TIM BECHERER

IS THE FOUNDER OF DDT MARTIAL ARTS. HIS MARTIAL ARTS JOURNEY BEGAN IN THE SUMMER OF 1982 AT THE QUAD CITY MARTIAL ARTS CENTER LOCATED IN MOLINE ILLINOIS AT THAT TIME. HE STUDIED SHORIN RYU KARATE AND PKA KICKBOXING UNDER SENSEI ULYSSES OWENS.

IN 1993 AFTER RELOCATING TO THE TAMPA/ST PETERSBURG FLORIDA AREA, TIM TOOK UP HIS STUDIES OF JEET KUNE DO, THE FILIPINO MARTIAL ARTS, AND MUAY THAI UNDER LOREN BOOKBINDER.

AFTER RELOCATING TO LOS ANGELES AFTER GRADUATING COLLEGE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, TIM FOUND THE INOSANTO ACADEMY OF MARTIAL ARTS AND HAS BEEN A STUDENT THERE SINCE 2004 AND HAS TAUGHT REGULAR CLASSES AT THE ACADEMY SINCE 2014.

AT THE INOSANTO ACADEMY OF MARTIAL ARTS, HE BECAME A STUDENT OF GURO DAN INOSANTO OF COURSE BUT ALSO A STUDENT OF SIFU LARRY HARTSELL. TIM IS RANKED AS AN INSTRUCTOR UNDER BOTH DAN INOSANTO AND LARRY HARTSELL.

HIS CONNECTION TO THE INOSANTO ACADEMY HAS ALSO BLESSED HIM WITH IN DEPTH TRAINING IN KENNY JOHNSON’S BOLT WRESTLING, BALINTAWAK WITH BOTH GM ISING ATILLO AND GM NENE GAABUCAYAN. HE HAS ALSO STUDIED AND QUALIFIED AS AN INSTRUCTOR IN OTHER SOUTHEAST ASIAN KICKBOXING METHODS LIKE KUN KHMER PRADAL SEREY WITH LOK KRU OUM RY BAN AND THUT TI LETHWEI UNDER SAYA WIN ZIN OO.

UNDER THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF GURO DAN INOSANTO, GURO PAULA INOSANTO, AND GURO COOKIE VASSILIOU, HE CREATED DOBLE DOS TATSULOK MARTIAL ARTS TO CREATE TOP LEVEL INSTRUCTORS WORLD WIDE.

INSTRUCTORS LISTED ALPHABETICALLY

ANTHONY ADAMS

IS A MARTIAL ARTIST FROM ROCK ISLAND ILLINOIS. HE BEGAN HIS STUDIES IN OMNI SU CHINESE BOXING UNDER THE INSTRUCTION OF A STUDENT OF SIJO CHRIS JENKINS. ANTHONY HAS CONTINUED HIS STUDIES BY TAKING UP JKD, FMA, SILAT, AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN KICKBOXING SYSTEMS STUDYING WITH THE LEGENDARY DAN INOSANTO. HE IS A STUDENT OF AND CERTIFIED INSTRUCTOR UNDER DDT FOUNDER TIM BECHERER

NATHAN ARCHAMBAULT – BIOGRAPHY COMING SOON

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JOHN ARDEN – JOHN ARDEN IS A LOS ANGELES AREA BASED MARTIAL ARTIST – BIOGRAPHY COMING SOON

RICHARD BENNETT -BIOGRAPHY COMING SOON

MARK BLACK – BIOGRAPHY COMING SOON

MIGUEL DECOSTE

MIGUEL BEGAN HIS MARTIAL ARTS JOURNEY AT AGE 12, INSPIRED BY BRUCE LEE AND KUNG FU FILMS, INITIALLY TRAINING IN HAPKIDO UNDER GRANDMASTER BONG SOO HAN. AFTER A HIATUS DURING HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE, HE RESUMED TRAINING UNDER SIFU RAY COPELAND, STUDYING JEET KUNE DO, KALI, MUAY THAI, WING CHUN, SILAT, AND SHOOT FIGHTING. UNDER SIFU RAY’S GUIDANCE , MIGUEL EARNED THE RANK OF ASSOCIATE INSTRUCTOR IN JKD AND THE FILIPINO MARTIAL ARTS.
HE IS ALSO A FULL DOG BROTHER (QUIET DOG) UNDER PUNONG GURO MARC DENNY AND COMPETED AT DOG BROTHERS GATHERINGS FOR OVER 15 YEARTS. MIGUEL HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF TRAINING EXCLUSIVELY WITH DAN INOSANTO AND HIS CADRE OF INSTRUCTORS AT THE INOSANTO ACADEMY.CURRENTLY LIVING IN PORTO, PORTUGAL, HE IS DEDICATED TO SHARING HIS DIVERSE MARTIAL ARTS EXPERIENCE WITH A NEW GENERATION OF STUDENTS.

MARK EVELEIGH – BIOGRAPHY COMING SOON

DAN FORCEY – BIOGRAPHY COMING SOON

DANA GRILIKHES – DANA IS A MEMBER OF THE DDT BOARD BIOGRAPHY COMING SOON

DAVID HEARST

IS THE OWNER AND HEAD INSTRUCTOR OF CONTROL MARTIAL ARTS. HE HAS BEEN TRAINING IN THE MARTIAL ARTS SINCE 1989. OVER THE PAST THREE DECADES, HE’S BEEN FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO STUDY UNDER SOME OF THE WORLD’S MOST KNOWLEDGEABLE INSTRUCTORS. ADDITIONALLY, DAVID IS ALSO A DOCTOR OF CHIROPRACTIC WITH A LICENSE TO PRACTICE ACUPUNCTURE. WHEN NOT TEACHING EVENING GROUP CLASSES, DAVID SPENDS HIS DAYS EITHER SEEING PATIENTS OR DOING PRIVATE LESSONS IN THE MARTIAL ARTS.

DAVID HOLDS INSTRUCTOR/COACH RANK IN THE FOLLOWING SYSTEMS:
MKG INTERNATIONAL MARTIAL ARTS – INSTRUCTOR RANK UNDER SIFU RICK FAYE
KALI & JEET KUNE DO – INSTRUCTOR RANK UNDER GURO DAN INOSANTO

DDT MARTIAL ARTS – INSTRUCTOR RANK UNDER TIM BECHERER
MUAY THAI KICKBOXING – INSTRUCTOR RANK UNDER AJARN CHAI SIRISUTE
BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU – BLACK BELT UNDER PROFESSOR ROY HARRIS
COMBAT SUBMISSION WRESTLING – COACH RANK UNDER SENSEI ERIK PAULSON

NICK LANZA – BIOGRAPHY COMING SOON

BRANDON MANCUSO – BIOGRAPHY COMING SOON

DARREN MORGAN

SIFU/SENSEI DARREN FIRST GOT INVOLVED IN MARTIAL ARTS AT THE AGE OF 9 WHEN HE BEGAN STUDYING WADO RYU KARATE. AFTER COMPLETING HIS FINAL EXAM UNDER SHIHAN VERNON BELL (THE FATHER OF THE BRITISH KARATE MOVEMENT), HE WENT ON TO STUDY SEVERAL DIFFERENT SYSTEMS INCLUDING KICKBOXING, WING CHUN, AND OTHERS.

HAVING READ THE WORKS OF BRUCE LEE IN HIS TWENTIES, DARREN THEN BECAME VERY INTERESTED IN JEET KUNE DO. AFTER MOVING TO CALIFORNIA, DARREN FOCUSED ON JKD, TRAINING AT THE INOSANTO ACADEMY OF MARTIAL ARTS WITH SIFU DAN INOSANTO AND SIFU YORI NAKAMURA.

UPON HEARING THAT SIFU/GURO TIM BECHERER HAD CREATED DOBLE DOS TATSULOK MARTIAL ARTS, DARREN WAS EAGER TO JOIN AND SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH OF THE ORGANIZATION. AS A LOING TIME STUDENT AND TRAINING ASSOCIATE OF TIM BECHERER, SIFU DARREN WAS EAGER TO IMPLEMENT THE STRUCTURED LEARNING AND SYLLABUS OF DDT INTO HIS STUDENTS EDUCATION AT HIS OWN SCHOOL, THE INTERCEPTING COMBAT ARTS ACADEMY.

ALONG WITH HIS QUALIFICATIONS IN JKD, SIFU DARREN IS ALSO A PURPLE BELT IN BJJ, RANKED BY PROFESSOR CHRIS HAUETER AND A CERTIFIED MEMBER OF THE COMBAT BASE CLUB. HE IS ALSO A KARATE BLACK BELT UNDER THE AMERICAN KARATE ASSOCIATION WHICH CERTIFIES HIS KARATE STUDENTS.

HE CURRENTLY TEACHES KARATE, JKD, FMA, & GRAPPLING TO KIDS, TEENS, AND ADULTS AT THE INTERCEPTING COMBAT ARTS ACADEMY IN WOODLAND HILLS (HOSTED BY TEAM KARATE CENTER). AS A PROUD MEMBER OF DDT, ALL OF HIS STUDENTS ARE CERTIFIED IN THE ARTS OF KICKBOXING, FMA, AND JKD BY SIFU/GURO TIM AND TRAINED UNDER THE DDT PROGRAM.

DARREN IS ALSO AVAILABLE FOR PRIVATE CLASSES IN WEST LA AND SURROUNDING AREAS. FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT HIM AT: INTERCEPTINGCOMBATARTS@YAHOO.COM

BEA NGUYEN – BIOGRAPHY COMING SOON

DIEM NGUYEN – BIOGRAPHY COMING SOON

JACOB NORDIN – BIOGRAPHY COMING SOON

JAY O’SHEA – BIOGRAPHY COMING SOON

DANIEL PARK – BIOGRAPHY COMING SOON

VINCENT PHAM – BIOGRAPHY COMING SOON

MICHAEL PEREZ – BIOGRAPHY COMING SOON

RICK RAY

RICK RAY BEGAN HIS MARTIAL ARTS CAREER IN 1972 . THROUGHOUT THE 70’S HE STUDIED SHAOLIN AND HUNG GAR KUNG FU, TAE KWON DO, AND KAJUKENPO KARATE.

IN THE LATE 1970’S, HE SAW THE BRUCE LEE FIGHTING METHOD BOOKS AND THE TAO OF JEET KUNE DO AND BEGAN TO APPLY THEIR METHODS TO THE MARTIAL ARTS THAT HE WAS ALREADY STUDYING. USING WHAT HE LEARNED, HE BGAN TO WIN SPARING COMPETITIONS MORE FREQUENTLY.

IT WAS AT THIS TIME THAT HE DECIDED HE WOULD PURSUE THE ART OF JEET KUNE DO. HE WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO BEGIN HIS TRAINING IN THE MID 1980’S THROUGH SEMINARS WITH DAN INOSANTO, RICHARD BUSTILLO, AND LARRY HARTSELL.

IN THE LATE 1980’S THROUGH THE MID 1990’S, HE BEGAN TRAVELING TO VARIOUS SEMINARS WITH THESE INSTRUCTORS AS MUCH AS HE COULD. IT WAS AT THIS TIME THAT HE BEGAN TO TRAIN MORE FREQUENTLY WITH SIFU LARRY HARTSELL AS SIFU LARRY’S APPROACH SEEM TO PERSONALLY RESONATE WITH RICK.

OVER THE YEARS HE TRAINED EXTENSIVELY IN JUN FAN/JKD, KALI/ESCRIMA, AND SILAT, TRAINING NOT ONLY IN THE INOSANTO LINEAGE BUT WITH OTHER ESCRIMA AND SILAT TEACHERS AS WELL AS OTHER ORIGINAL BRUCE LEE STUDENTS.

IN 1991 HE WAS INTRODUCED TO BRAZILIAN JIU JITSU AND BEGAN TRAINING LOCALLY VIA SEMINARS.

IN 1982 HE WAS ABLE TO MEET AND BEGIN TRAINING WITH DR. MASAAKI HATSUMI, EVENTUALLY EARNING THE RANK OF 10TH DEGREE BLACK BELT AND THE TITLES OF SHIDOSHI AND SHIHAN.

HE ALSO TRAINED FOR NEARLY A DECADE WITH SHOTO TANEMURA OF THE GENBUKAN AND KOKUSAI JUJUTSU RENMEI AS WELL AS OTHER TEACHERS WITHIN THE GREATER FAMILY TREE OF THE TAKAMATSU-DEN LINEAGES.

AFTER 43 YEARS OF CONTINUOUS STUDY WITH MANY TRIPS TO JAPAN, HE FOUNDED HIS OWN SYSTEM OF TRADITIONAL JAPANESE NINPO/BUDO BASED ON THE ANCIENT LINEAGES OF HIS STUDIES TAUGHT IN A MODERN CONTEXT FOCUSED ON REAL FIGHTING ABILITY: JISSENKAN NINPO BUGEI RENMEI.

RICK IS ALSO AN OFFICIAL INSTRUCTOR IN RENSHINKAN DAITO RYU JUJUTSU AS WELL AS VARIOUS OTHER SYSTEMS.

ASIDE FROM THE ABOVE, MR. RAY HAS TRAINED IN AND CONTINUES TO TRAIN IN A VARIETY OF GRAPPLING SYSTEMS INCLUDING INDONESIAN, JAPANESE, AND CHINESE SYSTEMS.

A LIFELONG BUDDHIST WITH STUDIES IN ZEN, TENDAI SHU, AND SHUGENDO, MR. RAY IS A FULLY ORDAINED TIBETAN TANTRIC BUDDHIST NGAKPA YOGI.

HIS GRADES INCLUDE:

JISSENKAN NINPO BUGEI RENMEI FOUNDER/KANCHO
BUJINKAN BUDO TAIJUTSU 10TH DEGREE SHIDOSHI/SHIHAN
GYOKKO RYU KOSSHIJITSU SHODEN MENKYO
KOTO RYU KOPPOJUTSU SHODEN MENKYO
SHINDEN FUDO RYU DAKENTAIJUTSU SHODEN MENKYO
GENBUKAN NINPO BUGEI SHODAN
KOKUSAI JUJUTSU RENMEI, BIKENJUTSU, BOJUTSU (VARIOUS)
JUN FAN JKD GRAPPLING ASSOCIATION APPRENTICE INSTRUCTOR
COMBAT SUBMISSION WRESTLING STUDENT LEVEL 4
DOG BROTHERS MARTIAL ARTS YELLOW TAG
SHAOLIN KUNG FU BLACK SASH
HUNG GAR KUNG FU BROWN SASH
TAI CHI BLACK SASH
WING CHUN KUNG FU BLACK SASH
QI GONG INSTRUCTOR
TAE KWON DO BROWN BELT
KAJUKENPO BROWN BELT
JUDO BROWN BELT

BOUNCER FROM 1988-2016
FORMER CORRECTION OFFICER AT THE CUYAHOGA COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT FOR 3 YEAERS
ARMED/UNARMED SECURITY FOR 10 YEARS
CERTIFIED WARRIOR FITNESS COACH

BRANDON RYAN – BIOGRAPHY COMING SOON

ROBERT RYAN – BIOGRAPHY COMING SOON

ATTICUS TODD – ATTICUS TODD IS A MEMBER OF THE DDT BOARD – BIOGRAPHY COMING SOON

AJ VAIMAN

BEGAN HIS MARTIAL ARTS TRAINING AT THE INOSANTO ACADEMY IN 2019. AT AGE 13 HE INITIALLY STARTED IN THE LITTLE DRAGONS CLASS. HE ALSO TOOK UP PRIVATE LESSONS WITH SIFU TIM BECHERER. WHEN HE TURNED 14 HE MOVED INTO THE ADULT CLASSES AT THE INOSANTO ACADEMY AS WELL AS CONTINUING WITH THE LITTLE DRAGONS CLASS.

EVENTUALLY HE WAS TRAINING 5 TO 6 DAYS PER WEEK IN JKD, FMA, SILAT, MUAY THAI, AND BJJ AS WELL AS HELPING THE KIDS CLASS. IN 2023 HE RECIEVED HIS INSTRUCTOR CREDENTIALS IN JKD AND FMA FROM GURO DAN INOSANTO AS WELL AS BECOMING AN INSTRUCTOR IN DDT MARTIAL ARTS.

HE ALSO RECENTLY STARTED WORKING AS AN ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR IN THE UCLA MARTIAL ARTS PROGRAMS. IN EARLY 2025 HE RECIEVED HIS INSTRUCTOR CREDENTIALS IN THUT TI LETHWEI FROM SAYA WIN ZIN OO.

NATASHA VAIMAN

BEGAN HER STUDIES AT THE INOSANTO ACADEMY OF MARTIAL ARTS IN 2019 AS A PRIVATE STUDENT OF TIM BECHERER. AFTER A SHORT TIME SHE BEGAN TAKING GROUP CLASSES AND FOUND HER LOVE FOR MARTIAL ARTS TRAINING A DEDICATED STUDENT, SHE CONTINUED WITH TRAINING 5-6 DAYS PER WEEK AND PRIVATE LESSONS AS WELL.

IN 2023 SHE RECEIVED HER INSTRUCTORSHIP CREDENTIALS FROM TIM BECHERER IN DDT MARTIAL ARTS AND GURO DAN INOSANTO IN JKD/JUN FAN MARTIAL ARTS AND THE FILIPINO MARTIAL ARTS. IN 2025 SHE ALSO RECEIVED HER INSTRUCTOR CREDENTIALS IN THUT TI LETHEI FROM SAYA WIN ZIN OO.