Biographies P-T

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

Scott Sonnon Sambo

Scott Sonnon is one of the world’s best known and most successful coaches in the mixed martial arts discipline of Russian Sambo. After living...
Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Shusko

Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Shusko

Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Shusko is the director of the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP). He is responsible for the martial arts training of...
Robert Pick

Mike Pick – American Kenpo

In 1957 a small, hungry boy, Mike Pick, stumbled up to Ed Parker's old Kenpo Karate Studio doorsteps on Walnut Street in Pasadena, California....
Paulo Tocha and Jean-Claude Van Damme

Paulo Tocha Muaythai

Paulo Tocha was born in Africa. He is of Portuguese and Italian descent and he grew up in Mozambique and Johannesburg, South Africa ....
Bridgett Riley Boxer

Bridgett Riley Boxer

Bridgett Riley, 5'4", was born on May 13, 1973 in Oakville, Missouri, 30 miles south of St. Louis. The 118-lb kickboxer, former Class II...

Frank Trejo Captured Over 400 Championships

Mr. Frank Trejo's first experience with fighting began at the age of 8, when he started boxing with the instruction of his grandfather. His formal...

Richard Ryan Dynamic Combat™ Method

Richard Ryan comes from a long line of gifted athletes. The men in his family were all wrestlers and his grandfather was a champion...

Steve Spry: American Kenpo

The American Kenpo of Grandmaster Steve Spry is a combination of several Hawaiian and Polynesian martial arts that he studied and learned from their...

Steve Scott: Sambo, Judo and Jujitsu

Steve Scott started training in the sport of judo in 1965 and was introduced to sambo in 1976. He holds high rank in both...

Kevin Ross Muay Thai

Kevin Ross is often referred to as the face of American Muay Thai. He got a late start to the sport beginning his training...
Henry Small Kendo Instructor

Standing Tall: Henry Smalls Story

Henry Smalls story is a story about a Kendo instructor in Hawaii.  Like many instructors he has honed his craft through years of study...
Bob Thurman

Bob Thurman World Middleweight Champion

Bob Thurman began boxing at the age of 16 in Kansas City, racking up a record of 86-3 in Golden Gloves competition. In 1977, Bob's...
Cliff "Magic" Thomas

Cliff “Magic” Thomas

Cliff "Magic" Thomas started karate training in 1972 at the age of 14 under Robert Nava in El Paso, Texas. He earned his Black...
Steve Sexton

Steve Sexton Sin Moo Hapkido

Steve Sexton was born 1953, in California. He is a hapkido instructor, bar bouncer and author of a series video tapes on hapkido. He is...

Alvin Prouder

Alvin Prouder former welterweight World Kick Boxing Champion. Early in his life, Alvin Prouder had the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the...
Evan Pantazi

Evan Pantazi

The Kyusho Studies of Evan Pantazi In 1980 Evan Pantazi began his health studies with Chi Gong therapy methods and he received certification as a...