Besides the Martial Arts I live to SCUBA. Any chance I can get to hit a lake or get to the coast. I love the world below the waves.

I also golf, bowl and hike. I've even walked across the entire state of Nebraska once.

I've Decided to list all of my martial related accomplishments:



Nebraksa C-2 District Runner Up
Nebraska Junior Open Runner Up



Nebraska Junior Open Champion



State of Iowa Champion WltrWgt.
Senior Nationals Record 2-1 WLtrWgt.
N.C.T.A Bronze Medalist (ISU) WltrWgt
ISU - NCTA National Champions
1st Dan - Iowa State University



State of Iowa Champion WltrWgt
Senior Nationals Record 2-1 WltrWgt
Iowa State University Champion
Iowa Games Runner Up
Cornhusker State Games Bronze



Iowa Games Runner Up
Cornhusker Games Champion
2nd Dan - Iowa State University
Iowa State University Invitation - Runner up



State of Nebraska Chamnpion - Hvywgt
Senior Nationals Record 2-1
3rd Dan - Nebraska Black Belt Assn


1st Dan - Nebraska Black Belt Assn.



4th Dan US Chung Do Kwan


2nd Dan International Combat Hapkido Fed.



3rd Dan Combat Hapkido
Appointed Nebraska Director of the ICHF



4th Dan Combat Hapkido



5th Dan US Chung Do Kwan


Appointed Admiral Great Nebraska Navy - For contributions to youth bully education.



5th Dan Combat Hapkido



6th Dan San Mai Martial Arts
Awarded Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal for women's self-defense programs and youth peer pressure/bully education programs.


Deployed to the Middle East in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom



6th Dan Combat Hapkido
Appointed to the Advisory Board of the Military Combatives Association.

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I began Taekwondo on September 5, 1986. I was a walk on wrestler at Iowa State University. During the 2nd week at the univeristy I was finishing a workout with the wrestling team, it was a doozy. I was still laying on the mats when in walks awhole bunch of white belts. Shortly after that in walks Master Yong Chin Pak. I watched Coach Les Andersen go up and talk to him and they shared a few laughs. I walked up and intorduced myself, Master Pak invited me to stay and try the class. Despite my being dead tired already, I just had to try. I had wanted to do Taekwondo for almost 6 years but had no opportunities living in the small town I grew up in.

I was hooked. within a year I had left the wrestling team but instead had committed fully to working with Master Pak. I was part of the ISU Hapkido, ISU Karate (named such only because there were 2 clubs teaching taekwondo), and the ISU Judo clubs. I even served as the social chair for the judo club. I've been apracticing, resarching and teaching ever since.

Since leaving ISU in 1990 I have look to the teachings I recieved from Master Pak to guide me whenever possible. While I am no longer directly affiliated with the Pak Family his legacy does flow throw to my students.

I believe in hard workouts, with a dash of philisophical discussion. I believe the inidvidual should make the art fit themselves not make themselves fit the art.

I mostly focus on Hapkido Instruction these days but I do still teach Taekwondo and occasionally coach others for compititions.

I am a father and husband with a wonderful loving family. I work as a corrections officer at the Douglas County Jail in Omaha, Nebraska. I have been in corrections for about 7 years now. Before that I was a programmer/analyst for almost 15 years.

I am the senior Master Instructor at San-Mai Headquarters in Omaha. I focus on the instructor develolpment and the teaching of the adults, juniors, hapkido students, and black belt training.

Additionally I continue to serve my county as a Master-at-Arms in the United States Navy Reserve. In 2006 I was mobilized to the middle east for a 14 month deployment with Mobile Inshore Undersea Warfare Unit 114. It was a long but enlightening deployment. I had the opportunity to train many sailors, airmen, soldiers, and even marines.

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