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After reading a magazine article in 1976, I traveled to San Francisco to explore a new martial art from Japan called Taido. This art woke me up to another dimension in martial arts. When I returned to Hawaii, I continued to train with more enthusiasm, recharged from the recent trip to San Francisco. After tasting new ideas from what islanders call “the mainland,” I then attended the legendary Aspen Academy for a month and got exposure to many different martial arts systems.

Returning to Hawaii to work and go to school, I knew I had to go back to the mainland to study all of the other martial arts that were available there. In 1980, after I graduated from the University of Hawaii, I returned to the mainland (Los Angeles) and started to study all the martial arts systems I had read about and now had a chance to study. It was in Los Angeles that I studied Kali, Capoeira, Savate, Tai Mantis, Wrestling, Boxing, Fencing, Wing-Chun, Pencak Silat, Thai Boxing, Gymnastics/Tumbling, Eagle Claw Kung Fu, Judo, Ju-Jitsu, and Shootwrestling, just to name a few! The diverse and eclectic atmosphere of Los Angeles drew martial artists from all over the world to this martial art mecca.