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Rossi, having received his 6th degree black belt in back in 1995 and having spent more time learning the Rossi Kuntao fighting method under the Grand Masters tutelage longer than any other student can make possibly make claim to. Ron right now is the highest legitimately ranking instructor under Mr. His death hit Ron and everyone else that knew Mr. This truly impressed Ron after going through all that, so without any hesitation, he joined The Rossi Academy of Self Defense and after that he maintained a very close relationship with his Kuntao instructor for the next 25 years until Mr. But never, at that time in his life came across anyone who could just move him around so easily and cause such excruciating pain with what looked like hardly any effort. Ron had grown up in a housing project much of his early life and had been in many types of street fights.

Rossi again sent him face down on the floor with excruciating pain coming from his arm again while having complete control over him. Ron put it on harder trying to bring him down to the ground.

This time assuming he could do it with more base and hold it much harder so to prevent such an easy escape this time. Not satisfied Ron asked if he could do it again.

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Ron put the headlock on this Kuntao master with full force and the next thing he knew was he was on the ground, head first with his face into the ground and pain coming from his shoulder, elbow and wrist with his fingers bent back all the way. Of course, Ron assumed this old man would have no chance of escaping especially since he had used it successfully in street fights previous to this encounter. The guy putting the headlock on looked like he wasn’t administering it with any kind of effort so Ron asked if he could put him in a real headlock. Rossi’s students was putting a headlock on him, then Mr. Ron said, when he went in to watch a class and he saw one of Mr. His name is Joe Rossi, who is now unfortunately deceased he was the Grand Master of a Filipino martial art called Kuntao. Toward the mid 70’s, Ron had met a man that would change his life forever.

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Nowadays of course, everyone knows that this isn’t exactly how to go about having a good punch or any type of strike. He also explained how he thought that one day he would have the punch from hell, believing this was the way to harden his hands and create a powerful punch. Ron gave explanation on how his teacher used to make him do knuckle push-ups on cement and then punch trees or the side of a brick building.

They would practice the Katas and point sparring, which was the way to practice their fighting in that particular style. His next door neighbor, who was a black belt in Tang Soo Do who claimed to get his instruction in Korea, gathered a few kids in the neighborhood and taught them right outside of his apartment. Ron’s first experience with martial arts was when he lived in an apartment complex going back between 1967- 69. If you are a past inductee and your name is not listed below or name is mispelled, please contact this office with name and year of induction and correction will be made promptly.About Ron Kosakowski, written by Mike Massatti Please Note: Because of our vast list of inductees, it is not uncommon to misspell or unknowingly leave a name out, and for this we sincerely apologize.