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

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

I could not recommend Ryan highly enough, such has been his impact on me through my Arakan journey to date. Ryan genuinely cares for his students learning and for them as people - meeting them where they are at on their personal journey. Along with care, Ryan’s passion for Arakan is infectious, and inspires commitment dedication and pushing past your barriers to build personal strength, confidence and focus. As a martial arts practitioner and instructor Ryan I have found to be able to balance fun and joviality, with focus and intensity when needed through the learning journey which for me, having trained in other arts over the years, is a real point of difference and has enhanced my training experience. Ryan is detailed, thorough and systematic in his approach to teaching the great art of Arakan. Further, Ryan has demonstrated his inclusiveness, adaptability and care when he taught my Autistic son for over two years, who now takes pride in being able to sling one hell of a back fist and feels more secure in himself and in the world due to his Arakan growth journey with Ryan.
If you are looking for the self development offered by a martial arts journey or looking to learn Arakan specially, I could not recommend Ryan’s tuition highly enough.

Marc Gregory

Ryan Musgrave is an amazing instructor. His knowledge, energy, positivity and patience provide a very safe and supportive environment to build up your skills in martial arts, along with fitness and self confidence. I highly recommend Ryan and Arakan Martial Art.

Nicole Leah

Ryan Musgrave is an amazing instructor. His passion, skill set and attention to detail are to be commended. I cannot speak highly of enough of him. I came to Arakan nine days after my Spike/Attack & Rape. I knew I had to learn how to defend myself against any future predator. I was hooked after my first complimentary lesson and have never looked back. Ryan is an extremely patient and understanding instructor. His lessons are always constructive and I’m so happy to be his student. Age is no barrier @60 I feel I have so much to learn.
Thank you Ryan!

Mia Franks

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