Teaching in Phoenix since 1971
55+ years teaching martial arts in Phoenix. Defensive tactics instructor for Arizona law enforcement, the U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Army Special Forces.
BIO
Master Ken Corona has been teaching martial arts since 1971. Over more than five decades as an instructor and school owner, he has taught thousands of students and awarded over 100 black belts.
Many of his students have become instructors themselves and gone on to open schools of their own. He is, in the truest sense, a teacher's teacher — a master whose work is measured not only by his own skill, but by the skill of those he has shaped.
Master Ken Corona has been teaching martial arts since 1971. Over more than five decades as an instructor and school owner, he has taught thousands of students and awarded over 100 black belts.
Many of his students have become instructors themselves and gone on to open schools of their own. He is, in the truest sense, a teacher's teacher — a master whose work is measured not only by his own skill, but by the skill of those he has shaped.
Master Corona's studies include Judo, Aikido, and Jujitsu under the direct tutelage of Tsuneji “Tony” Sakakibara, a graduate of Japan's International Kodokan training center, as well as Sensei Robert Corrella.
He studied Hwa Rang Do under Grandmaster Dr. Joo Bang Lee, the art's founder. After an extensive full-time apprenticeship, he became one of the first Americans to receive the Master Instructor level in Hwa Rang Do.
Master Corona has served as defensive tactics trainer for the Arizona Department of Public Safety and the Phoenix, Glendale, Tolleson, Buckeye, and Tempe Police Departments. He has also served as hand-to-hand combat instructor for the United States Marine Corps and combatives instructor for U.S. Army Special Forces.
He is President and Master Instructor of CMAA Inc (Pung Wol Kwan), and continues to live and teach in Phoenix.
KARATE KIDS AZ
Karate Kids AZ is a school-sponsored martial arts program that brings Master Corona directly to your campus. Students learn the foundational skills of traditional martial arts — focus, discipline, respect, and confidence — in a structured, age-appropriate format designed to fit within the school day or after-school programming.
The same instructor trusted by Arizona law enforcement and U.S. military units teaches your students — with the patience, structure, and authenticity that only comes from more than five decades in the art.
Karate Kids AZ is a school-sponsored martial arts program that brings Master Corona directly to your campus. Students learn the foundational skills of traditional martial arts — focus, discipline, respect, and confidence — in a structured, age-appropriate format designed to fit within the school day or after-school programming.
The same instructor trusted by Arizona law enforcement and U.S. military units teaches your students — with the patience, structure, and authenticity that only comes from more than five decades in the art.
Each session emphasizes the values schools care most about: focus, self-control, respect for self and others, and the quiet confidence that comes from real skill. Physical technique is the vehicle; character is the destination.
Students learn stances, blocks, basic strikes, falling safely, partner drills, and the courtesies that make a class run — how to bow, how to listen, how to encourage a classmate. The result is a class schools can be proud to host, and that students remember long after the last belt is tied.
Service area and partner schools to be confirmed with Master Corona.
Background-checked, insured, and trained at the highest level of his art.
ADULT & LAW ENFORCEMENT
Private and small-group instruction for adults who want serious training from a master instructor. Whether you're new to martial arts or returning to disciplined practice after years away, lessons are tailored to your background, goals, and pace.
Curriculum draws from Master Corona's full lineage — traditional forms, joint manipulation, edged weapon defense, ground control, and the modern combatives developed across more than five decades of teaching.
Private and small-group instruction for adults who want serious training from a master instructor. Whether you're new to martial arts or returning to disciplined practice after years away, lessons are tailored to your background, goals, and pace.
Curriculum draws from Master Corona's full lineage — traditional forms, joint manipulation, edged weapon defense, ground control, and the modern combatives developed across more than five decades of teaching.
Master Corona has served as defensive tactics trainer for the Arizona Department of Public Safety and the Phoenix, Glendale, Tolleson, Buckeye, and Tempe Police Departments. He has also served as hand-to-hand combat instructor for the United States Marine Corps and combatives instructor for U.S. Army Special Forces.
Offerings include department-level in-service training, individual officer instruction, and training engagements covering defensive tactics, weapon retention, edged weapon defense, subject control, and ground fighting fundamentals.
Master Corona has run Sulsa Camps since the 1980's — immersive training intensives drawing on the warrior traditions at the heart of his lineage in Hwa Rang Do.
Sulsa Camps are currently paused; future cohorts will be announced as they're scheduled. Those interested in future camps are welcome to reach out.
By referral and inquiry. Available across the Phoenix metro and beyond.
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