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Andrej Hendryk Diamanstein

Andrej Hendryk Diamanstein Iaido

Sensei Andrej Hendryk Diamantstein Kiochi Nanadan Z.N.I.R & Kokusai Renmei * At the age of twelve, shortly after he had begun European fencing, Andrej Hendryk...
Stephen Taylor

Stephen Taylor

Born and raised in the Kansas City area, Stephen Taylor grew up playing baseball, basketball, football, golf, soccer, and tennis. But after years of...
Eric Lee King of Kata

Eric Lee The King of Kata

"Kata" is the encyclopedia of the martial arts systems. If you are doing the original, compulsory form, then you are training in the original...

Richard Plowden

Master Richard Plowden is a 6th degree Black Belt and a five-time martial arts world champion. He has over 30 years experience in the...

Saekson Janjira: Muay Thai and Kickboxing

Saekson Janjira was born in Thailand and started his career at the age of eight. His career expanded almost two decades. In Thailand his...
Dan Henderson

Dan Henderson

Dan Henderson was born on August 24, 1970 in Downey, California and he grew up in Apple Valley, California. He is an American former...
Armando Sainz

Armando Sainz – Chen Style Tai Chi Chuan

Sifu Armando Sainz has been involved in martial arts since 1979. His school is highly recognized in the industry as being one of the...
Bill Holman

Bill Holman: Bushido Kempo

Shihan Bill Holman has been training in martial arts since 1971. During the following decades, Mr. Holman has earned the titles Master, Renshi, and...
Martial Arts Titles and Rank

Master of the Universe: Ranks in Martial Arts

By Trevor Streets ~ It is an unfortunate aspect in the modern approach to martial systems that we seem to be obsessed with titles and...

Marcus Bossett

Marcus Bossett is a 5th Degree Black Belt and holds the Renshi Instructor's title with the International Shorin Ryu Karate Kobudo Association. He is...
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Ted Lai Lai Chung Ch’uan Fa

The late Master Ted Lai was the founder of the Chinese Physical Culture Association of Fullerton, a not-for-profit martial arts organization based in Southern...
Creating American Freestyle Karate - interview with Professor Dan Anderson

Dan Anderson – Anderson Martial Arts Systems

Dan Anderson is the director and chief instructor of Dan Anderson Karate and has a 7th Degree Black Belt in Karate, a 6th Degree...
Tony Massengill Wing Chun Kung Fu

A Martial Arts Master, Tony Massengill

By Jennifer Phillips-Holden | Special to the Daily Press ~ Tony Massengill's parents enrolled him in his first martial arts class at the age...

Seigo Okamoto – Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu Roppokai

Sensei Seigo Okamoto was the leading student of Kodo Horikawa of Kitami, Hokkaido of the Kodokai. He was born in 1925 in Yubari City, Hokkaido,...
Bill Logan: Kenpo

Bill Logan: Kenpo

Bill Logan has been training for 37 years in martial arts and is a 7th Dan in Kenpo, a 7th Dan in Kajukenbo, a...
Akira Kubo Kyumeikan Dojo

Akira Kubo and the Practice of Kendo to Instill Values

In 1957, my father Kahei Kubo began Kyumeikan Dojo. In the post-war years, the practice of kendo and other martial arts was forbidden, yet...