Speculative concept — an unsolicited design study for Seminar Stack. Nothing is live, nothing is for sale, no affiliation. The ledger has the fine print ↓
Seminar Stack · Manheim, Pennsylvania
See you on the mats.
The ultimate fusion of health, wellness, fitness and martial arts for first responders and the community.
Every event is a fundraiser — 20% to the beneficiaries →
Training with purpose
We train.
We build.
We give back.
The mission, in their words: build stronger, safer communities through skill-sharing, connecting first responders with resources for continued training, promoting health and wellness, and creating space for purpose-driven growth.
of proceeds supports the chosen beneficiaries — at every event. “At its core, every Seminar Stack event is a fundraiser with a mission.”
Short Stack.
Saturday, November 21, 2026 · Venue TBD
Smaller by design. One day of the good stuff at neighborhood scale — grab your gi, your gym gear, or just your good vibes.
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The flagship
Stacked-XPO.
Most recent: August 8, 2026 · Spooky Nook Sports, 75 Champ Blvd, Manheim PA
“One day. A ridiculous amount going on.”
A one-day combat, fitness, training and resilience festival. It opens with a community ruck at 8 AM and ends with a fight night. Everything between is à la carte — “you build your own schedule… train, learn, and explore exactly what interests you most.”
Anatomy of the day — by venue zone
Community ruck — the day opens on foot
Grappling & wrestling brackets
Sanctioned by USA Grappling
Sport karate
Sanctioned by NASKA
Esports bracket
Run by Valhallan
À la carte seminar rooms — build your own schedule
2026 lineup below
Fight night closes the day
Run with Subversiv × Taparia Extreme Jiu Jitsu
Seminars & instructors
The 2026 lineup.
Seminars are the core of every Seminar Stack event — pick the rooms that interest you, skip the rest.
Cathryn Discianni
Every event is a fundraiser — 20% to the beneficiaries
AJ Discianni
“Don’t ask me what we’re learning today. Everyday we’re learning to get better and to train purposefully.”
2026 XPO sessionNoGi: HQ & Passing · 9:00AM–11:00AM
Every event is a fundraiser — 20% to the beneficiaries
Matt Turnbull
“Being the hardest worker in the room, embracing the bad days and going harder on the good days will get you further than talent ever could.”
2026 XPO sessionMuay Thai: Knee & Elbow Fighting · 3:00PM–5:00PM
Every event is a fundraiser — 20% to the beneficiaries
Bridging the training gap
New ideaTapeStack.
Seminar Stack already films complete seminars with world-class instructors — then parks them on a public channel where a few dozen people find them. TapeStack puts the library to work: every seminar streamed live, kept as a replay, with the beneficiary share riding along on the receipt.
Named the way they name everything — RuckStack, FightStack, Stack The Weight… TapeStack. Film study is “tape” anywhere people fight.
Next live seminar
Streaming now from the mats
Streamed from Short Stack, November 21 — then it lives here as a replay.
Live from Short Stack — replay lands here after.
Already filmed, already public — the replay shelf
How a purchase reads
IllustrativeConcept pricing. No real checkout exists, nothing here is for sale, and per-item splits are an illustration — see the ledger.
Heroes on the mat
Military & first responders only — on the mat, and online
Heroes On The Mat is military and first responders only — that's the point of it. If its sessions go online, the door policy has to come along.
This is how the open door would read for a verified military or first-responder account: live sessions and replays unlocked, same 20% to the beneficiaries. Still a preview state, not a shipped gate.
Straight talk: this gate only means something once access is bound to a verified person. Today, ticket buyers check out as guests — no accounts. Unsolved problem, not a shipped feature.
The hub
Everyone plugs in.
Seminar Stack is built as a hub: promotions, sanctioning bodies, gyms and nonprofits plug into its events instead of competing with them. Their own shorthand — “the Arnold Sports Festival, backwards.”
Sanctioning bodies
Partner promotions
Presenting & supporting sponsors
Activation & donation sponsors
Programs & communities
Vendors
…and six nonprofit beneficiaries, who get their own section. Where the 20% goes ↓
Impact
Where the 20% goes.
Every event names its beneficiaries up front, and 20% of proceeds goes to them. The 2026 roster, from their own pages:
Adopt-A-Cop BJJ
2026 beneficiary
Strides for Service
2026 beneficiary
WeDefy
2026 beneficiary
Academy Safe
2026 beneficiary
Veteran Bushido Brotherhood
2026 beneficiary
Family of Cpl. Timothy O'Connor, Jr.
2026 beneficiary
No donation totals or tickers here — real numbers belong to real events. Ledger.
Back of house · for the Seminar Stack teamStaff only
For the team,
not the athletes.
Everything above is the front door. This is the folding table behind it — the four unglamorous fixes that come before any big idea, all ordinary event tooling, all buildable now.
Self-serve comp tickets
Comp a sponsor, a coach, a volunteer — yourselves, in seconds. No support ticket, no workaround. The loudest single frustration with the current setup.
Deliverable todayCapacity & waitlists
Every seminar gets a hard cap. When a room fills, the waitlist opens itself and keeps the order for you.
Deliverable todayDoor check-in & reporting
One screen at the door, live counts behind it. Retires the Squarespace → Excel → will-call relay.
Deliverable todayWaivers at registration
Liability waivers captured when people register — stored and searchable, not on a clipboard at 7:40 AM.
Deliverable todayFine print, as promisedStaff only
The ledger.
Three lists: what’s real, what’s buildable now, and what we build together. If it isn’t on the first two, treat it as a sketch.
Real, and theirs
Photography, logo and athlete cards — loaded from Seminar Stack's own site
Instructor roster and credentials
Event dates, venues and the shape of the day
Seminar footage — posters from their public YouTube channel
The mission, the 20% pledge, and every quoted line
Partner, sponsor and beneficiary rosters
The published 2026 schedule poster
Genuinely deliverable today
Self-serve comp tickets
Per-seminar capacity caps and waitlists
Door check-in and reporting
Liability waiver capture at registration
Waiting on you, not us
All prices and every checkout flow
Per-item beneficiary splits and any donation totals
Live registration or attendance counts
Identity-verified gating for restricted seminars
Instructor or affiliate revenue splits
Cross-platform bundles with partner promotions
Specced and scoped — this list starts the day we sit down with your real numbers, accounts and rosters.
On identity verification, plainly
A “first responders only” gate online only means something once access is bound to a verified person. Right now, ticket buyers check out as guests with no accounts. Until that changes, restricted access is a design intention — not a shipped feature.
And no commercial terms appear anywhere on this page — no fees, rates or pricing for any service behind it. None exist.