About the Academy

Andrew Dreier is an NCEP Certified Coach with seven years coaching experience as of 2025.  He is SafeSport Trained with a current background check, and is Certified in Curriculum Development.

A former Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel, Coach Dreier served in Strike Planning during Operation Classic Resolve (suppressing an Coup attempt in the Philippines), as Command Legal adviser to Task Force Tarawa during the invasion of Iraq, as Deputy Director of the Marine Corps Embassy Guard School in Quantico, and as a Strategic Policy Planner at US Forces Afghanistan under Gen. David Petraeus.  Just prior to retiring from the military, in his off-duty hours, Lieutenant Colonel Dreier spent two years teaching a course on Strategy and Planning at the University of Texas Law School.

 

Within the military, he trained in the Marine Corps' LINE and MCMAP close combat systems, U.S. Army Combatives, and Department of State Defensive Tactics, and arrest procedures.  A life-long martial artist even outside of his service, Coach Dreier had the opportunity to train off-duty in a wide array of martial arts, under many types of coaches and with many types of training partners around the world.  

Strategy in Motion is a single cohesive program combining the most effective principles  and methods of strategy, movement and fighting, from every system and discipline Coach Dreier has studied, .  The course is not conducted  Boot Camp style.  Instructions are not yelled (unless it's noisy).  Students receive age-appropriate instruction, are given postive feedback on accomplishments and encouraging corrections as needed.  While the program's primary goal is to develop students' skills, a parallel goal is that they have fun and want to train and learn.