Martial Arts Resume

GRAND MASTER McLeod started martial arts in the early “60’s” studying Ju Jitsu. While attending the Army and Navy Academy and he began his studies in Tang So Do.  In 1966 he began his training with Tracy’s Kenpo Karate at their head quarters in San Jose, California.  Receiving his 1^st degree black belt in 1971 from Tracy’s the largest Kenpo organization in the world, and while attending San Jose State University of California, he was on the Varsity Judo Team for Years he continued his martial arts training. He opened his first martial arts school in 1971 in Santa Cruz, California and then opened up a chain of schools and crime fighting organization in the Monterey Bay Area

BLACK BELT HONOR AND RANKS

1^ST Degree Black Belt           1971 Tracy’s Kenpo Karate

2^nd Degree Black Belt           1974 Kenpo Karate

3^rd Degree Black Belt           1977 Kenpo Karate

3^rd Degree Black Belt           1980 I.K.K.A Grand Master Ed Parker (1^st Generation)

4^th Degree Black Belt            1983 Kenpo Karate

 MASTER RANKS

5^TH Degree Black Belt          1985 Limalama – Great Grand Master Tuiolosega

6^th Degree Black Belt             1989 Kenpo & Limalama Yen Ch’ing Tao

 PROFESSOR RANKS

7^th Degree Black Belt            1996 Limalama – Great Grand Master Tino Tuiolosega

7^th Degree Black Belt            1999 Tracy’s Kenpo Great Grand Master Al Tracy

7^th Degree Black Belt            1991 Yen Ch’ing Tao

8^th Degree Black Belt            1994 Yen Ch’ing Tao

8^th Degree Black Belt            1999 Limalama Great Grand Master Tino Tuiolosega

8^th Degree Black Belt            2005 Tracy’s Kenpo Karate Grand Master Al Tracy

GRAND MASTER RANKS

9^th Degree Black Belt       1998 Yen Ch’ing Tao Master Association + Great Grand Master Tuiolosega

10 Degree Black Belt       2001 Yen Ch’ing Tao Associates of Masters  

Weapons Grand Master McLeod Taught and Studied over 40 Years

Shooting           Rifles at the Age of 8 - Sharp Shooter at the age of 14 3rd Level from Army and Navy Academy: Grand Master also learned how to shoot handguns, revolvers took a course at Cabrillo College and qualified for Hand Guns on Guard Card.  Also over a Year ago, he received his CCW, Concealed Weapons Permit in Nevada, which is good for ten other States with a Semi-Auto Glock 19 that holds 15 rounds.  He is considered an expert shooter, and a Master in Self-Defense in disarming attackers with Guns, Knives, Clubs, and other weapons, and has taught many Police Officers, Security Officers, and High Military Officers, primary from Fort Ord in Monterey in the 70's.

Knives             Grand Master McLeod primary learned how to use how to fight with a Knife from Great Grand Master Ed Parker the founder of American Kenpo and the "Parker Knife", and Daggers from Great Grand Master Sifu Wing Lam from China.  He is also an Master in Self-Defense after 40 years of learning methods to disarm these weapons.  He also is an expert knife thrower, as well as other martial art weapons that are used as projectiles.

Some of the other Weapons Grand Master McLeod is an Expert in after 30 years of Studying and Teaching them.

•   Chinese Staff   - Eye Brow Height

•   Chinese Staff  - Hung Gar Long Staff

•   Several Other Staffs From Sifu Wing Lam

•   Kenpo Staff

•   Chinese Spear from Sifu Wing Lam and Tracy's

•   Three Sectional Staff

•   Chain Whip

•   Kwon Do Long Sword

•   Double Edge Sword

•   Nunchaku

•   Tonfas

•   Parker Knife, and other Knife tactics From Grand Master ED Parker

•   Canes, Three Levels of Street Cane, Four Levels of Kenpo Cane - Including Master Cane - and Handi-Cane with four levels, also Grand Master Robert Figg not only help with the theories, concepts, ideas, but also videoed many of these "Canes" methods, as Grand Master Ed Parker did when he helped Grand Master McLeod develop the Kenpo Cane in 1980 with his ideas how Kenpo and the Cane work together, and be married to each other if done correctly.

•   Belt Tactics from Grand Master Yamashita and Tracy's

•   Rope

•   Walking Sticks

•   Rifles - Was a Sharp Shooter at Army and Navy Academy in Carlsbad, California - " One of the Nation's Top Military Academy"

•   Hand-Guns, Semi-Autos and Revolvers - an expert shooter.

And about 50 non-traditional weapons, clothing you wear, rocks, shoes, and many other things that we will go into, you can even use a wallet and contents inside or a purse, such as set of keys, credit card, pen, pencil, notebook, briefcase, and probably another 100, you can use them in three ways, for Blocking, Throwing like a Projectile, and for Striking and for multi-usage.