Biographies and Eulogies

Biographies and Eulogies of martial artists and martial arts instructors on USAdojo.com. Search by name to find a particular individual.

Thomas Kurz Flexibility Training

Thomas Kurz is the world's foremost expert on flexibility training, the author of Flexibility Express, Stretching Scientifically, Secrets of Stretching, and Science of Sports...
Jun Lee

Jun Lee Tae Kwon-Do

Grandmaster Jun Lee Born into a prominent Tae Kwon-Do family in South Korea, Grandmaster Jun Lee continues the family legacy by dedicating his life...
Bob Burbidge

Bob Burbidge Tang Soo Do

Bob Burbidge was born in East Hartford Connectic in March 1949. He began martial arts training his senior year in high schools. He began...

Keiko Fukuda: A Lifetime of Judo

An elderly woman, Keiko Fukuda, sits in the only chair allowed on the light green carpet of padded mats in the judo club. It's just...

Adam Mizner

Sifu Adam Mizner practices the internal arts of Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan), Nei Gong and meditation. He teaches Yang Style Taijiquan in the tradition...

Ben Largusa Villabrille-Largusa Kali

At the 1964 Ed Parker International Karate Championships held in Long Beach, California, Grandmaster Ben Largusa gave America its first demonstration of the Villabrille-Largusa...
Alexander Retuinskih

Alexander Retuinskih

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

Pete Rabino Shuri-Ryu Karate

Karatedo is the way of life since Pete Rabino set foot on The Way at the age of 13 in Phoenix, Arizona. Though the...

G.K. Lee: Songahm Taekwondo

G.K. Lee was born in 1957 in Daegu City, South Korea. He began training in the martial arts when he was in second grade...
Gregg Wooldridge

Gregg Wooldridge Kang-Chuan-Do

Master Gregg Wooldridge has 40 dedicated years in the Martial Arts. Gregg is a 7th Degree Black Belt and acting Master of Kang-Chuan-Do. Master Gregg Wooldridge...
Rolands Dante

Roland Dantes: Filipino Martial Arts

Grandmaster Roland Dantes was born on June 15, 1940 in the Philippines. Roland Dantes was an actor, a champion bodybuilder and Filipino martial artist who...
Michael Munyon

Michael Munyon: TaeKwon-Do

Master Michael Munyon is the owner of the Munyon’s Korean Martial Arts Academy/TRISENS-USA Security Services LLC located in Oscoda, Michigan and travels throughout the...
Clarence Tai Lee

Clarence Tai Lee

Grandmaster Clarence Tai Lee is a Twentieth Century Legend in the Martial Arts. He had his first boxing lesson around 1940 at the age...

Michael Miller – Taekwondo

Michael Miller is an international martial arts instructor who has been involved with the martial arts for over twenty-five years. He currently holds a...
Vladimir Vasiliev Russian Martial Arts

Vladimir Vasiliev – Systema

Born in Russia, Vladimir Vasiliev received intense training from the top Special Operations Units instructors and is the top student of Mikhail Ryabko. Vladimir's...
Dave Lowry

Dave Lowry Yagyu Shinkage Ryu

Mr. Dave Lowry literally grew up in the Japanese cultural arts. As a boy, he commenced a lifelong study of Yagyu Shinkage Ryu swordsmanship...