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(Weapons specialist: Knife, Sword, Hatchet, Shurkin, Tonfa, PR-24, Batons)Current Ranks: First Degree Black Belt Hapkido, First Degree Black Belt Jujitsu, Seventh Degree Black Belt Taekwondo
Experience - Training - Records: 1960 Began Martial Arts training at the age of 8 1964 Began as a Martial Arts Instructor at the age of 12 1966 First Degree Black Belt at the age of 13 1970 ATA National Grand Champion 1973 European/American World Middle Weight Champion - Kolin, Germany 3 Gold Medals Winner 1974 Heavy Weight ATA Grand Champion 1976 Middle Weight ATA Full Contact Kick Boxing Champion By 1982 Kick Boxing - Record of 26 - 0 - through 1982 Golden Gloves Middle Weight Champion - Omaha, NE 1977 Professional Boxing - Record of 13 - 0 through football career 1978 1978 Owned and operated the largest martial art school in the mid-west Expanded to a 10,000 Sq. ft. Fitness center 1979 Taught Survival Training to Military - CIA - Secret Service personnel by private contract and through Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command - through the 80's. Set new World Record for Concrete Breaking of 12" - 18" - 22" - 30" 1980 Set New World Record Concrete Break of 40" 1981 Set World Record Board Break of 5,000 boards in 24 hours MDA Charity Event. 1982 Set New World Record Board Break of 7, 369 boards in 24 hours MDA Charity Event. MDA National Spokes Person 1984 Set New World Record Board Break of 10, 001 boards in 24 hours- MDA Charity Event National Hope Chest Award Winner 1985 Fire Fighter / Arson Training - Leavenworth KS 1987 Set New World Record Board Break of 15,001 boards in 30 hours MDA Charity Event 1988 Sixth Degree Black Belt - Executive Vice-President of the American . Taekwondo Association. National Chairman of Instruction with 2,398 Instructors and 19 Regional Officers under his management. Director of marketing and instructor curriculum development. Raised One Million Dollars for the Muscular Dystrophy Association Certified Defense Tactics Instructor in the PPCT System Certified well within 500 Police Defense Tactic Instructors throughout the country. 1989-1990 Developed his own defensive Tactics Company and Martial Arts Organization - Martial Arts Research Systems (MARS) June 1, 1990. Developed the MARS Anti-Child abduction and safety program. Co-authored Rape Prevention program - Criminal Counter Measures and as a psycho motor skill expert, has taught rape prevention to thousands of people nation wide as well as certified Instructors in the program; including: Rape Crisis Center, Little Rock, AR United Airlines, Chicago, IL Federal Express, Memphis, TN United States Navy Defense, Norfolk, VA Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, Little Rock, AR Countless Hospitals and Martial Arts Organizations In developing his own defense tactic systems for various military groups and law enforcement agencies, his focus has always been to train civilians, public safety, law enforcement defensive tactics, use of force policy - and military groups survival training, anti-terrorist subject control. The following are some of the people or organizations Mr. Craig has trained in the past several years: Little Rock Public School Security Little Rock SWAT Team - LRPD Pine Bluff, AR Police Department PBPD Arkansas State Police Tactical Team - ASP Mount Home, Arkansas Police Department - MHPD Harrison, Arkansas Police Department - HPD Arkansas Game & Fish Commission San Diego, Ca Narcotics Division - SDPD United States Army (Para Rescue / Anti-Terrorist EST Teams) Ft. Brag, SC United States Navy SEALS Teams and Instructors (National Security Coordination Teams) Red Cell - NSCT) Amphibious Base Norfolk, VA - Defensive Tactics & Hand to Hand Combat, Survival training. Government Security Guard Training - Paraguay, South America Other Martial Arts organizations and agencies too numerous to mention. |