Bob White Has Gone To Be With the Lord
Senior Master Bob White has contributed to the art of Kenpo in particular the fighting arts, for over 50 years as a competitor and as a teacher and coach.
Katsuoh Yamamoto – Yoshukai Karate
Katsuoh Yamamoto was a 10th degree Black Belt and the Founder of Yoshukai Karate. He was born on July 10, 1938 and at 12...
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...
Guillermo Gomez Aikido
Guillermo Gomez is the founder director of United States Aikikai and creator of Martial Fusion. He began his training in martial arts and healing...
Rondy McKee and White Tiger Martial Arts
Rondy McKee was living in Detroit, working in advertising during the day and managing and teaching as the co-owner of a Martial Arts school...
Pedro Carvalho Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
The Beginning
Pedro Carvalho was born on April 18, 1969 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. He began training in the martial arts when he was...
Mark Cheng
Sifu Mark Cheng, L.Ac., Ph.D., is the Head Instructor and Chief Physician for the Chung-Hua Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine & Martial Arts Research....
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...
Dane Harden: Yoshinkan Aikido
Master Dane S. Harden formed his nearly life-long affiliation with the martial arts when he began studying Aikido in 1969 at the age of...
Nei-Chu So
Words of Mas Oyama about Nei-Chu So from Oyama's book What is Karate?.
When I was driven almost to self-ruin, Mr. Nei-Chu So, an elder of...
Keiko Fukuda – Judo’s Highest-Ranked Woman
The 96-year-old judoka, Keiko Fukuda
Judo's highest-ranked woman, Keiko Fukuda, traveled from San Francisco to Tokyo during the last week of October to be honored at the...
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...
George Alexander
The President and Founder of the International Shorin Ryu Karate Kobudo Federation is Grandmaster George W. Alexander. He is acknowledged as the "World pioneer...
Donnie Williams: Black Karate Federation
Grandmaster Donnie Williams was born in 1947 in Savannah, Georgia. His early upbringing in the ghetto gave him a keen instinct for survival, which...
David James: Vee-Arnis Ju-Jitsu
Professor David James was born in New York City in 1956. He became interest in martial arts as a boy and practiced informally until...
Robert Downey Jr On Overcoming Addiction With Wing Chun
In the nineties, Robert Downey Jr. was arrested multiple times for drug and alcohol-related crimes. He was quoted as saying,
"It's like I have a...
