Jessie Bowen Aiki-Shinkai Karate
Karate International of Durham was founded in 1980 by Hanshi Jessie Bowen as a Karate International franchise school under the Karate International brand.
Hanshi Jessie...
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...
Howard Upton: Yoshukai Karate-do
Howard Upton is a seventh degree Black Belt in Yoshukai Karate-do. He also holds a first degree Black Belt in Okinawan Goju Ryu, and...
Katsuoh Yamamoto – Yoshukai Karate
Katsuoh Yamamoto was a 10th degree Black Belt and the Founder of Yoshukai Karate. He was born on July 10, 1938 and at 12...
Amante P. Marinas: Pananandata
Amante P. Marinas is a chemical engineer and teaches Pananandata© his family’s weapons fighting system. He has Black Belts in shorin ryu and in...
David Brown: Si Feng Wu
David Brown is a veteran of the United States Air Force (7.5 years AD, Honorably Discharged) and a retired law enforcement officer with 25...
Hari Osias Banaag and The King’s Dream
By Neslyn P. Viernes - The title of Hari was conferred upon Osias Banaag at a young age by Francisco Torres, one of the...
Paul Ingram – Pekiti-Tirsia Kali
Guro Paul Ingram was introduced to FMA training at 15 through a friend's family and trained in a variety of Filipino styles. He now...
Christopher M. Clarke
Christopher M. Clarke, Ph.D. was born in New York in 1949 and grew up in New Jersey. He began training in karate in 1965,...
The Real Helms From Bloodsport, Jim McCunn, Dies
Sheldon Lettich has this to say about this eulogy below written by Frank Dux for Jim McCunn.
According to Sheldon Lettich, "Here Frank “eulogizing” a...
Ron Chapel SubLevel Tactical Kenpo™
In 1959 Ron Chapél began his study of Five Animal Gung Fu, along with Douglas Wong, under Grandmaster Ark Yuey Wong. In 1963, Ron...
Professor Jigoro Kano
JUDO & EDUCATION
Over a century ago, Japanese jujutsu men from various ryu or schools, often competed against one another and sometimes fought boxers and...
Kwang-Sik Myung
Kwang-Sik Myung was born in North Korea but lived in Seoul for most of his early life. In 1948, at the age of 7,...
Fernando Meza Cervera
Noviembre 1972: Inicio practicas de Karate en el Instituto Nacional de la Juventud Mexicana de Guadalajara.
Marzo 1975: Soy admitido en la escuela Choy Lay...
Denise Ramsey Nippon Kempo Butokukan Karate
Denise Ramsey was born in Manhattan, Kansas on a date that will remain undisclosed. Before she reached the age of one year, her family...
Paul Dye: American Kenpo
Mr. Paul Dye began his Kenpo career in the Fall of 1972 at the Dave Hebler's Kenpo Karate Studio in Glendora, California, which is...