making the process enjoyable. His training style is motivating, encouraging, and tailored to your pace, but he’ll also challenge you in the best way to bring out your strength and resilience.
On top of his skills as a trainer, Ryan’s sense of humour makes every session lighter and gives you a good laugh along the way—which has been just as valuable for my confidence and wellbeing as the physical training itself.
If you’re looking for an instructor who is professional, supportive, and genuinely invested in your progress, Ryan is the one.

Jaimie Williams

So far, I have had the pleasure of 6 lessons with Ryan. But, it only took 1 to learn how passionate he is about Arakan. Ryan is a benevolent man and made me feel very comfortable every lesson. He is also thorough in his approach to teaching. With a keen eye, he picked small details and made me much better. Every lesson with him was always more enjoyable than the last and I always walked away feeling pumped and ready to take on the day!

Cooper Zulli.


Ryan's excitable personality makes his lessons really enjoyable. His friendly exterior has helped me learn and absorb his teaching a lot easier, along with his well articulated instruction.
There is never a dull moment when Ryan is training you, always entertaining and engaging. Anyone who learns from him will be a lucky student.

Cody Yarnold.


For every Arakan lesson with Ryan, he brought exceptional skill, dedication, enthusiasm and a genuine desire to help me become a more successful and proficient Arakan student!
As usual, I can't wait for my next lesson! If you're thinking of learning, Ryan's your man!

Paul Mulqueen.

 

I am tremendously grateful for the time I spent training with Ryan Musgrave. As an Arakan instructor, he doesn’t just do his job improving my skills, he takes genuine interest to increase my own awareness, from what to improve, in all aspects, from hand positioning to loading and keeping the middle involved, to ‘keeping the engine running’ (after a drill) so to speak.  I have been training for some time and I can say that it’s so good to see the enthusiasm for helping people improve themselves.
I cannot recommend Ryan any more than I can, as it’s not just his Arakan skills that helped me but also his professionalism to ensure I learn the most I can in the one hour I spend training. 

Dean Mayer 

 

My husband and I train with Ryan once a week and I love it! It's the highlight of my week. Ryan is clearly passionate about what he's teaching and is very talented at communicating and instructing in a way that works for each individual. I highly recommend these lessons as a way of staying fit and strong but most importantly, to feel safe and confident; which is exactly what you get from training with Ryan. 

Jacinta Kealley



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After an unfortunate turn of events earlier in the year, all 3 of my kids now have self defence lessons every week. 

Today their Instructor 'pushed a button' and one of my kids started to break down, emotionally.

Their Instructor immediately stopped, walked over and put his arm around them, told them to let it all out and stood with them with his arm around them as they cried. He then used a circuit breaker activity to move on from it and was beautifully gentle for the rest of the lesson. 

Afterward they *child* told me that they felt a bit embarrassed for crying but their Instructor had made them feel safe in doing so and that they believed they would be safe to continue to release the emotional pressure caused earlier this year, with their Instructor. 

What a genuine and strong second male role model for my kids, other than their father. Money can't even buy that kind of authenticity. 

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Perth Family




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