Artists of Motion Steve Zalazowski, Sr.

Our guest this episode is Master of the Arts, Kenpo, Angelo Collado from Southern CA, USA. He’s been in the martial arts since the late 1970s, primarily in the kenpo lineages under notables like the late GM Frank Trejo and GM Yosh Furuya. He’s a 14x winner of the Long Beach International Karate Black Belt Forms competition, 4X IKC Grand Champion and 5x European IKC Champion. He was Inducted into the Masters Hall of Fame in 2000, and has taught internationally in several countries over the years. He founded ASTASIA (ah stah cia) with his son, his tactical and edge weapon system based in kenpo principles. Hear all about it and more on this episode of the Artists of Motion!

Mr. Terry McCord grew up in Huntington Beach, CA and started training in 1982, with formal training in several arts. He has studied karate, aikido and later found his calling in the arts in the American Kenpo lineages. Today he runs American Kenpo Consulting out of the great state of Texas, USA. His personal expression has evolved into Direction Method Weapon or DMW Kenpo. Hear about his Journey on a great episode of the Artists of Motion Podcast!

Season 2, Episode 10 brings us 2018 Kenpo Karate Hall of Fame Inductee Associate Master Todd M. Durgan from Washington state, USA. Todd has studied several martial arts and is the head  of Phasic Kombatives Integrated. His specialty is in Contact Manipulation and he’s been featured in a couple of books, most recently as of recording date the third edition of the Journey by Tom Bleecker. He’s developed a series of Kenposters which are training aids for kenpo systems, and is presently working on the followup to his Constituents of Contact Manipulation” book he released a few years ago.

Season 2, Episode 9 brings us Sensei David Caban hailing from Colorado Springs, CO USA. He’s got more than 25 years of training in the martial arts in several different lineages. He’s certified to instruct both Math and Physics at the high school and collegiate level. He’s a veteran with almost 20 years of service with the US Air Force and we thank him greatly for his service. We were recording during a bit of a blizzard going on outside his dojo, so we’ll apologize in advance if we have some connectivity shenanigans. Enjoy the episode and if you're ever in Colorado Springs, look him up!

Our featured guest today is “Coach V” aka Viran Ranasinghe out of Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. Primarily focused training and teaching Tang Soo Do and Kenpo, he oversees a large school with multiple disciplines taught every week. He’s a distance runner in his spare time with a degree in Business. 

Season 2 Episode 7 features Jon Rodriguez - Hanshi. He is the Certified Chief Instructor of the Contra Costa Budokan, and the senior student aka Senpai of Seibukan Jujutsu. Jon holds advanced black belt level degrees in several martial arts and has been actively training and teaching since the early 2000's. We have a great chat covering a wide variety of subjects relative to his training and the life lessons he has received from his efforts learning various systems of martial arts.