Bob Dorris founded the company S.M.A.R.T. Athletics, Inc. He had been constantly involved with martial arts for 40 years. He has operated martial arts schools, taught hundreds of students and logged many, many hours in training, studying and analyzing martial arts. Martial arts had been his life.

He coined the name Combative Arts Concepts to describe his art, since it is a culmination of concepts, tactics and philosophies he had experienced over the years and really falls outside the scope of any one particular style.