Biographies K-O

Instructors biographies K-O are biographies on USAdojo.com for martial artists whose last name begins with K through O.

Toshiro Nagato

Toshiro Nagato: The Gentle Giant

"He is like the shadow of Soke Hatsumi and many see him as the one who will eventually take the helm of Bujinkan" The...
Darren Laur

Darren Laur – Personal Protection Systems

Darren Laur is the head instructor of Personal Protection Systems, and a serving Law Enforcement Professional. Darren has trained extensively in a variety of...

G.K. Lee: Songahm Taekwondo

G.K. Lee was born in 1957 in Daegu City, South Korea. He began training in the martial arts when he was in second grade...

Gerald Okamura: Kung Fu San Soo

Gerald Okamura was born in Hilo, Hawaii in 1940. He began martial arts with the study of Judo in 1953. He has practiced Kendo,...
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...

Thomas Kurz Flexibility Training

Thomas Kurz is the world's foremost expert on flexibility training, the author of Flexibility Express, Stretching Scientifically, Secrets of Stretching, and Science of Sports...
James Lew

James Lew The Man With A Heart

Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Steven Seagal, Jean Claude Van Damme, Mel Gibson, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, The Rock, David Carradine, Chuck Norris, Dennis Quaid,...
David Leung

David Leung Kung Fu

Sifu David Leung was born in Hong Kong and began his studies in the martial arts at the age of nine. He is a...
Javed Khan

Javed Khan Taekwondo

Grandmaster Javed Khan is the founder of The International Progressive Taekwondo Federation or the IPTF and the creator of Khan Do Kwan. He has...

Soon Ho Lee: Songahm Taekwondo

Grand Master Soon Ho Lee took the seat at the head of the country’s largest single system martial arts organization, the American Taekwondo Association...
Dan McCuskey

Dan McCuskey Dillman Karate International

Master Dan McCuskey first became interested in martial arts at the age of 13 when his father (Frank McCuskey, a Navy and collegiate boxer)...
Dr. Thomas Lee

Dr. Thomas Lee Naturopathic Physician

Dr. Thomas Lee is an experienced and innovative naturopathic physician. After fortuitous connections with remarkable physicians and healers, he found that naturopathic medicine combined...
John Olivier

John Olivier: Shorinji Kempo

Grandmaster, 10th dan, John Olivier was born in Toulon in the Southern region France. After relocating to the United States he began his martial...
Shihan Jonathan Kruger

Jonathan Kruger

Jonathan Kruger is the head instructor of the Kodokwan Judo & JuJitsu of Zambia. Jonathan Kruger's family first came to Africa from Berlin Germany...
Jiro Otsuka

Jiro Otsuka Wado-Ryu Karate-Do

Jiro Otsuka was born on February 28, 1934, in Tokyo, Japan. The second son of Grand Master Hironori Otsuka I, he was born the...
Patrick McCarthy

Patrick McCarthy: Koryu Uchinadi

Hanshi, is a 5th generation student of Uchinadi with an impeccable lineage of Okinawan instructors, starting with his teacher Kinjo Hiroshi and his...