Martial Arts and me

I first studied Tae Kwon Do in Korea when I was in the army there, but dropped it when I returned. I started again when I was 38, and won tournaments when I was 39 and 40. But I was never really any good at kicking and my real love was Hapkido.

Since I came to CA, I studied just a few months with the Stanford Aiki Jujitsu class but now take Zentai Judo/Jujitsu class with the City of Los Altos run by a very eclectic group of teachers. I'm not very good yet at the grappling and throwing, but I really like the counters to being grabbed and doing defense while blind.

Note: because of multiple leg traumas in the last two years, I am no longer active, though I hope to be sometime in 2001.