Staff

Jeremy Hrbek , Head Judo Coach
Jeremy's extensive background as a competitor and coach in Judo as well as folkstyle and freestyle wrestling makes every Judo class both fun and challenging. He is a certified Black Belt and Coach by both USJA and USJI.  His various personal Judo accomplishments include championships and placings in the American Canadian Judo Championships (AmCans).  He has coached numerous national and international champions and place winners as well as local, regional and state champions.  After decades as a personal trainer and Judo and wrestling competitor and coach, Jeremy can shape athletes for the highest level of Judo competition, while keeping the same enthusiasm for beginners and kids of all ages.

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Barry Burrows, Assistant Judo Coach
Barry is a 28-year resident of Grass Valley with over 50 years of Judo experience.
He is originally from the UK and is a member of BJA, AJA (UK) Kodokan Japan and Singapore.
He holds the Judo rank of Sandan (3rd degree black belt).

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Master Lu Shirfu , Gung Fu, Kun Tao and Yang style Tai Chi Instructor
Master Lu has studied the martial arts for forty years.  He holds black belt rankings in WuShu/Kung Fu (4th degree), Chinese Gung Fu (4th degree), Shotokan Karate (2nd degree) and Kendo (1st degree).  He is most pleased to hold the distinguished title of Master, granted by Grand Master Aurthur Sikes (trained by Great Grand Master Willem Reeders, known as Liu Seong by the World Kung Fu Federation). He used all this extensive expertise on the television series, "Nowhere Man" where Lu Shirfu also performed on camera.  Profiled in "Self Defense Magazine", Master Lu reveals his greatest wish; to share all styles of the arts & sciences with others.

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Jake Dabis , Kenpo Karate Instructor

Sensei Jake Dabis holds a third degree black belt in the art of Kenpo Karate and a brown belt in Judo. Born in the territory of Hawaii, he has been surrounded by Martial Arts his whole life. He began his study of Kenpo Karate in 1966 and has been a Kenpo Karate instructor in Nevada County since 1972.

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Jay Perry, Perry's Full Circle Head Instructor

Mr. Perry is the Master Instructor and co-founder of Perry’s Full Circle. Mr. Perry has Twenty-seven years experience in the Martial Arts and is currently ranked 6th degree Black Belt in Perry’s Full Circle System. Mr. Perry has 16 years teaching his style throughout Grass Valley, Nevada City, Penn Valley, Camptonville, and now in Marysville. He has 24 years experience working with kids and Sixteen years hands on child psychology. Mr. Perry was inducted in the Hawaii Martial Arts Society as Instructor of the Year 2002 and another Pioneer Award in 2003. Mr. Perry also has students that have gone Professional in Cage fighting and some who have qualified for Olympic trials in Judo and others fighting across the U.S. in various styles of Martial arts (Judo, Point Karate, Kickboxing, Grappling, Sports Ju-Jitsu, Pankration and Full Contact No-Holds-Bar.) Mr. Perry is trained in CPR, First Aid and P.A.R.T. (Preventive Assault Restraint Training.) Throughout his years, he has been involved in various activities such as swimming instructor, wrestling coach, detention center counselor, volunteer summer camp counselor, Nevada City School of the Arts self-defense teacher. Mr. Perry travels around the world conducting and assisting demonstrations and seminars with his instructor and father every year, sometimes bringing his students to enjoy the glory. He believes that some people come into martial arts to learn self-defense, build confidence or just to get back into shape. If he can help anyone learn through training or advice he feels that he is fulfilling his life’s purpose. He believes self-discipline and focus on personal skills are important steps for students as they continue on to become winners in the game of life.

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Frederick Harriman , Assistant Judo Coach

 

Fred began Judo in 1975 at the Manson Judo Club in Buffalo NY under the teaching of Seisuke Kawakubo. He taught Judo to the students of the Calasanctius School in Buffalo where he was also teaching Spanish and History. In 1977, Fred went to Hamamatsu (Shizuoka, Japan) and practiced at the Yoshinkan Judo Club and later on at Koto High School. He passed his shodan exam in 1979 in Hamamatsu, and having passed by an authorized body in Japan, the certificate is from The Kodokan.

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Abigail Beck , Assistant Judo Coach
Abigail has a background in various martial arts but found her calling in Judo under Jeremy Hrbek's coaching. Currently a Sankyu, she is on the National Roster and won the 2009 National Brown Belt Championships.  She is a certified Assistant Coach through USJA, a certified massage therapist, Reiki practitioner and PSYCH-K® Facilitator.

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Eric Kenyon , RKC, Personal Trainer
Eric has been training dancers, martial artists, soccer players, powerlifters, personal trainers, and regular folks in the Bay Area since 1999. He draws on a lifetime of competing in a variety of sports, an uncommonly active stretch in the US Army, and nearly a decade of study focused on Soviet sports science. The past four years have been dedicated to kettlebells and the comprehensive continuum of full body attention that goes along with RKC kettlebell instruction: pneumo-muscular stretching, joint mobility, power breathing, and correct body alignment.

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