About the Instructor
Mr. Troy Cheatwood started to learn Martial Arts at The American Black Belt Association in 1972.
Troy kickboxed in the late 70s and 80s, was 3 time Oklahoma kickboxing Champion, but going to school and raising a family didn’t leave much time to compete. His two youngest boys developed an interest in karate in the late 80s and then Troy began to compete again in the 90s on the NBL and SKI circuit, never being rated lower than 8th in the World, He was rated number 2 in the world, in Continuous Sparring as a Light Heavyweight in 1996, In February of 1997 he suffered a catastrophic injury to his eye, but still ended 1997 rated as the number 3 Heavyweight in Point Sparring, In 1998 he ended his last year of competition as the 4th rated heavyweight in Point Sparring. In January of 1999 Troy retired from competition and opened Cheatwood’s Family Martial Arts in Moore April of that year.
Mr. Cheatwood has enhanced the personal development aspects of the program by implementing success skills and attitudes, and added many goal-setting and personal development elements. Mr. Cheatwood continues to expand the curriculum to keep it at “state–of-the-art” and implements new teaching techniques to accelerate a student’s progress, while reinforcing the traditional philosophies of honest, knowledge, strength, courtesy, integrity, perseverance, and self-control. At Master Club level Mr. Cheatwood teaches weapons, boxing, kickboxing, and EXtreme Self-defense.