Vladimir Soroka

7th degree Black Belt (Shichidan)
Chief Instructor, Your Best Defense Martial Arts Center and Three Streams Aikibudo

Contact: Vlad@TheSilentMind.com or vssensei@hotmail.com

Biographical Information:

Started in Martial Arts in 1968, serious regular training in Aiki Ju-Jutsu since 1970.  Teaching adults and children for more than 30 years.

Ranks

  • Menkyo Shihan, Shichidan in Aiki-Bujutsu
  • Menkyo Shihan, Rokudan in Yawara Ryu Aiki-Ju-Jitsu
  • Menkyo Shihan, Rokudan in Goshin Aiki Jujutsu
  • Sandan in Minna Jiu-Jitsu
  • Sho-Dan in Shotokan Karate.
  • Certified by International Combat Jujitsu Union ICMUA as an International Instructor and International Examiner.
  • Awarded Official Teaching License by Martial Arts Masters World Federation (MAMWF) and American Federation of JuJitsu (AFJ) of the U.S.A.
  • Awarded Teacher’s Diploma, Renshi Instructors License by Kamishin-Kai International and Samurai Jujutsu Association International, approved by Hanshi Siegfried Boedeker and Menkyo Shihan Frank N. Newton.
  • Certified Full Instructor of Valencia Lameco Escrima (view certificate).

Personal Mentors

  • Antonino Certa, Shihan, of Nihon Daito Ryu Aikibudo Daitokai, Head of the European Daito-Ryu Aikibudo Daitokai
  • Siegfrid Boedeker, Hanshi, of Nippon Yawara Ryu Aiki-Ju-Jitsu Renmei, Kamishin-Kai International
  • Felix Valencia, Guru, LAMECO Escrima

Affiliations

  • Member of International Association EUROPEAN DAITO RYU AIKIBUDO DAITOKAI
  • Member of Aikido Instructors Organization.
  • Lifetime Member of Martial Arts Masters World Federation
  • Member American Federation of JuJitsu (AFJ) of the U.S.A.
  • Lifetime Member of International Combat Jujitsu Union ICMUA
  • Lifetime Member of Independent Martial Arts Federation (IMAF)
  • Lifetime Member of NYRAJJR (Nippon Yawara Ryu Aiki-Ju-Jitsu Renmei)
  • Member of European Samurai Ju-Jitsu / Aiki Society
  • Was a personal student of Sensei Elliot Freeman for the 14 years

Member of the World Martial Arts Hall of Fame
Recipient of Gold Life Achievement Award (inducted 1999)