Taky Kimura

[7] Emerging from the internment camp after World War II, Kimura found himself to be downtrodden, broken down and lacking motivation.

[8] In his mid-thirties, during the year 1959, Kimura met a young, rising 18-year-old martial arts genius named Bruce Lee.

Even before Lee opened his first Jun Fan Gung Fu institute in 1960, Kimura was a part of his first students in the US, among them Jesse Glover, James DeMile, Ed Hart, Skipp Ellsworth and LeRoy Garcia.

Kimura was one of only three individuals to be personally certified by Lee to teach his martial arts, which include Jun Fan Gung Fu and Jeet Kune Do.

After Kimura was certified, he was allowed to teach small classes under the mantra of "keep the numbers low, but the quality high".

[10] Andy Kimura, Abe Santos, and Mike Hilow still teach Jun Fan Gung-Fu in the Seattle area.