
Niceville, Florida, United States
Josh has been training and studying martial arts for 20 years. He started training Jeet Kune Do and Kali under Sifu/Guro Burton Richardson in 2006.
Josh has been training under the Siangco Collective (Grandmaster Chris Siangco, Senior Master Chaz Siangco, Master Bo Siangco) in Pulahan Derobio Eskrima ( Pedoy Style Eskrima ) as well as Kajukenbo/Chinese Kenpo for 16 years. He is currently ranked as a 1st Level Pulahan Maestro (Full Instructor- Red Shirt) (3rd Degree Black Belt) in Pulahan Derobio Eskrima.
Josh is a Full Instructor under Team Vunak in Contemporary Jeet Kune Do. He has been training directly under Sifu Paul Vunak for the past 7 years.
He is a Blue Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Professor Barry Jenkins Sr and Professor Craig Stanton under Master Rickson Gracie’s Jiu Jitsu Global Federation.
Military Combatives: Josh was a former Air Force Special Operations( AFSOC) Combatives Instructor and Brown Belt in Marine Corps Martial Arts Program
Instructor experience: Josh has been teaching Derobio Eskrima and JKD for 7 years. He instructed at the former Martial Arts Combat Academy in Niceville and at the School of Combat Arts , he continues to teach private/semi private small group classes out of his home dojo. He was an AFSOC combatives instructor for 8 months teaching Air Force Special Operations Air Commandos.
Josh’s focus of teaching is for street self defense and for those conducting military operations that require lethal means of force.
He is currently working and developing a gun module curriculum that is an integrated system of gun, knife , and empty hand. Josh is a retired Navy Chief who served in the military as a Fleet Marine Force Corpsman with Marine Infantry and Marine Special Operations units with multiple combat deployments to include Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Philippines. He taught advanced shooting tactics as a Contract Instructor for AFSOC Air Commandos.