About Master E. Thompson

E. Thompson has traveled the world for the last 30 years, studying the various traditional arts. He had the good fortune to touch hands with many of the living masters along the way. Thompson started training in his youth with Okinawa Kenpo Karate Kobudo in Jacksonville, NC, the home of Camp Lejeune, and would continute to study the arts for the rest of his life, jumping at each chance to learn something new or improve what he already had. Thompson worked security in bars before he was even old enough to drink in one. The years of working in clubs with ”high frequencies” of incidents has given him the experience of hands-on encounters numbering literally in the thousands. Thompson had the privilege to train and be trained by some of the elite special forces because of the relationships he developed at Camp Lejeune, and he completed the police academy at the top of his class in the early 90’s. He went on to work as a skip tracer/bounty hunter before eventually making his way to Los Angeles where he would gain notoriety as a coveted celebrity security specialist. Thompson has been a personal bodyguard for many world-famous entertainers: among his list of clients are Madonna, Will Smith, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, as well as some less- public, private clients that cannot be mentioned. Thompson was inducted into the Master’s Hall of Fame for the Martial Arts in 2011.

Thompson holds Dan rankings in both Okinawan styles of Karate and instructor rankings in Kung Fu as well as Muay Thai. 
Formal training history:
Okinawa Te 2nd Dan
Okinawa Freestyle Karate 2nd Dan
Okinawa Kenpo Karate 6th Dan
Kang Chuan Do 6th Dan

Expanded Study with Experts in:
Muay Thai
Bando
Bagua
Monkey Boxing
Goju-Ryu 
Krav Maga

Expert Instructor of Specialized Professional Applications:
Commercial and Combative "Use of Force" 
Threat Assessment Procedures & Applications 

Silver Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Master’s Hall of Fame

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