Instructor's Center

USAdojo.com’s Instructor’s Center shares information for school owners and instructors and articles and biographies about martial artists from around the world.

Alain Burrese Why Hapkido

Alain Burrese: Hapkido, Safety and Active Shooter Response

Alain Burrese is an author, speaker, personal security expert, safety and self-defense instructor. He has combined his years of martial art and self-defense training,...
Donald Miskel

Modernizing a Traditional System So Its Combat Effective

Because I like being diplomatic in my old age I’m going to try to say what I have to say without causing too much...
Michael Giron

Michael Giron: Bahala Na

Master Michael Giron, is the President and Founder of the "Bahala Na" Original Giron Escrima Federation. He was born on December 31, 1949, the...

Raymond Floro: Floro Fighting Systems (FFS)

Raymond Floro developed Floro Fighting Systems (FFS)  -  a realistic, simplified method of dealing with armed and unarmed confrontations and specialising in the awareness...

Varouj Bejanian

Master Varouj Bejanian is a graduate of UCLA (Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering). Master Varouj worked as a Design Engineer with various companies...
David Stainko

David Stainko

David Stainko, the Master of Kinesiology and senior organizer of kinesiological recreation was born in Rijeka, Croatia in 1962. There he attended the primary...

Shelton Moreland: Hapkido

Grandmaster Shelton Moreland’s Dojang was founded in 1973 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. He is a Ninth degree Black Belt with over 50 years...

Wil Widmeyer: Kongshin Hapkido

KJN Wil Widmeyer was born and raised in Indiana in the United States. He began training in the martial arts when he was sixteen...

Jeremy “Lil Spider” Murphy

Jeremy “Lil Spider” Murphy is a professional Mixed Martial Artist based in Union City, California. Standing at five feet six inches tall, Murphy fights...
Linda Davis-Kyle

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...
Melinda Garcia

Melinda Garcia

Melinda Garcia is a writer based in Cerritos, California. First professionally published in 1989, Melinda worked as a Staff Writer and Columnist for Screamer...
Bob Chaney

Bob Chaney Tae Kwon Do and Muay Thai

Tae Kwon Do Rank and Background Bob Chaney trained in the Martial Arts for over 43 years. He was promoted, with Chuck Norris and Bob...

Bradley Lord: Hapkido

Senior Master Instructor Bradley Lord began his martial arts training in 1986. He is currently a 7th Degree Black Belt in Hapkido, a 3rd...
Martial Arts Belts

The History of the Belt Grading and Ranking in Martial Arts

Grading and ranking in martial arts varies from skill to skill and from style to style although for all of them it defines 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...

Amanda Nunes

Amanda Nunes was born on May 30, 1988. She is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist competeing in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). She...