David Dye, Soke of Shuyokan Ryu, 10th dan

     Sensei David Dye was born in Los Angeles, CA, on February 27, 1945.  He began his martial arts training with the study of Kodokan Judo in Inglewood, CA, in 1962 under Sensei Treese. He paid for his lessons by coming to the dojo after school and cleaning the dojo and helping his instructor with teaching classes and public demonstrations.

     In 1964 Sensei Dye moved to Costa Mesa, CA, where he began training with his second Judo instructor, Sensei Earl Robbins. Sensei Dye continued both his training and competition. He was soon given a teaching position as a Judo instructor at the Harbor Area Boys Club in Costa Mesa.  After 33 years of teaching and training, he was awarded his 5^th degree Black Belts in both Kodokan Judo and Jujitsu in January, 1997.

    Sensei Dye started studying Shito-Ryu Karate in 1967 under Sensei Fumio Demura of the Japan Karate Federation in Santa Ana, CA. Sensei Dye would later go on to study Shotokan Karate in 1978 under one of his Boys Club Judo students and a long time student of Demura Sensei, Dan McGeough Sensei. He finally received his 1st Degree Black Belt in Shotokan Karate Jutsu in 1997 under Earl Treichel Sensei of the Coast Defensive Arts Center, Huntington Beach, CA,. On January 25, 2002 Sensei Dye was awarded the rank of Sandan in Shotokan Karate Jutsu by Treichel Sensei.

     In 1966 Sensei Dye became a Reserve Police Officer with the City of Costa Mesa Police Department in Orange County CA,. In 1967 he became a full time Costa Mesa Police Officer and retired in 1997 after serving 31 years. His assignments included Patrol, Desk Officer, Custody Officer, Court Liaison Officer and Investigation. During the mid 1970s, Sensei Dye was appointed to the position of Lead Defensive Tactics Instructor for the police department by the department’s Training Coordinator, Senior Officer Art Courteau. After his retirement in 1997, he chose to stay on as a Senior Reserve Officer for an additional three years so that he could continue to train officers in Defensive Tactics and Officer Safety. He has instructed over 300 officers in the use of the Orcutt Police Nunchaku and has testified as a court expert on the use of force.  He continues to instruct law enforcement officers at the Shuyokan Dojo, local police departments throughout CA,, and as an Assistant Defensive Tactics Instructor at the Orange County Sheriff’s Department’s Regional Academy.

     Although Sensei Dye began his early study of Aikido around 1967 under Ernie High Sensei, he began a serious study of Yoshinkan Aikido in 1978.  After receiving his 1st and 2^nd degree black belt rankings in Aikido, he was awarded his 3rd Degree Black Belt and Teaching Certificate in 1990 in person and directly from the founder of Yoshinkan Aikido, Soke Gozo Shioda. During that same year, the son of Gozo Shioda, Yasuhisa Shioda, came to the Dojo to award Sensei Dye with the official certification and naming of the Dojo as “Shuyokan”. This was the second Dojo in the world outside of Japan to be named and registered with the International Yoshinkan Aikido Federation.  In 1998, Sensei Dye tested and received his 4th Degree Black Belt in Yoshinkan Aikido from Shihan Sam Combes of the Kadokan Yoshinkai Dojo, Anaheim, CA,.

     From 1991 to 1994, he produced an 8 volume set of video tapes on the use of Yoshinkan Aikido Techniques for Law Enforcement and has been featured on national television and in leading martial arts magazines demonstrating his practical techniques of Aikido.

     In 1993 Sensei Dye was inducted into the World Martial Arts Hall Of Fame receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1995 he was awarded an 8th Degree Black Belt in Aikido Taiho Jutsu by the World Martial Arts Hall of Fame Sokeship Council.  Sensei Dye was inducted into the Masters Hall of Fame in 2000 and was the recipient of the Founders Award from the World Head of Family Shokeship Council's Hall of Fame in 2001.

     On April 7th, 2000, at a ceremony that was attended by more than 100 guests from around the world honoring Shuyokan’s 20^th year in operation and Sensei Dye’s 38^th year in the martial arts, he was officially named Soke of Shuyokan Ryu and promoted to the rank of 10^th Degree Black Belt (Judan) in Shuyokan Ryu, by ‘Ōlohe Solomon Kaihewalu and five other high ranking black belt legends from the World Professional Black Belt Martial Arts Organization.

     Serving as an Independent Contractor for Ki International, Sensei Dye was involved in training members of the United States Army Special Forces, Airborne Division, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in techniques that would later be used for both wartime use homeland security.  Other members of U.S. Military Forces have also studied and used his techniques of Shuyokan Ryu Aikido during their missions while stationed in Iraq.

     Sensei Dye has appeared with and been involved in choreographing martial arts fight scenes for such well known actors as, Fabian Carrillo, and Pepe Serna in the movies Latin Dragon and Double Tap.

     He is also the writer and editor of the first edition book entitled “Ancient Hawaiian Martial Art of Kaihewalu ‘Ohana Lua” by ‘Ōlohe Solomon Kaihewalu and has been studying the Kaihewalu ‘Ohana Lua since 2001 under the personal instruction of ‘Ōlohe Solomon Kaihewalu. 

Bruce H. Jones, MS, FCIA, PPS, 11th dan* USCSA/Sombo

Professional Career Summary 20June06

     Bruce was raised in Japan in Kyushu and near Tokyo during the occupation period following WWII.  He followed his father in military service for 5 years during the Cuban Missile Crisis and early stages of Viet Nam.  His duties included:  paratroop commando and jungle fighter with the 508^th Airborne Infantry as a fire team leader, 101^st Abn. Div. Jump School drill instructor, honor guard detail supervisor, and codes center supervisor.  Bruce was honorably discharged as a non-commissioned officer in 1967.

      Officer Jones began his police career in Mpls., MN in 1967 in a one-man car on uniform patrol, bomb squad, intelligence, and training.  The attorney general later appointed him as the commander and founder of the state organized crime intelligence unit.  From 1976-1980 Bruce served as an executive officer in Miami with the Dade County Public Safety Dept. Organized Crime Bureau. While in Miami, Bruce served as adjunct faculty of criminal justice studies, undergraduate, at Saint Thomas of Villanova University in Miami   

      From 1980-1997 former special agent supervisor Jones completed his 30 year law enforcement career with the Federal Office of Inspector General (OCLR) at WDC in the following assignments:  organized crime and labor racketeering criminal investigations, firearms instructor, advanced defensive tactics instructor, witness protection, executive protection, special investigations team leader, federal program fraud and corruption investigations, internal affairs, OIG training officer, and joint federal counterterrorism task force agency Rep.  S/A Jones was honored to be an instructor at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), and to serve on the President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency (PCIE) where he was commended for rewriting use-of-force policy and the recruitment/training/evaluation  professional standards for all federal criminal investigators for grades 3-15.  Bruce also wrote an Expert Witness Manual for the USDOJ as an operational guide for prosecutors and investigators, and served on the curriculum and standards panel at the FLETC.

      He retired in 1997 and formed his own corporation DBA: Professional Protection, Investigations, and Training, Inc.  He and his wife teach Japanese jujitsu at the YMCA in Reston, VA through the American Jujitsu Assn. and police martial arts. 

BJJY  BHJ  Martial  Arts  Summary  22Jun06

      Federal Special Agent (Ret.) B. Hetrick “Bud” Jones, MS, FCIA, PPS; successfully completed a career of 35 years of combined military, and police service at the city, county, state, and federal levels.  His martial arts and police defensive tactics accomplishments include the following:  currently a sixth degree black belt master teacher in Japanese jujitsu and Russian “Samoz” (self-defense).  His master teachers include: Bruce H. Jones, Sr. (US Army SF,Ret.), G.P. Nobles (USMC,Ret.), Dennis McCurdy, George Kirby, Takayuki Kubota, Tetsuya Higuchi, Shoto Tanemura, Michael Galperin, Cardo Urso (USMC,Ret.), and Philip Porter.

      Earlier in his career, “Bud” Jones was a paratroop commando teaching jungle warfare and survival in Panama with emphasis on counterinsurgency, riot control, bayonet, close quarter combat (CQC), and all long and short firearms.  He has had his own successful American Jujitsu Assn. (AJA) school in the WDC area for over 15 years now teaching:  taihojutsu, jujitsu, judo, kendo, jojutsu, hanbojutsu, jutte, wushu, Russian Samoz, keibojutsu, hojutsu, and CQC.  .  Bruce has served as an instructor at: the FBI Academy, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, International Assn. of Chiefs of Police, International Airport and Seaport Police Assn. in Seattle (while leading an Asian Organized Crime Task Force),  and the Close Combat Instructor Trainers Course and Marine Martial Arts Program in Quantico, VA.  

      He wrote the professional standards for modern taihojutsu in the USA in 1985, and has been licensed as an advanced police defensive tactics instructor, and tactical officer trainer by the Police Martial Arts Assn. and Police Officers Standards and Training (POST) since 1990.  He qualified as a licensed master teacher of defensive tactics at the FLETC and grandmaster pistol marksman with the highest score ever achieved on the combat course at FLETC in 1989.  Bruce is a licensed professional bodyguard and founded his own Corp., DBA Professional Protection, Investigations, and Training, Inc. in the WDC Metro area.  He has protected the President of the United States, Pope John Paul II, U.S. Ambassadors, royalty, and the President of the World Bank.

      Under the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) in the Potomac Valley/WDC, Bud has been a coach, trainer, international referee, and athlete as judo, jujitsu, and Russian jacket wrestling program chairman.  He has led four official PVAAU USA martial arts teams to US Nationals, Pan-American, and World Championships in 1995, 1999, 2000, and 2001. 

     He is also the past president of the U.S. Sombo Assn, and co-founder of the American Sombo Academy. He was one of the original inductees into the Russian Sombo Martial Art and World Sport Hall of Fame, where the 11th Degree rank recognizes his service as President and co-founder of American Sombo; Presented at the Sombo World Championships in Billings, Montana, 30 June 1999.

B2jones@comcast.net

*NOTE: This 11th degree is explained in detail on page 30 of J. Lawler, The Martial Arts Encyclopedia, 1996, Masters press, Indianapolis, IN.

Prof. Tony Maynard, 9th dan, American Combat Ju-Jitsu

Former Marine

9^th dan American Combat Ju-Jitsu, American Ju-Jitsu Association

4^th dan Isshinryu Karate

2^nd dan Judo

Past Chairman of the World Council of Jiu-Jitsu Organizations

Past Head Coach of U.S. Ju-Jitsu Team

Manager of U.S. Ju-Jitsu America

2006 Professor Chow Choon Award

Southern Region Director, American Ju-Jitsu Association

Southern Region Director, Ju-jitsu America

Past President, U.S. Ju-Jitsu Association

Founder of American Combat Ju-Jitsu System

First American to compete in the WCJO World Ju-Jitsu Championships, 1984

Certified Hand-to-Hand Combat Instructor, Dept of the Navy

Member of Ju-Jitsu America’s Black Belt Hall of Fame

Member of World Martial Arts Hall of Fame

Member of World Head of Family Sokeship Council Hall of Fame

Instructor of the Year Ju-jitsu America 1991

Instructor of the Year, American Ju-Jitsu Association, 1985

Certificate of Recognition, Distinguished Service Aware, Ju-Jitsu America

Certificate of Recognition, American Ju-Jitsu Association

Distinguished Service Award, Canadian Ju-Jitsu Association

Certificate of Special Recognition, U.S. Congress

President’s Award, American Ju-Jitsu Association

East Coast Instructor of the Year 1983 and 1984, American Ju-Jitsu Association

Member of Board of Advisors to Prof. Wally Jay’s Small Circle Ju-Jitsu

Owner & Operation of American School of Self-Defense, Inc., Kernersville, NC

Student of Professor Wally Jay

Producer of three American Combat Ju-Jitsu videos.

www.americancombatjujitsu.com