Kyo Sa Holland Ahern, currently a first degree black belt in the Korean art of Tang Soo Do, formally started his martial arts training in 1998 at the age of 8 years old. In 2003, he began studying Tang Soo Do at MTSDA and received his Cho Dan under Master Steven Voelker in 2007. Shortly after, he began teaching the children’s classes at the very same Dojang where he received his black belt. Holland has crossed trained in several different martial arts including Okinawan Karate, Jujitsu, and Capoeira, including the Kempo Karate system under Master Keith Tubman.

Constantly picked on and bullied at school for being the tall and skinny boy in class, Holland started martial arts as a means to defend himself when the harassment at school eventually turned into physical threats. As his training progressed however, Holland found that martial arts not only taught him how to protect himself, it gave him the confidence and the discipline he needed to stand up against his harassers. To this day, Holland instills these principles among all of his students.

Even as he trains and teaches today, Holland considers himself as a warrior, and as a teacher. He is the instructor of the Combat Tang Soo Do Class, an art which he created solely for the purpose of self-defense. Along with his primary art, Holland also instructs the Extreme Kicking, Weapons, Boot Camp Fitness, and MMA classes at VSMA. Holland has experience teaching women’s self-defense classes, as well as self-defense courses for college-bound students. Holland loves teaching students of all ages, and enjoys passing down his knowledge of the martial arts to students who are willing to train hard.