He is among a select number of Westerners who hold authentic Japanese credentials in koryū martial arts.
He is the first non-Japanese person who has received the top-rank of menkyo kaiden in Enshin-ryū Iaijutsu, suemonogiri, kenpō, and yawara-jutsu.
Today, Mol lives with his family in Belgium, where he is a writer and teacher of classical martial arts.
Guy Buyens (Hontai Yōshin-ryū) and Dr. Carl De Crée (Tenjin Shin’yō-ryū of the Inoue Keitarō-lineage and Owari-ha Yagyū Shinkage-ryū).
[7] Mol still regularly travels to Japan to find new sources to underpin his continuing research into the ancient Japanese martial culture.