Decades on the mat, and in the classroom

Sensei Gray studied directly under Master Teruyuki Okazaki, a renowned karate master with the International Shotokan Karate Federation, for over 33 years.

He has taught two academic credit courses at Neumann University, PE213 Karate & Physical Development and PE226 Karate & Spirituality, and was chief instructor of the Neumann Karate Club. He has served on the Board of Directors of the National Collegiate Karate Association with the I.S.K.F. and of the Rocky Run Y.M.C.A. in Media, Pennsylvania, where he also taught a karate-do program.

Sensei Gray has taught social science courses at Neumann University, Rowan University and Delaware County Community College, integrating karate training into his lessons. He stresses the value of education and the martial arts; his classes reflect a sociological perspective on how martial arts help make sense of 21st-century society and how to apply its principles to everyday living.

He is an alumnus of Delaware County Community College, Neumann University, Cheyney University and the University of Pennsylvania, and attributes his many educational and personal successes to his experience in the martial arts.

Sensei Lynn studied directly under Hajju Dawud and George Cofield at Saint John’s Martial Arts Dojo in Antigua, West Indies. He began his training at age 7 with Grand Master Ling Young Yu of China, and has trained with international instructors including Shihan Teruyuki Okazaki in Philadelphia and Camile Paulin from Guadeloupe.

He has taught police officers in the Leeward and Windward Islands of the Caribbean, and in the United States at the University of Pennsylvania’s Community Education Center after-school programs, where he taught Women’s Self-Defense and a Women’s Safety Course.

Sensei Lynn graduated from Saint Leo College in Saint Leo, Florida, with a dual degree in Management and Marketing.