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“I met great fighters and fought the best in my

                      style I am grateful to God for allowing me to

                                       discover my true passion”




                 in and when he saw  my style of fighting really
                 fast he put to train with his black belts team and  We understand that you got involve with BJJ
                 competed under him for a while I earned my se- and others styles as well?
                 cond degree Black Belt from him, when his Son
                 died he closed the school soon after and left the  Yes endid, the BJJ situation came one day when
                 country I believe I never heard from him again.   I had visited this school in Tarzana, California
                 I got married in 1982 and became a full time  and the school was belong to the Instructor Jean
                 husband, worker and a Teacher.                   Jacques Machado, I heard of him but I really
                                                                  didn’t know who he was, until that day we had
                 So you found your passion on teaching            a great conversation and he invited me to come
                                                                  and train with them so I did and I was very im-
                 Yes..I started to teach Taekwondo now full time  pressed that day I understood that I need to start
                 in Glendale, California and started to learn more  to re-enforce my ground fighting skills which I
                 about Hapkido, now Started to compete more of- did know nothing about and I fall in Love with
                 ten in TKD and kickboxing as well, I did good,  Brazilian Jiujitsu I trained about a year with
                 won several championships in Las Vegas inclu-    them I remember I used to take my little boy who
                 ded, worked in a movie with Master Jung Chong,  was about 5 years old at that time and he used to
                 Phil Rhee and Bill Superfoot Wallace and others  fight with the BOB Dummy all the class time and
                 in a small part .                                then he will talk to JJ after the class,


                 I  met  great  fighters  and  fought  the  best  in  my  When I dislocated my elbow I had to stop trai-
                 style I am grateful to God for allowing me to dis-  ning and by the time I got a little better we star-
                 cover my true passion.                           ted having family problems and work so I had
                                                                  to stop for a good while, when my boy become
                 When my ex-wife become sick I decided to stop  7 years old I put him with the Professor Alberto
                 competing and dedicated  all my time to teach  Crane and Professor Romulo Barral they used
                 and to continue learning as much as I could.     teach at Sherman Oaks  until then went separate
                                                                  ways and my son and I continue training with




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