Instructor's Center

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Meet Rika Usami

https://youtu.be/Zf9G4Xhgm8g Rika Usami was born in Japan and she is known worldwide for her excellent kata. During the 2012 World Karate Championship in Paris she...
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...
Tung-Sheng Chang

Tung-Sheng Chang Chinese Wrestling

Tung-sheng Chang was born in 1908, the lunar year of the monkey, in the Hopei province of China. His martial arts training began when...

Anthony Magallanes Jr.

Anthony Magallanes Jr. was born on July 24, 1995 in Fremont, California, which is the same city he resides today. Anthony is a 3rd...
Deanna Bivins

Deanna Bivins Champion Weapons, Kata and Sparring

It is easy to see now, what Lou Casamasa saw then, in a young Deanna Bivins when he and his son Chris, handpicked her...
Paul J Bax and Pat Strong

An Interview With Bruce Lee Historian Paul Bax

Paul Bax has interacted with and interviewed many of Bruce Lee's original students and unearthed a wealth of information, personal and technical. Here he...

Toney Raven Has Passed Away

Hanshi Tony Raven was in the martial arts for more than 63 years. He ranked as a 10th degree: Kaiden Hanshi Judan Daito-Ryu Aiki-Ju-Jutsu ...
Victor and Karl Marx

Karl William Marx Sr Passed Away

Karl William Marx Sr, 76, of Santa Maria, California, passed away to his Lord and Savior, February 13, 2013. Soké Marx was recognized as an...
Ronald Shively

Ronald Shively Chinese Martial Art

Ronald J. Shively is a veteran martial artist with 35+ years experience in the Internal and External Chinese, Filipino, and Okinawan Martial Arts, in...
Duane Ethington

Duane Ethington

Duane Ethington is a 9th Degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do and a 9th in Iss-Hogai, American Jujitsu. He is a member of...

Nangtum Parinya: Lady Boy Muay Thai Champion of Thailand

Spectators Flock to Stadiums to Watch This Female Muay Thai Fighter, Nangtum Parinya, Who Once Was A Man. Among the many superstars in the sport...
Odette Russell

Odette Russell

Odette Russell is a Grand Master (8th Degree Black Belt) under the SWAM Martial Arts Academy. She is a native New Yorker and is...
Chuck Platten

Chuck Platten and Chu Ki Do Kwan

Chuck Platten was placed under the tutorage of Grand Master Tsurouka, the father of Canadian Karate, at the tender age of five years old,...
Mike Hancock, Fusei Kise, Matt Molineux, James Gifford

Matt Molineux Shorin Ryu Karate

Soke Matt Molineux began his martial arts training in Shorin Ryu karate in 1974 under Soke Mike Hancock. In 1975, the dojo joined American Jiu-Jitsu...
Barry Broughton Teaching

Barry Broughton: AKT Combatives

Martial Arts Halls of Fame inductee, Grandmaster Barry Broughton, Ph.D. has applied his extensive training in the martial arts and years of practicing orthopedics...
Mike Lee Kanarek

Mike Lee Kanarek: F.I.G.H.T.

"Real Experience, Real Credentials" Mike Lee Kanarek was born Lee Van Hong during the Vietnam War to an American father and a Vietnamese mother. Because...