Floyd Burk
Floyd Burk |
Currently a contributing editor, Burk began writing exclusively for Black Belt and its sister publications since his first article appeared in the December 1994 issue of Black Belt. An avid martial arts researcher, Burk writes feature articles and content for Black Belt's news section on a regular basis. He also contributed to Black Belt's State of Taekwondo column from 2001 to 2007. He has interviewed a number of martial arts legends and luminaries, including David Carradine, Bill Wallace, Joe Lewis, Jhoon Rhee, S. Henry Cho, Hee Il Cho, Soon-Ho Lee, Eric Lee, and Olympic athletes Steven Lopez and Nia Abdallah. Burk’s martial arts training began in 1970. In 1980 he opened his first karate school in Upland, California. Burk relocated his school to Norco, California, the next year and established a school in Rancho Cucamonga, California, in 1983. While Burk no longer has schools in these locales, karate programs are still operated there by students and/or students of students and other colleagues. Burk is also the co-founder of the Independent Karate Schools of America. The IKSA was established in the early 1980s to represent independent martial artists who stood for honor, integrity, indomitable spirit and loyalty. For the past 20 years, Burk has been training under grandmaster George W. Owens of Russellville, Arkansas, who teaches his own system known as honto-ryu karate. Honto-ryu is a system that uses karate’s hand and foot techniques, aikijujutsu's limb and joint manipulations plus pressure-point attacks and defenses. Included in this combat system is an emphasis on the training, research and analysis of traditional Okinawan and Japanese kata. To contact Floyd Burk, send an e-mail to floydburk@yahoo.com. For more information about Steve Chambliss and Chuck Vaughn, visit www.worldtangsoodo.com. For more information about Frank Trejo, visit Franktrejokarate.com or e-mail him at kumupalani@sbcglobal.net. Click here for more profiles! |
