Mr. Troy Cheatwood started to learn Martial Arts at The American Black Belt Association in 1972.

troy_cheatwoodTroy 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, and won the 1996 NBL Silver Medalists in Continuous 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.