Sabumnim Edward Ricciuti- Holds a 4th degree black belt in Combat Hapkido, level 5 in Jun Fan Gung Fu/Jeet Kune Do, held two welterweight boxing championships, and was the best boxer 1957 at University of Notre Dame. He studies Black Dragon Kung Fu and Tai Chi, is a cofounder and president of GHMA and a Senior Instructor in hapkido.
GHMA Senior Instructors
Sifu/Sabumnim John Himmelman- Holds a 4th degree black belt in Combat Hapkido, in which he is a Senior Instructor. He holds a Black Sash in Jun Fan Gung Fu/Jeet Kune Do, in which he is a certified instructor, and a Level 1 in Filipino Martial Arts. He is a co-founder of GHMA, and past president. He serves on the GHMA board of directors.
Sifu Sean Gallimore ran our JKD curriculum for 10 years, before relocating. Much of what we continue to teach came from him.
Our JKD teaching certification comes from Sifu Raffi Derderian of the Derderian Academy of Martial Arts. He is a man of many titles and accomplishments - in JKD, Shinko-Ryu Kempo, Uechi-ryu, Filipino Martial Arts, Oki-Ryu Kenpo... just visit his website.
Sifu Karl Neumann- runs our Jun Fan Gung Fu/Jeet Kune Do program. He holds a Black Sash (black belt) In Jun Fan Gung Fu/Jeet Kune Do, in which he is a certified instructor, and a Level 2 in Filipino Martial Arts. He serves on the GHMA board of directors. His two sons, Kiefer and Kyle have earned 2nd dan blackbelts in Combat Hapkido in our school.
Mr. Brian Vecchitto has been training in Combat Hapkido since 2012 and holds a 2nd dan black belt in the art. He is a full instructor in the system and teaches Combat Hapkido on Thursday nights.
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Paul Dykas was an auxiliary instructor at our school for several years. After earning his orange belt in hapkido, he decided he just wanted to train and learn for the joy of it. His black belt in Uechi Ryu and training in hapkido made him a valuable asset to our school and his students. Sadly, we lost him to cancer in 2017, but we still practice what we learned from him.
Sabumnim David Townson is a cofounder of our school and ran our Saturday hapkido classes for many years. Sadly for us, he moved out of CT in 2020, but we are fortunate to still have him involved on our board.
GHMA Full Instructors
Mr. Ben Murdy holds a brown belt in Ichkyo Jiu Jitsu and is a certified instructor in Combat Hapkido , in which he has trained since 2015. He teaches our Saturday multidiscipline martial arts classes and also trains in Jeet Kune Do.
GHMA Instructors
Mr. Cory Brassard has been training in Jeet Kune Do since 2015 and is a certified Apprentice Instructor in the system.
