Sigung Claro Austria Ch'uan-fa Instructors Name: Professor Terry Faircloth System: FCM Ch'uan-fa Kajukenbo BIO: Claro Austria is a 6th Degree Black Belt under Sifu Terry Faircloth of the Faircloth’s Method of Kajukenbo . He has been training for over twenty-seven years in the Martial Arts. He started studying with Sifu Faircloth in 1985 and he became the second student to be awarded a black belt. Soon after his promotion in 1988, he began teaching at a local health club in Federal Way, Washington. A year later, he became a full-time assistant teacher to Sifu Faircloth at the Academy of Martial Arts and later to the Progressive Fighting Arts. When he was a teen, he was Sifu’s Faircloth’s top student in competition and was one of the top competitors in the Kata & Weapons Division in the Northwest Regional Karate/Kung-fu Tournaments. His students were also some of the top competitors in the Junior Kata and Kumite Division in the region. After graduating from the University of Washington in 1995, he moved to Toyama Prefecture, Japan and taught English and began his study of Aikido. He received a Black Belt from Ryuiji Sakamoto Sensei, a young Shihan, teaching Aikido at a small town in Kosugi. He has since been dedicating thirteen years of his life studying Aikido and continues his research and training in the Internal Martial Arts. He also has experience in Wrestling , Arnis, Karate, and Daitoryu Aikijujitsu. Through Sifu Faircloth’s sponsorship, he had been able to train with such greats as Sifu Al Dacascos and Sifu Eric Lee. He continues to teach his expression of Kajukenbo and has recently promoted his long-time student of 20 years, Joseph Witt, to 3rd Degree Black Belt. Claro currently lives in New York City, and he has been given the responsibility of advancing and promoting students in Sifu Faircloth’s Kajukenbo Family Tree. He can be contacted at claroaustria@hotmail.com.