AUTHORIZED MBC TRAINERS
Many traditional martial arts practice “revisionist history”—selectively deleting specific individuals from their records for personal and political reasons. MBC purposely strives for greater transparency to allow people interested in the system to easily identify and verify legitimate sources of MBC training. To that end, the following is the complete list of all instructors and study group leaders who have ever been officially authorized to share MBC. Instructors claiming to teach MBC, CBC, or their related systems who are not included on this list have not been formally recognized or endorsed by MBC or Michael Janich.
Some people on this list, although fully authorized, do not actively teach MBC or have chosen not to keep their skills current. To find an instructor or study group leader near you who is actively sharing MBC and is maintaining an up-to-date skill set, please refer to the MBC Instructor Locator page of this web site.
Certified Instructors:
Thayne Alexander
James Allen
Wayde Allen
Tim Ball
Jeff Boss
Robert Boston
Adam Boyce
Thomas Cole
Robby Cook
Steven DeArmond
Christopher Doner
Marc Durant
Linden Evans
Ernest Flores
Jonathan Forsythe
Marc Galli
Uli Gebhard
Paul Harris
Seth Hendrickson
Eric Herzog
Scott Hugues
Paul Hunter
Keith Jennings
Eric Kaltenborn
Thomas Leake
Marty Lee
Bob Lemmons
Rhonda Lent
Vince Luke
Louis Massaro
Eric Mayes
Bryan McKean
Imri Morgenstern
Peter Oliveri, Jr.
Aaron Parr
Jesse Pollock
Kristopher Rhodes
Al Rieman
Michael Rigg
Tim Romanik
Steven Schneider
Fionn Sheerin
Alex Sholomisky
Jim Stolz
Kevin Vasconcellos
Rick Wallace
Jimmie Wessell
Matt Zavakos
Associate Instructors/Recipients of Certificates of Proficiency:
Robin Allen
David Bain
Todd Baldridge
Brooks Betts
Marc Bonar
Kieran Britt
Tim Broderick, Jr.
Andrew Carpinelli
Jason Child
Kaeli Clark
Dave Cooley
Nicolas Daugeron
Andy Feltovich
Rich Fitzgerald
Robert Fox
Benjamin R. Geary
Brandon Gilbert
Kurt Golgart
Mark Gridley
Harold Hamilton
Erik Haw
Jon High
Chris Hildreth
David Holloway
Tyler J. Irvine
Don Jones
Andy Keyworth
Harold Kramer
Cath Lauria
Damian Lauria
Howard LaVine
Wolf Lightning
David Mayo
Keith E. McDonald
Jeff Norman
Patrick Nyffeler
Jonathan Old Horse
Robert Palleschi
Trevor Park
Rocky Patel
Gene Potocki
Lawrence Pritchard
Giovanni Purpura
Dan Rheaume
Michael Savage
Hauke Schulz
Keiichiro Shiraishi
Jeremy Shive
Katie Smith
Wayne Smith
Karl Swass
Edward Swiatek
Chip Szyfer
David Vasconcellos
James Vise
Alex Voisard
Patrick Welch
Dariel Williams
Jessica M. Wilson
Jonathan Yurco
Mickey Yurco
Affiliate Instructors
The following Affiliate Instructors of MBC—many already talented instructors of other martial disciplines—have demonstrated an exceptional understanding of the MBC system and have earned my trust to share the MBC and guide others in their training. Some, as noted, have also passed rigorous physical testing to earn Certificates of Proficiency.
Brian Ambros
Rebecca Anderson
Thomas Barth
Calvin Blanchard
Josef Borbas
Sean Carter
Michael Chamberland
Mike Christensen
Francois Daneau
Ron Dial
Murad El Massry (Certificate of Proficiency)
Douglas Farmer
Jay Fujimoto
Daniel Galich
Christopher Hall
Daniel E. Hasbrouck
Naohiro “Hiro” Hayashi
Tamara Heller
D. Thane Jensen
Tetsuya Kamioka
John Kline
Damon Lusky
Christian Maine
Dell Manantan
Christian Mikula
Gemez Norwood
Leonard Ochart (Certificate of Proficiency)
Casey Paiz (Certificate of Proficiency)
Treyson Ptak
Alan Purpura
Jonghwan Rhee
Charles Rives
Jack Roman
Mirko Ruggeri
Mario Santizo
Wolfgang Seidel
Walt Spinrad (Certificate of Proficiency)
Horst-Dieter Stadler
Robert Turnage
Blaine Vachon
Dan Vigil
Eric Vinson
James Wilson
Michael Wolhfert
Patrick Wolfe (Certificate of Proficiency)
Study Group Leaders
Study Group leaders are advanced students of MBC who have demonstrated an exceptional understanding of the MBC system and have earned my trust. They guide the training of other aspiring MBC practitioners through study groups and are an excellent source of information and training opportunities in the MBC system.
Mark Anthony
David Beger
Jason Bergemann
Blue Buchanan
Jason Wade Bugg
Andrew Crepea (Certificate of Proficiency)
Matt Elliott
Dirk Foster
Francis Garcia
Star Gibbs
Tristan Gonzales
Tim Holter
Peter Honigmann
Niko Huffman
Mikko Lindevall
Matt Nizzi
Ben Nueman
Trent Praytor
Sean Rome
Dave Senkbeil
Jon Skubis
Ryan Simmons
Ken Takahashi
Edmund Tan
Mihaly Tatar
John Wright
Yancy Jencsok