Mr. Steve Ashcraft has a long list of accomplishments in the martial arts and the kickboxing areas. He was in the national Ratings for point karate for five years. He was in the national Ratings in Backbelt Magazine for point karate. He was in the top twenty of the Star Rating system from the years 1981 to 2006. This is the longest anyone has ever been in the world ratings for kickboxing. He had the fastest knock out in history with 7 seconds into the first round of a kickboxing match. He appeared on the NBC show Sports Spectacular where he fought for Chuck Norris on the Dallas Gladiators team, which was part of the Karate International Council of Kickboxing organization.

He also appeared on Wide World of Sports, which aired on ABC, where he tied for first place twice in a kata competition at the U.S. Karate Championships. He and 14 of his blackbelts starred on the show Real People where they broke the world record in house demolition. He is in the USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame, along with his schools, Ashcraft's Cardio Kickboxing and Tae Kwon Do Studios. He is a former Texas Welterweight Champion in kickboxing, Texas Middleweight champion in kickboxing, Southwest welterweight Champion in kickboxing, and Southern United States Champion of kickboxing. Howard Hanson, the President of WKA, sanctioned all these titles.

He was the first person to start 2 man katas in competition along with his partner, Grand Master Alvin Francis. He has recently been inducted into the Universal Martial Arts Hall of Fame and he was the 2010 Man of the Year for the Universal Martial Arts Hall of Fame. He currently owns and operates Ashcraft’s Martial Arts Studio and has a TV show in San Antonio, Texas called Kickin' It with Steve Ashcraft. It is all about the martial arts and is the only show about martial arts in the state of Texas. Mr. Ashcraft is currently a 7th Degree Blackbelt in the Tae kwon Do. He has worked with the FBI out of Camp Bullis, Texas, and has also worked as a bodyguard to the stars, some of which include Willie Nelson, Bono of U2, and Sherman Hensley who starred as George Jefferson on the hit show, The Jefferson's. Mr. Ashcraft can be reached at (210) 344-4272.

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