Ron Suggs

• Taught Martial Arts In Asia For Six Years
• Stationed In Guam, Japan, and Korea
• Team Head Coach 1981 U.S. Military Team 1st International Friendship Karate-do Tournament 
Budokan, Tokyo, Japan
• Unarmed Self-Defense Instructor – Military Law Enforcement Personnel Asia
• Taekwondo Instructor Naval Air Station Miramar, San Diego
• Letter of Appreciation for meritorious service from Republic of Korea
• Graduate U.S. Military Police School, Ft. McClellan, Alabama
• California Regional Coordinator for The U S. Navy Taekwondo Union
• Gold Patron Life Member U.S. Judo Association
• Member Organizing Committee for the 13th United States National Taekwondo Championships and the United States Judo Association Junior Nationals
• Appointed as President of American Hapkido Hurk Choo Kwan Association by Grandmaster Jin Bok Moon and Grandmaster Jin Jong Moon
• Chairman of medical committee for the 13th United States National Taekwondo 
(USTU) Championships and the U.S.J.A. Junior Nationals
• Letter of Appreciation from Korean Cultural Service for authoring book on Self Defense
• Hosted Korean Judo College National Hapkido Demonstration Team in San Diego in 1987
• Referee for 15th United States National Taekwondo Championships
• Chairman of medical committee for the 17th United States National Taekwondo Championships
• Selected as Taekwondo Chairman of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States in Oregon and Southwest Washington
• 1985 Navy South Pacific Heavyweight Judo Champion

• Received award from the Korea Taekwondo Ji Do Kwan for the development of Taekwondo in the United States

Further Points of Interest

• On the 5th of June 1988, Ronald R. Suggs was appointed ‘Master’ by the father of JiDoKwan, Supreme Grandmaster Lee ChongWoo.

• The 4th of October 1993, the current President of JiDoKwan in Korea, Supreme Grandmaster Lee Sung Wan, awarded Grandmaster Suggs a prestigious ‘Certificate of Merit’ for “furthering the spirit of JiDoKwan in America”.

• January 2007 – promoted to 8th Dan by the Taekwondo JiDoKwan in Korea making him one of the highest-ranking non-Korean members of this body in the world.

• Considered by many to be the father of JiDoKwan in America.

• Founder of the American Taekwondo JiDoKwan Association.

• Certified as an International Referee (IR) by the World Taekwondo Federation 1989

• Registered 8th Dan Black Belt by the Kukkiwon, World Taekwondo Headquarters, Seoul, Korea

• Registered 8th Dan Black Belt in hapkido by the Korean Kido Federation, World Headquarters, Seoul, Korea
• Registered 3rd Dan Black Belt with Kodokan, Tokyo, Japan
• Registered 4th Dan Black Belt with United States Judo Association

PacMAC Instructor –  2011, 2012