Jessie Bowen Aiki-Shinkai Karate
Karate International of Durham was founded in 1980 by Hanshi Jessie Bowen as a Karate International franchise school under the Karate International brand.
Hanshi Jessie...
Willie “The BAM” Johnson
Willie “The Bam" Johnson’s life story is so powerful that A&E created a documentary about him. The documentary shows his rebirth from bullying, poverty,...
Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan was born in Hong Kong on April 7, 1954 to Charles and Lee-lee Chan who named him Kong-san Chan which means "born...
Dojo Stress
In our lives we often have little or no time to ever relax. When was the last time you sat down and simply thought...
Kevin Brett Karate
Kevin Brett has thirty years of martial arts training and teaching experience. He and wife Lana Kaye Brett were two of the five co-founders...
Isaac Florentine
Isaac Florentine Martial Arts
In 1972, Isaac Florentine began his career in the Martial Arts in Tel Aviv Israel. He first trained in Judo and...
Hans Ingebretsen Danzan Ryu Ju Jitsu and Kodenkan Judo
Sensei Hans Ingebretsen has been studying Danzan Ryu Ju Jitsu and Kodenkan Judo for 31 years, and holds the rank of Godan in Danzan...
Margitte Hilbig First Canadian Black Belt
Margitte Hilbig was a martial arts master based in Edmonton, Canada. In 1964, she became the first woman in Canada to earn the rank...
Jean Carrillo Muay Thai
Jean Carrillo is one of the few that people who have trained and worked with Ramon Dekker and Cor Hemmer in the late 1990's....
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)...
Vinson Holck Kodenkan Yudanshakai
Professor Vinson Holck is the president of the Kodenkan Yudanshakai. He has studied martial arts from birth, beginning under the tutelage of his father,...
James Toney of the Blood and Guts Era of Karate
Martial artist James Toney began a lifetime of involvement in the martial arts in 1964 when he signed up for Tae Kwon Do classes...
David Lee Abbott American Mixed Martial Artist
David Lee Abbott, nicked named Tank was born on April 26, 1965 in Huntington Beach, California. He is an American mixed martial artist. He...
Su Kong T’ai Djin
Great Grandmaster Su Kong was born in Fukien in 1849. He came to the world with a genetic condition hyperthrihos that covered him with...
Ronnie Colwell Karate-do and Ju Jutsu
The Warrior
Today has been a long, sad, difficult but inevitable day. At just before 9pm on Friday evening (January 27, 2015), my dad, mentor,...
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 ....
