Primary Interest: Warrior Studies

Expertise: Conflict Resolution (Aggressive)

2nd Degree Black Belt Hapkido
3rd Degree Black Belt Kenpo Karate
4th Degree Black Belt Goshin Jujitsu

22 Years over all experience; 16 years experience teaching.
Current Area of Focus: Tai Chi, Defensive Tactics

Secondary Interest: Communications
Expertise: Conflict Resolution (Passive)

8 years experience in Communications Intelligence
2 years experience in Security/Repossessions
Note: Assisted with over 50 repossessions, deescalating tense situations.

My name is Doug Turner, Jr. I have 22 years experience in the martial arts with a 2nd Degree Black Belt in Hapkido (1996), 3rd Degree Degree Black Belt in Kenpo Karate (1998), 4th Degree Black Belt in Goshin Jujitsu (2002). I've also trained extensively in Goju-Ryu Karate, Tang Soo Do and Shorinji Kempo. I began teaching at the age of 13 and have now been an instructor for 16 years with a primary focus on realistic self-defense. I've created a martial arts organization and currently provide advice to another. Currently I'm developing a new curriculum for my students as well as working towards certification as a Tai Chi instructor. Outside of physical training, I've continued studying intellectually reading hundreds of books on flexibility, health and nutrition, and martial philosophy and psychology.

After studying FBI statistics that suggested that the majority of people are assaulted by individuals that they where acquainted with stemming from arguments over money or possessions, I realized that the common training methods were misguided at worst and incomplete at best. To fill the gap, I've been focusing on skills such as leadership, communication and passive conflict resolution to provide students with the skill to be able to deal with conflict in a constructive manner so that they can walk away from the incident without a strike being thrown. I'm currently working on studying to develop myself into a well rounded conflict resolution expert instead of only aggressive resolutions to conflict. Thankfully my 8 years with military intelligence and my work in repossessions gave me invaluable experience that I didn't realize I had.

A secondary interest that I have is in healing. My Goju-Ryu instructor had a habit of saying "If you learn to kill, you should learn to heal." He provided a single lesson in Shiatsu massage and though I didn't learn much, the principle stuck with me. I've been certified in First Aid and CPR twice, I've read books on Shiatsu Massage, and am mostly interested in Herbalism in particular as a means of healing.

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Doug Turner

Education and Certifications:

1996 Addison Central High School Regents Diploma
1996 2nd Degree Black Belt Hapkido Certificiation
1997 USAF Training Command Apprentice Intelligence Diploma
1998 3rd Degree Black Belt Kenpo Karate Certification
1999 USAF Training Command Journeyman Intelligence Diploma
2002 4th Degree Black Belt Goshin-Jujitsu Certification

Work Experience

1996-2000 USAF Intelligence
Utilized state of the art computer software to analyze and process information and disseminate customized intelligence reports and briefs to various national and international level customers. I established and maintained systematic intelligence records and files. I received and processed various reports and messages, determined their significance and reliability, and reported on them as necessary. I assembled, consolidated, edited and proofread intelligence reports to create usable intelligence for the war-fighter. I assisted in the training of new intelligence personnel.

NOTE: Scored the highest score ever on the test to receive Journeyman Certification. Was awarded a 3-day time off award.

NOTE: Presented with the National Security Agency’s M Group coin and a time off award for writing technical reports that were used by the war-fighters supporting the Persian Gulf No-Fly Zone to better understand foreign communication practices.

2000-2001 University of North Carolina, Security Guard
I performed routine patrols and building checks in order to provide a uniformed presence to deter crime. I coordinated with local law enforcement via short range radio to record and report suspicious activity. I provided escort to personally assure the safety of individuals leaving and entering the facilities under my watch.

2001-2004 Department of Defense Intelligence
I served as a subject matter expert, training, mentoring and guiding a team of 15 Intelligence Agents. I performed research, fieldwork and analysis to determine the function, location and status of facilities of interest. I worked with various national level customers to answer questions and concerns. I worked with team leaders to ensure that the most correct and complete intelligence was provided to the war-fighter.

NOTE: Received National Ground Intelligence Center’s Commander’s Trophy Award for exceptional performance in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

2004-2006 Self Employed Writer
I performed research and analysis on martial arts techniques in order to write a manual providing an in depth look at American Kenpo Karate's first level of study. The purpose of the book was the provide the reader with an understanding of why techniques were taught instead of just how. It also introduced the concept of transmutation in which the technique's motion could be transmuted for multiple functions.

In addition I served as editor and writer for the World Dragon Kenpo Association's newsletter "The Slayer News."

2006-2007 Turner Towing Service Assistant
I worked as an agent of various banks to locate and repossess vehicles whose payments were over due. This often involved doing research and investigation to discover the location of the owner and vehicle and verbally deescalating situations where the owner was angry about their vehicle being repossessed.

2007-Present Turner Learning center Tutor
I design and develop a Christian oriented curriculum and projects for a special needs student and work with him as needed to ensure that he gets the education that he needs.

Jedi Training: Martial Arts

1985-1993 Solo Study
When I was seven years old I had already changed schools four times and was constantly bullied as a new kid on the block. Too proud to take the issue to anyone in a position of authority, I did what any nerd would do and went to the library. I checked out every book that I could find on the martial arts, boxing, wrestling and even gymnastics. I took a special liking to Bruce Tegner's Complete Book of Self-Defense, Complete Book Jujitsu, and Judo: Beginner to Black Belt as well as a book Stephen K. Hayes. I studied these volumes carefully and began practicing in private as much as I could. I also had a neighbor that claimed to have been a Green Beret in Vietnam who taught me a little bit when I would catch wild ducks for him.

When I was 13 I was attacked by a fellow student for a misunderstanding and managed to hold my own even though he was much larger. Realizing that I was less ready than I thought, I began to train incessantly. I no longer cared about training in private and that mixed with the fact that I had defended myself against a much larger assailant, several school mates asked to train with me and I began teaching a small group.

1993-1996 Goju-Ryu Karate
I moved to New York when I was 15 and immediately began training in the park. Soon after, I drew a crowd and was again teaching a small group of students. My father saw my interest in the martial arts and because he had trained in Judo, Tae Kwon Do and Kung-Fu as a teenager and was a Brown Belt in one of those he decided to teach me. After one lesson he realized that I knew more than he did and scraped up the money so that I could take lessons in a traditional manner.

The instructor taught a mix of Goju-Ryu Karate, Goshin Jujitsu, Arnis and Kenpo Karate. His belief was that Goju meant hard and soft and so any martial art could be considered part of Goju-Ryu. I trained 2 or 3 hours, three days of the week in class and taught in the park before that class. At this time I was spending at least 6 hours everyday in martial training. I received my Green Belt (6th Kyu) on June 26, 1996 .. my 18th Birthday and a few weeks prior to shipping out to Air Force Basic Training.

1996-1997 Hapkido
After basic training was complete and I was in technical training, I quickly discovered that the base gym offered both Aikido and Hapkido. I immediately signed up for both. I quickly found Aikido to be extremely challenging and impossible for me to continue because the kneeling techniques required me to put my feet in a certain position. Unfortunately a childhood injury split the soles of both my feet open and the muscles would seize up causing me a great deal of pain. I unfortunately had to quit. However, I found that I excelled at Hapkido. Much of what was taught I had learned in previous years. My instructor loaned me a book that contained the entire curriculum and asked me to memorize as much as I could. I studied with him and on my own for four months when he announced that he was being sent on a temporary duty assignment. He promoted me to 2nd Degree Black Belt and left me in charge of the class even though the class had only two other students. Those two never showed up to classes that I taught, But I quickly built the class up to 5 students over the next month. I was then shipped to my first duty assignment.

1997-2000 Kenpo, Kempo and Tang Soo Do
Immediately upon arriving at my first duty assignment I was placed on a rotating shift. This didn't bode well for my martial arts experience so I went back to training on my own on the tennis court outside my barracks. I learned about a Kenpo program and got involved with it and found that it was almost exactly what I had been taught in my previous years and I rapidly moved through the ranks.

In late 1997 it was announced that a class would start up in the building where I worked. I immediately signed up for Shorinji Kempo. Unfortunately the organization that the instructor belonged to had rules that required him to have 10 students before he was allowed to promote anyone. Because of the closed nature of an intelligence facility, he was never able to get enough students and so even after training with him for 2 years, I remained a white belt.

In 1998 I received my 3rd Degree Black Belt in Kenpo and was moved from a rotating shift to a morning shift. With that stability, I went and signed up for private lessons in Tang Soo Do. Tang Soo Do was exactly like Goju-Ryu Karate except for a lot of minor differences. I quickly rose to 4th Kyu in Tang Soo Do and was scheduled to test for my black belt when I suffered a knee injury and had to quit lessons.

In 1999 my Shorinji Kempo instructor had to quit due to personal reasons and so I took over the class teaching Kenpo Karate. Within a couple months I was running a class of over 10 students and invited him back, but he decided not to return and continued to leave me in charge. After suffering a knee injury I devoted all of my effort to teaching this class until I left the military in June of 2000.

Shortly after leaving the military I discovered the founder of the Kenpo organization was no longer interested in being the head and was shutting the organization down. I gathered together 10 Black Belts and created a board and a new Organization to fill in it's place and was temporarily (and still to a few hold outs who are loyal) considered the leader/Grand Master of that Kenpo system.

2000-2001 Kyokushin Karate
After leaving the military I began training in Jujitsu, which again was mostly a repeat of what I had learned in the previous classes. In December of 2000 I was accepted to attend a live in full contact martial arts facility that taught Kyokushin Karate called the Budo Karate house. The training was great, but the instructor was wishy washy. He had a strange habit of telling me to do one thing and then yell at me for doing it. I thrived in the training, but it felt that it wasn't the will of the force and so after testing and finding that to be true, I left after having spent three months there.

2001-Present
I went back home and continue my training in Jujitsu and Kenpo. I rejoined the organization that I had created even though it had taken a totally different direction than I intended. Over the years the organization dwindled and other organizations were created to take it's place. Since then I've continued teaching and studying other martial arts such as Western Martial Arts, Tai Chi/QiGong and Isreali Military Combatives