Stuart Quan Passed Away
Stuat Quan
October 17, 1962 – January 09, 2006
Stuart Quan owned a long-standing karate studio in North Fresno, teaching students of all ages. He was a national-ranked forms...
Ron Esteller: Kajukenbo
Ron Esteller began his martial arts journey in 1967, beginning with a short stint in the Tae Kwon Do program at Chabot College, but...
Bruce Raney Judo and Jujitsu
Bruce Raney
July 23, 1951- January 27, 2010
Sensei Bruce Raney started his jujitsu training in 1970 in Larkspur California. He started his judo training in...
Otto Johnson Passed Away
Shihan Otto Johnson
May 2, 1959 - November 2, 2004
Shihan Otto Johnson's life was tragically taken in a hit and run accident in San Bernardino,...
Linda Davis-Kyle
Linda Davis-Kyle, an internationally published health and fitness and general interest writer who has earned a Master’s degree in English and a Black Belt...
Larmarr Thornton: Kushinda Ryu
Master Lamarr Thornton is a Martial Arts Master, a Cultural Artist, a producer and director and choreographer, and has been a leader of the...
Jigoro Kano First Japanese Member of International Olympic Committee
Tokyo has been awarded the honor of staging the Summer Olympic Games three times. The first occasion, thanks mostly to the exertions of Jigoro...
Rip Pressure-Point Expert Ed Lake Dies
The martial arts community lost one of its leading exponents of pressure-point fighting, aka kyusho-jitsu, on September 28, 2014, when Ed Lake died of...
Aikido Great Kyoichi Inoue Has Passed Away
Kyoichi Inoue was born on September 10, 1935 in Hokkaido, Japan. He was a 10th dan Yoshinkan aikido master holding the rank of Hanshi....
GM Lawrence Day Black Dragon Fighting Society
Grandmaster Lawrence Day began his Martial Arts journey with the Black Dragon Fighting Society
USMA Hall of Fame member Grandmaster Lawrence Day began his Martial...
Jeffery Elliott Inayan Eskrima
Masirib Guro Jeffery Elliott studied several martial arts including Renbu-kai-Karate, Kenpo Karate, boxing and Inayan Eskrima.
Masirib Guro Elliott studied Renbu-kai Karate at Samurai Karate...
Isa Tenchio
Isa Tenchio was born in the little town of Paysandu, Uruguay on January 7th, 1957. Her family was raised in a modest home with...
Kamal Amani: Taekwon-Do
Algerian Martial Artist Kamal Amani was born on March 24, 1979 in Boghni Tizi-Ouzou Algeria. He began training in Taekwon-Do in 1991. After only...
Elena Tverdokhleb Interview
Elena Tverdokhleb was born in 1973 in Kiev, Ukraine. She is a Kickboxer, boxer, wrestler and extreme fighter and she is a world and...
Hayashi Tomio
Hayashi Tomio or Christopher Goedecke is a career teacher of Okinawan Karate Do, 8th dan and headmaster of the Wind School of Karate Do...
Larry Shealy Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Larry Shealy began studying Gracie Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in 1995 at the Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy in Torrance, California. He is a Black Belt in Tae...