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~ Dreams Do Come True, just Reach out and Take it ~

Debi and I are very proud of our daughter. She’s a top Fitness Coach, Nutritional Consultant, Advisor, and National Public Speaker. Danny, as she prefers, has been an athlete her entire life. She shares her experience now doing what she loves as she helps others.

She is admired and respected as a leader by her peers in High School and College, where she studied Nutrition and Fitness. She is a ‘Mom’ and still helping others reach their goals for a healthy, happy lifestyle.

In High School and College, she developed her skills on Competitive Cheerleading teams, later using them as a Coach. My personal favorite was: Taking her Special Needs Cheerleading Team to Nationals and winning.

10th Degree Black Belt, Successor and Head of Ralph Castro’s International Shaolin Kenpo Association. National and International Seminar Instructor, Rob is known for his kindness and for being an awesome teacher. With 60+ years of experience in Shaolin Kenpo, he is the 3rd of 7 children. Rob was raised with 5 sisters and a brother. He began training at 5.

Rob is mentioned by writer and biographer Tom Bleeker, co-writer of ‘Dragon, the Bruce Lee Story’ with Bruce Lee’s widow, Linda Lee Cadwell. Tom records firsthand Bruce Lee’s debut in the USA. At that event, on the same day, an 8-year-old named Rob Castro was also there.

With permission, paraphrased from Mr. Bleecker’s book ‘Unsettled Matters’: “In the midst of all of this excitement, an 8-year-old boy, Rob Castro, son of renounced San Francisco Bay area Martial Arts pioneer Ralph Castro, gives a performance that brings the crowd to its feet in resounding applause’.

Representing Kajukenbo, and Taekwondo, this family man touches lives in Positive and Healthy ways.

6th Degree Master in Won Hop Ken Do, Coordinator of Media events for Senior Grandmaster and Sifu Al Dacascos, ‘Dacascos Tactical Systems’. Acting contributor and Featured Instructor with The ‘International Kajukenbo Association. Owner of Iron Fist Martial Arts, Winnipeg, Canada, 2009 Martial Arts World magazine Hall of Fame Award.

Besides being a fun person, Sonny has served as a bodyguard to Celebrities such as Mark Dacascos and Karen Shepherd. He is a fighter on a World Championship level. Sonny works with local Police and in School systems with Children’s anti-bullying programs. He has spent years traveling with Senior Grandmaster Al Dacascos as his Assistant Nationally and internationally.

8th Degree Master in Shotukan Karate. 7 Time World Champion. 50 years as a student, Instructor, Coach and Competitor. Can-Am Hall of Fame Member. Retired math Teacher.

Bill claims he was born in Yukon Territory, about ‘100 miles North of Nowhere’, and was introduced to Martial Arts in ‘show and tell’ by a young girl learning Judo and wearing her Uniform to class. Bill currently lives in Surrey, British Columbia, where he is a retired Math Teacher and former Martial Arts School Owner.

Bill was the Tournament Director at Challenge Productions, and (SKIL) Sport Karate International Can-Am Director and Certified NBL Center Referee.

Retiring, for Bill, means he is free to spend more time with his family, friends, students, and training partners, because as they say in Canada, ‘It’s What We Do’.

Multiple and versatile World Champion, Hall of Fame member, student and Instructor in Tae-Kwon-Do, hailing from L.A.

Jack is available to anyone who would like to train with him in person on doing privates on zoom.

Coach Jack, is a Top Competitor Internationally, according to Black Belt Magazine and the National Blackbelt League: Jack will go down as ‘One of the Greatest Sport Competition Point Fighters of all time’.

Jack holds Titles in 3 Leagues; NBL, NASKA, WAKO, and was a member of the Los Angeles All Stars and the World Combat League, WCL, started by Chuck Norris.

He is now a team coach for L.A.’s ‘League of Angels’.