Articles and Biographies

Articles and Biographies includes biographies and articles about martial artist instructors from around the world on USAdojo.com.

Kevin Brett Karate

Kevin Brett has thirty years of martial arts training and teaching experience. He and wife Lana Kaye Brett were two of the five co-founders...
Gary Goltz Judo

Gary Goltz: Judo

Sensei Gary Goltz, 8th dan, began studying judo in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania under the famous Korean champion in 1965, Kyu Ha Kim,...
Gary Goltz Judo

Talking Judo with Gary Goltz

Gary Goltz, 54, is founder and sensei of Goltz Judo Club in Claremont, CA. The Upland resident has a 7th Degree Black Belt in...
Sports Martial Arts

Sport Martial Arts Museum – 1946-1999

Aloha fans of American Sport Martial Arts and USAdojo.com readers! In 1946 Master Robert Trias opened the first sport karate studio and history began....
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...
Luis Morales

Always A Student – Luis Morales Interview

As one grows up surrounded by the familiarity of home, one's neighborhood, and the everyday people that cross one’s life, the world appears to be...

Interview With Pangulong Guro Chuck Cadell

On a cool, Midwest March afternoon, I drove from my home to a place I had been familiar with for many years. I was...
Kelly Worden

Kelly Worden Modern Arnis

Datu Kelly Worden, proclaimed by the late Professor Remy Presas as the First American Datu and Senior Blademaster of Modern Arnis. He has over 45...
Masaaki Hatsumi

Masaaki Hatsumi

Masaaki Hatsumi was born as Yoshiaki Hatsumi in the city of Noda, in the region of Chiba, on the December 2, 1931. Subsequently his...

Jason Lau

Wing Chun Kung Fu practitioner Jason Lau is the Grandmaster of the Jiu Wan branch of Wing Chun. He studied Wing Chun under Jiu...
Susan Bender Ninjutsu

Susan Brender’s Foray Into Ninjutsu

By Susan Brender ~ This is a personal account of how Susan Brender, completely inexperienced in the martial arts, undertakes the challenge of learning the...

Christine Bannon-Rodrigues Master Arts Super Star

When Christine Bannon-Rodrigues was a Rhode Island teenager of 13, she never realized that she one-day she would reign supreme as one of the...
James DeMile

James DeMile

In 1959, James DeMile began his martial arts career in Seattle, Washington, under the direction of the legendary Bruce Lee. As one of Bruce's...
Tony Vohra

Tony Vohra and Taekwondo

Grandmaster Tony Vohra was born in India in 1958, coming to England in 1962, and settling in Nottingham which is still his home base. As...
Amir Solsky

Amir Solsky Capoeira

Amir Solsky,  (Mestre Parafina) is the founder of Fundamentals of Movement and of Capoeira Los Angeles. Originally from Israel, Amir has been studying the...
Jose Fraguas

Jose Fraguas

Born and raised in Madrid, Spain, Jose Fraguas began his martial arts studies with judo, in grade school, at age 9. From there he...