Palm Beach Combat Hapkido is fortunate to have a wealth of instructors with over 100 years of combined martial arts experience. Many of our instructors and students hold black belts in multiple different martial arts including Tae Kwon Do, Combat Hapkido and Jiu-Jitsu.
Our instructors all share teaching responsibilities ensuring students have an opportunity to learn from instructors with different martial arts backgrounds.
Gil Levin has studied Combat Hapkido for the past nine years. He received his training under the guidance of Master Randy Kirkby. In 2005, along with Master Ramon Voils, he opened Palm Beach Combat Hapkido, in the Wellington Recreation Center, in Wellington, Florida.
Gil Levin is a strong proponent of engaging people in the martial arts who feel either too young, too old, or otherwise unfit to study the discipline of Combat Hapkido. Along with teaching self defense, Master Levin’s classes emphasize strength training, range of motion stretching and cardio advancing aerobics. He invites everyone to the class for a free introductory lesson.
In an era when role models are hard to find and heroes are nearly a thing of the past, the village of Wellington can consider itself very fortunate to call Ramon Voils, one of their own. With grace, style, wit and integrity, Ramon has instructed thousands of students in the art of self-defense at the Wellington Recreation Center. Ramon has also offered self-defense classes for women and has worked with the sheriffs department during child safety week.
Master Ron Schwartz is a highly skilled and talented instructor with a black belt in Tae Kwon Do as well as Combat Hapkido. Students attending classes when he is teaching are gifted with learning new and practical techniques in striking, kicking and joint manipulation.
Master Randy Kirkby has over 30 years of Martial Arts experience. He studied karate while in the US Air Force in 1968 and was on the college Tae Kwon Do team while pursing a B.S. degree in Engineering Technology at Buffalo State University.
From 1991 to 1996, Master Kirkby (in partnership with Grandmaster John Pellegrini) was President and Chief Instructor of American Tae Kwon Do & Hapkido Academy’s. He holds Master Instructor Certification in Tae Kwon Do and Hapkido and Instructor certification in Tai Chi.
He has been instructing Tae Kwon Do for the last 20 years and Hapkido for the last 10 years. In May of 1995, he was inducted into the World Martial Arts Hall of Fame. In 1996, Master Kirkby received a Master’s Instructor Certificate from Grandmaster In Sun Seo, President of the World Kido Federation.
Master Kirkby has appeared as a guest on TV and radio programs to educate the community on self-defense issues.