When Ron Gentolizo gets done with his nine-to-five job at GE Commercial Finance in Eden Prairie he trades in his dress slacks and shirt for a traditional martial arts uniform called a Gi and gets ...

It’s the end of the Saturday morning karate class for 5- to 10 year-olds. The boys gather around their Sensei (Japanese for teacher, instructor, or “one who goes before you”) Louis “Louie” DiBiccari, ...

Locations: Eagle Valley Elementary School and Edwards Elementary School. Date opened: The club dates back to 1973 with Sensei David Johnston as its first instructor until 1980. Other instructors are ...

Sensei Ed Wojciechowski started his journey in karate nearly four decades ago not as a calling so much as a backup plan. “I was in bad shape,” Wojciechowski said. “I smoked. I drank a lot of coffee. I ...