Steve Muhammad: Black Karate Federation
10th degree Black Belt, Grandmaster Steve Muhammad, is a co-founder of the Black Karate Federation and the organization’s first President. He is also one...
Takayuki Kubota: Gosoku Ryu Karate
Born in Kumamoto, Japan, Takayuki Kubota began studying martial arts at the age of four under the direction of his father, Denjiro Kubota. Because...
Hironori Ohtsuka and Wado Ryu Karate
Hironori Otsuka, a wiry, white-haired master, drops of sweat glistening across his brow and up the crown of his bald spot, led 40 young...
Taekwondo’s Own Jhoon Rhee
Jhoon Rhee was born on January 7, 1932 and died on Monday, April 30, 2018. He passed away after a long illness in hospice care...
Willie Lim: Combat Tai Chi Master
9th degree Black Belt, Willie Lim was born into a Malayan family of Kung Fu practitioners, his uncle was Head of the Eagle Claw...
Ed Parker Sr: Teacher, Author, and Promoter
On March 19, 1931, Ed Parker Sr was born to Arthur and Eva Parker in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was the sixth of seven children...
Shojiro Sugiyama: Shotokan Karate
Shojiro Sugiyama was born on November 16, 1929. He was a Japanese karate instructor. In 1954, after training in two other styles of karate,...
Howard Jackson the “California Flash”
Howard Jackson hails from the mean streets of Detroit Michigan. Survival was a daily affair and to do so Jackson looked to the martial arts...
Hohan Soken: Matsumura Seito Shorin-ryu Karate
Okinawan martial arts master, Hohan Soken founded the Shorin-ryu Matsumura Seito Okinawa Karate Kobudo Association
Hohan Soken was born on May 25, 1889 and lived in...
Chomo Hanashiro: Shorin Ryu
Chomo Hanashiro was born in 1869. At an early age he began training with a man consider to be the greatest of all Tote...
Ron Marchini: Renbukai Karate
Ron Marchini, an American karate instructor and Black Belt Hall of Famer, was a champion tournament fighter in the late '60s and early '70s.
Sam Kuoha and His Kara-Ho Kempo
The worse case scenario in a fight is to be surrounded by a handful of people whose only purpose in life at that moment...
Richard Kim: Okinawan Kobudo and Shorinji-ryu Karate
It is with deep regret that we inform you of the passing of an American Karate Martial Arts Icon-Pioneer. Master Richard Kim passed away...
Kyuzo Mifune: “God of Judo”
Kyuzo Mifune was born on April 21, 1883 in Kuji City, Iwate Prefecture, on Honshu Island in Japan the youngest of seven children. It...
Tim Tackett: Jeet Kune Do
While in the U.S.A.F., Tim Tackett was stationed in Taiwan for almost three years. While there he studied Kuo Shu . His wife was...
Georg Brueckner
In 1952 Georg Brueckner began practicing martial arts and he studied judo, karate and jujutsu. He opened his first karate dojo in Wilmersdorf, West-Berlin...