Biographies and Eulogies

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

Steve Sarkissian and Vince Palumbo

Steve Sarkissian

With the exception of training in Karate for one year at the age of nine, Steve Sarkissian began his training in Martial Arts after...
Kim Aldus

Kim Aldus Tai Chi Ch’uan

Kim Aldus began taking Tae Kwon Do in September of 1987.  She began studying under Mr. Kelly O’Keefe. Other Peoria area instructors she has studied under...

Dwayne Rooster Machen

Dwayne Rooster Machen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFSpii8xE_o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i13Lpfbz2lk
Andre Nocquet

Andre Nocquet Aikido

Andre Nocquet was born on July 30, 1914 and he passed away on March 12, 1914. Nocquet was a French aikido teacher holding the...
Vince Palumbo Boxer

Vincent Palumbo Interview

Shiai Magazine: You are Grandmaster Vincent Palumbo of Australia. Grand Master Vincent PALUMBO: Hello, I’m very pleased to meet you, and thank you for this wonderful opportunity to...

Heung Chan: Choy Li Fat

Master Heung Chan, the founder of Choy Li Fut, was born in the Kwang-Tung province of China on July 10, 1806. At the age...

Ken Shamrock

Ken Shamrock was born on February 11, 1964. He is one of the most widely recognized MMA fighters in the world. He is a...
Akbar Fakour Far

Akbar Fakour Far

Akbar Fakour Far is the First Vice President and Tournament Director for NIKKEI Games. He is also part of the Nanka Judo Yudanshakai, the Southern California...
Jimmy Mavenge

Top Karate Instructor Jimmy Mavenge Dies

Zimbabwe’s highest graded karate instructor Jimmy Mavenge Dies at 53 Mavenge, who had reached the Shihan level — Japanese term for master instructor — died on Sunday,...
Benjamin Hazard

Benjamin Hazard

A native of South Lancaster; Massachusetts, Benjamin Hazard was educated largely in Los Angeles area schools in the 1930's where his interest in Japanese...
Jay Darrell Ingleton

Jay Darrell Ingleton

Jay Darrell Ingleton loves to be active and he has been active for most of my life. As a boy he represented his school...
Bill Fischer

Bill Fischer Jujitsu

Professor Bill Fischer began his martial arts training in 1965 in Kodokan judo. In 1966, he helped organize a Shotokan karate club under sensei...
Pat Miletich

Pat Miletich Mixed Martial Artist

Pat Miletich known as "The Croatian Sensation" was born March 9, 1968 in Davenport, Iowa and grew up in Bettendorf, Iowa. He is a...
Imi Okazaki Mullins

Imi Okazaki-Mullins Passed Away

She was proud and direct, she was always straightforward and truthful, and set the bar high for the rest of us. We can feel...
Henry Ellis

An Interview With Henry Ellis of Positive Aikido

Where and when were you born Henry Ellis? I was born in Yorkshire, in May 1936 in a little coal mining village called Brampton, near...
Michael Sullenger

Mike Sullenger American Karate System

Mike  Sullenger is a native Hoosier, having been born in Indianapolis and raised in Vincennes, Indiana. Mike Sullenger is Chief Instructor of the American Karate System, a...