Jorge J. Angulo 4th Dan. Chief Instructor

Angulo Sensei began his martial arts training at the age of six in Hialeah, Fla. at the famed Hialeah School of Judo under master instructor Raul Guash. Persuaded by an older relative to leave judo and train in Karate, Angulo Sensei began his formal training in Karate at the Twin Dragons Karate School under Sensei Juan Sagaro. After Twin Dragon closed he was introduced to Donald Graham Sensei who at the time was teaching American Freestyle Karate (Joe Lewis System of Tracy's Kenpo Karate), and Aikido.Angulo Sensei attained his sho-dan (first degree black belt)

at the age of eighteen in American Freestyle Karate.
At the same time that he studied Karate with Graham Sensei he studied Aikido (at the time a little known martial art) receiving his Sho-dan at the age of nineteen in Aikido from Graham Sensei's teacher Masatoshi Yamashita of Hiroshima, Japan.

By the age of 21 Angulo Sensei received his Ni Dan (second degree black belt) in Karate from Graham Sensei and Ni Dan in Aikido from Yamashita Sensei. In 1985 Angulo Sensei was promoted to San Dan (third degree black belt) in Tracy's Kenpo Karate by the founder of the art Al Tracy. In 1988 Angulo Sensei was promoted to San Dan in Aikido by Yamashita Sensei and opened his first Aikido Dojo, Aikido School of Florida that same year.

In the summer of 1991 Angulo Sensei met Steven Seagal Shihan and was impressed with Seagal Sensei's powerful style of Aikido and asked Seagal Shihan to accept him as a student. Angulo Sensei was accepted as a student and his school was one of only three schools under the direction of Seagal Shihan at the time. Today, Angulo Sensei continues to maintain a student teacher relationship with Seagal Shihan and holds teaching credentials and black belt rank directly from Seagal Shihan.Only a handful of individuals have attained black belt ranking under Seagal Shihan. Angulo Sensei also studies Brazilian Jiu-jitsu under Professor Mike Cardoso.