Biographies and Eulogies

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

Jerry Fisher

Jerry Fisher and His P.U.M.A. System

Grand Master and System founder, Jerry Fisher, studied American boxing for eleven years, competing in over 100 matches. In the middle 1950's he began...
Mike Casto

Mike Casto Pencak Silat

Mike Casto began his martial arts journey at age 7 in 1978* when he started training in Tae Kwon Do. He was a 7th...
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...
Frederick Peterson Jr. Birthday

Martial Artist Frederick Peterson Jr. Celebrates 89th Year

Still young as ever, Inland Empire local Frederick Peterson Jr. or better known as Soke Grandmaster Frederick "Big Cat" Douglas Peterson Jr., celebrated his...
Mark Lord

Tai Chi Ch’aun with Mark Lord

I've found over the years that it’s hard to learn new things without at first admitting ignorance and preconceptions. Well, let me show you...
Pamela Cohen Martial Arts Instructor

Pamela Cohen Martial Arts Instructor

Pamela Cohen started saving money at 13 years old to open her own martial arts school. Now, she owns three. Pamela Cohen’s dream was never...
Kathi Tasetano

Kathi Tasetano World Karate Union

Kathi Tasetano June 16, 1950 - March 5, 2014 Martial arts own Kathi Tasetano, who founded the World Karate Union Hall of Fame in 1996...
Duke Tirschel

Duke Tirschel Interview

Besides being the Official Photographer for World Black Belt he has been the photographer to martial artists in nearly every state in the union...

Yigal Arbiv of Netanya

If there’s anyplace in the Middle East that resembles America’s 19th century Wild West, it has to be Netanya, Israel. This notorious city north...
Anita Wilson

Anita Wilson Aikido

I was born in West London in 1963, my father was very involved in the martial arts and a dan grade in Karate he...
Karyn Turner

Karyn Turner

Karyn Turner was born in 1946 in Lyons, Kansas. She was named as the “most outstanding woman in the history of martial arts” by...
Coach Rodney King

Rodney King Coach

Rodney King is a leading expert in functional martial arts and performance coaching. He is the CEO of Crazy Monkey Defense in South Africa....
Ilan Gattegno

Ilan Gattegno Ninjutsu

Ilan Gattegno joined Bujinkan in November 1974, when he became the first student of Doron Navon, who came back from Japan. In 1975 he hosted...
Doron Navon and Masaaki Hatsumi

Doron Navon’s Godan Test: The Test of Truth

A narrow path leads from the main road to the house of Tanemura Shihan, one of the master teachers of the ancient art of...
Doron Navon and Masaaki Hatsumi

Doron Navon – Six Years With Hatsumi Sensei

Like a true ninja, he remains a complex and intriguing enigma to most of the world, even to Doron Navon and other who know him...
Masaaki Hatsumi

Masaaki Hatsumi: Master of Masters

(I know there are many errors contained here. I have not corrected them, instead I posted the article as it was published . ....