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Article: Martial arts master: Students get a 'kick' out of his class

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November 5, 2005
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When Ted Martin was 7 years old, his father introduced him to martial arts and he has never looked back. He has been training for 25 years, first becoming a black belt in Ninjitsu at age 17 and then a black belt in Tae Kwon Do at 20 (where currently he's a fourth- degree black belt and will soon be testing for his fifth-degree belt).

Martin is the owner and sensei (teacher) of the Eastern Star Martial Arts Academy in Davis Creek. The 34-year-old, who has been teaching for 12 years, originally ran the program out of the Kanawha United Presbyterian Church in Charleston, where he taught twice a

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