"If karate was easy everyone would be a Black Belt"
Hanshi Darren Cox

Instructors

MASTER INSTRUCTOR:

Mr. Darren Cox Chief Instructor & President

Mr. Darren Cox holds a 7th degree Black belt and title of Hanshi in KENPO KARATE.

He is the President and Head Instructor of All-Star Karate, Inc. Mr. Cox has been studying martial arts for 26 years and has been an instructor for 18 years. Mr. Cox has a mixed martial arts background which includes: Ju-Jitsu, Wado- Ryu, Ed Parker Kenpo, Tae Kwando, and numerous forms of Hand To Hand Combat and is a Master Weapons Trainer in 13 different weapons.

Mr. Cox also has extensive competition experience both nationally and internationally and currently holds 8 Sport Karate World Titles with the National Blackbelt League. He is also an experienced competition coach who has coached numerous national competitors to World Champion titles. He also host’s and promotes the Salt City Internationals, the southwest’s most premier martial arts event. Offering black belt prize money, a Super Show finale, 22 Underbelt Grand Champion prizes and specialized divisions you can’t see anywhere else. In 2006, he hosted 750 competitors at the Salt Palace Convention Center and the Salt Lake Plaza Hotel. This is a NBL National, Rocky Mountain Regional, Excel Karate League sanctioned event. At the 2005 Super Grand’s Word Games, Mr. Cox was awarded the prestigious title of “Promoter of the year”. He is very proud of his event and credit’s a lot of the success to his close-knit All-Star family: students, parents and friends. To find out more about the Salt City Internationals click here.

During his years as an instructor, Mr. Cox has also been actively developing and implementing, several specialized programs dealing with issues such as bully-proofing and programs for kids with A.D.D. & A.D.H.D. These programs have been designed with the help of registered, practicing schoolteachers and Black Belt experts. His instructors teach them in area public schools as well as in his classes.

SENSEI (Senior Instructor): MR. AARON BREINHOLT

PROGRAM DIRECTOR/ INSTRUCTORS: BECKY A. JENSEN

Becky Jensen has been a student of All-Star Karate for 7 years. She has a martial arts background in Kempo Kung Fu, Yang Style Tai Chi and Hsing-I. She has been the Program Director for the past 4 and a half years. Her duties include tuition payments, student sign ups,ordering and sales of equipment and uniforms, scheduling and setting up birthday parties, scheduling private lessons with instructors,coordinatind all belt promotions,Demos and in school tournaments. She is a liaison between Parents, Student and Administration.

JR. LEADERSHIP BLACKBELT Team:

Krista Perkins
Devin Holman
Corum Jensen
Gabby Turner
Steven Taylor
Emilee Taylor
Evan Makin
Natalie VanTongren