Biographies P-T

Instructors biographies P-T are are biographies on USAdojo.com for martial artists whose last name begins with P through T.

Alexander Retuinskih

Alexander Retuinskih

" . . . The life that belongs to each of us is our own and each of us defends it in our own...

Ronda Rousey

Ronda Rousey is a fourth degree Black Belt in Judo who was, at the age of seventeen, the youngest competitor in judo at the...
Alessio Sakara

Alessio Sakara

Alessio Sakara was born on September 2, 1981 in Rome, Italy. His nick name  is "Legionarivs". He is an Italian mixed martial arts fighter,...
Danny Steele

Danny Steele Muay Thai Fighter

Danny Steele was born on April 6, 1969 in Saigon, Vietnam. At age 5 Danny moved to Honolulu, Hawaii and began training with Bao...

Sin Kwang Thé

Grandmaster Sin Kwang Thé the son of Chinese parents, Sin Thé was born in Bandung, Indonesia. He began his martial arts training under a...

Butch Togisala: Shorin Ryu

Sensei Lelagi Togisala known as Butch Togisala is a world renown martial artist. His martial arts career began in 1979 when he was eight...
Gordon Richiusa

Gordon Richiusa – Renaissance Man

USAdojo: Gordan, you are an incredible man. You just released your second novel, The Panda Chronicles. You received your second-consecutive Book of the Year...
Michael-Quist MAD Wing Chun

Michael Quist Wing Chun

Michael Quist received the rank of 4th Degree (black/red) sash under Sifu Alton Miller of Canton Wing Chun Kung Fu. Michael Quist has 15 years of combined...
Bridgett Riley Boxer

Bridgett Riley Boxer

Bridgett Riley, 5'4", was born on May 13, 1973 in Oakville, Missouri, 30 miles south of St. Louis. The 118-lb kickboxer, former Class II...

Robert Temple: Police Activities League

A writer once wrote, “If there was a television awards program for martial artists, with the top award going to the Grand Master who...
Kyoshi Andy Rodda

Andy Rodda

Kyoshi Andy Rodda began training in DoShinKan Karate in 1978  in Yakima, Washington under the direction of Shihan Morris Mack. He came to Pendleton, Oregon...
Duke Tirschel

Duke Tirschel: Tang Soo Do

Richard Tirschel, known as Duke Tirschel by his friends, is a multi-talented and unique individual among men. He has been an undefeated boxer and...
Henry Small Kendo Instructor

Standing Tall: Henry Smalls Story

Henry Smalls story is a story about a Kendo instructor in Hawaii.  Like many instructors he has honed his craft through years of study...
Cambodia's Champion Fighters

Cambodia’s Champion Fighters

Eh Phou Thoung and Oed Phuo Thoung are Cambodia’s champion fighters but they live in squalor and obscurity. In the world of professional sports, politicians...
Lou Salseda

Lou Salseda Japanese and Brazilian Jui Jitsu

Lou Salseda grew up in the northeast area of Los Angeles. At the age of fourteen, Lou made the decision that one day he...
Ed Parker, Jr.

Ed Parker, Jr.

Edmund Kealoha Parker, Junior, otherwise known as Ed Parker, Jr., began his career at nineteen when a graphite sketch of his father (Ed Parker...