About

A warrior
in the garden.

HexaForce is a warrior-scholar movement — for anyone who is body and mind at once.

What it is

A movement for the whole person.

HexaForce grew out of a simple frustration: we looked for something like this and found almost nothing. So we built it ourselves.

Most content around you wants you either just strong or just smart, and usually neither one properly. We’re interested in the whole person: someone who can fight and think, create and go quiet.

What it stands on

Four things we won’t betray.

Quality is the way.

Everything we make is a small rebellion against cheap noise. Slow and done right beats fast and half-done.

Holistic, not boxed in.

Our roots are in martial arts, in traditions tested over thousands of years, but they aren’t all we’re about. We honor philosophy, the latest science and craft just as much. What we care about is the whole person.

We tell stories.

A fact can be questioned. A good story lasts forever. Not dry textbook rules. Stories you’ll remember and can use in your own life.

Omnia Vincit Amor.

Order born of love for truth, beauty and goodness: to us, the strongest power against chaos.

The framework

Six forces. Three pillars.

It all stands on six forces, on what really decides how a person lives: mind, body, spirit, craft, the people around you, and what you leave behind.

It doesn’t come down to just one. A strong back is useless with an empty head, and the sharpest head gets nowhere without will and the people around you. These six forces combine into three pillars: strength, wisdom and freedom.

You can measure them in the Hexagram, and you’ll see where you stand and where the holes are.

What it offers

What’s certain so far.

Four things. We only write down what’s decided, not what we hope for.

PodcastLong conversations where martial arts meet philosophy, science and craft. The episodes are recorded. We’ll announce the date when we’re sure of it.
AcademyOnline courses co-created with people who have really achieved something in their field. You buy a course once and it stays yours. More will be added over time, each as its own course: follow-ups and entirely new topics.
HexagramMeasures your six forces and shows you where you stand. Free, and it stays free.
The movementPeople who mean it. As a whole, it’s only just taking shape. For now, letters on Substack (in Slovak) hold it together.
Founders

Who stands behind it.

Ján Samuel Lupták

Ján Samuel Lupták

Co-founder · Professional MMA fighter · AI operator

Fights in the cage, builds with AI and turns every fall into a system.

  • Amateur MMA record 11-0-1, undefeated
  • World runner-up in amateur MMA — GAMMA, Jakarta 2024
  • 3× Slovak judo champion, black belt — Dukla Banská Bystrica, national team
  • 24 years in martial arts: karate → judo → MMA
  • Bachelor’s degree (Bc.) in coaching and physical education teaching, level 4 judo coach, level 1 conditioning coach (Slovak coaching qualifications)
Marek Ďuriančík with his son

Ing. Marek Ďuriančík

Co-founder · operations and finance

“A warm, level-headed visionary who isn’t interested in why something can’t be done, only in how to make it possible. He dreams big and works every day to make those dreams real. And he’s a great dad.”

Ján Samuel Lupták
  • Runs operations and finance — without him, things would have stayed ideas
  • A lifelong martial arts enthusiast with a whole-person approach to health
  • He and Ján have known each other since they were three, and he was there from the very first idea for HexaForce

The six forces aren’t a list of exercises.