About The Instructors...

Dr. Robert Noggle

Shodan Blackbelt

May 8, 2010

Rob began training in Yamashita Kobayashi Shorin-ryu in 2006 and earned his shodan in May 2010.  During high school and college, he trained in the Matsubayashi branch of Shorin-Ryu, and earned a brown belt (san-kyu) in 1989. During college, he also earned a green belt in Isshin-ryu and took introductory courses in Tai Chi and Western Boxing.  He is a philosophy professor at Central Michigan University.