A veteran martial arts practitioner, Rod Sacharnoski leads Juko-Kai International, located in Flower Mound, Texas, as president, founder, and head of family. With a history extending to the early 1960s, the martial arts organization is among America’s oldest and functions as the International Okinawan Martial Arts Union’s Western headquarters. Dai-Soke Rod Sacharnoski has attained an Asian recognized 10th Dan Sokeship (foundership) of his arts identified as Juko-ryu Bujutsu.
Rod Sacharnoski has authored two books in his area of expertise and has been featured as a martial arts demonstrator on numerous nationally broadcast television programs. His responsibilities with Juko-Kai International include administrative oversight and developing the organization’s training standards at a level consistent with an international martial arts association.
A longtime law enforcement officer, Rod Sacharnoski possesses a military background that includes honorable service with the United States Army and United States Marine Corps, as well as the New Jersey National Guard. He has conducted training in police defensive tactics with a number of law enforcement agencies across the United States. In his free time, Mr. Sacharnoski enjoys reading historical works that cover diverse aspects of Asian martial arts.
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The president and founder of Juko-Kai International, Rod Sacharnoski has also served honorably with the U.S. Marines, U.S. Army, trained police agencies/personnel, and appeared in various martial arts publications. Rod currently maintains membership with a number of professional organizations.
He has performed Combat Ki demonstrations on more than 23 major television networks. In the year of 1988 he trained the Dallas Cowboys Football Team in his highly acclaimed internal energy methods.
In 1974 Rod and his students gave the first Combat Ki demonstration at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The event was televised on ABCs Wide World of Sports. In 1977, he co-starred in Buckstone County Prison which was filmed at E.O. Motion Picture Studios in Shelby, N.C. This was the first known time that an actor (Rod Sacharnoski) accepted a full-power knife hand strike to the relaxed adams apple in the history of the motion pictures.