Instructor’s credentials:
- Sandan (third degree black belt), Order of Isshin-Ryu Martial Arts
- Nidan (second degree black belt), Shorinji Kempo
- Former kickboxer – trained one-on-one by Roni Lewis (3-time world kickboxing champion)
- Former assistant defensive tactics instructor at Wor-Wic Community College Police Academy
- Trained 8 years by Master Barry Smith, kudan (ninth degree black belt), Order of Isshin-Ryu Martial Arts and top DT Instructor at the MD State Police Academy and Wor-Wic Community College Police Academy
- Retired MD State Trooper