Asatida Kevin Thompson Jr.

Karate is the family business.

Training since age two, a black belt at twelve, and now the CEO and Head Instructor of the school his father opened in 1981. Still competing, now for Team USA.

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Asatida

Kevin Thompson Jr.

GoldPan-Am Open div.

2ndPan-Am Grand Champ.

#2NASKA open kata

#4NASKA trad. Japanese

USAWKC Team '26

12Black belt age

USABermudaShakil Warriors

Road to Spain.

The documentary series following the run to Worlds, on @thelife_ofkev.

June

Qualified

WKC Nationals: Team USA, traditional hard-style forms and point sparring, −75 kg

Fall

Training block

Fight camp, forms work and the daily check-ins

Oct 23

WKC World Championships

Cádiz, Spain, October 23 to November 1

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Competition

Team USA

WKC Worlds, Cádiz 2026: traditional hard-style forms and point sparring, −75 kg

Pan-American Internationals, 2026

Open division champion

Grand Championship, on stage

Runner-up, Pan-American Internationals 2026

NASKA rankings

No. 2 traditional open kata, No. 4 traditional Japanese division

National titles

Multiple national karate championships

Rank & training

10th-degree black belt

American Karate-Dō

Black belt at 12

Training since age 2

Aiki-Jitsu

Teaches a system blending American Karate-Dō and Aiki-Jitsu

Kevin with his medal at the Pan-American Internationals

Shakil Warriors.

Grandmaster Kevin Thompson Sr. opened Shakil's School of Martial Arts in 1981. Kev returned after college in 2019 to lead it as CEO, Head Director and Head Instructor.

Today the school runs dojo classes, after-school and summer programs, a national competition team, tournaments, galas and community service. Training focuses on discipline, self-defense, conditioning, mindset and real-world confidence.

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